Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for July, 2006
Blogged: Yojimbo opening shots
24 July, 2006Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog has a new entry on the opening shots of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Do take a look.
Akira Kurosawa exhibiton in Tokyo
22 July, 2006An exhibition of Akira Kurosawa’s paintings opened yesterday at the Meguro Gajoen centre in Tokyo. The event, which lasts until the 13th of August this year, is titled “Hundred-stepped Stairway More...
Donnie Yen on the state of Seven Samurai remake
21 July, 2006Malaysia Star quotes Donnie Yen, who in a press conference yesterday confirmed that the Weinstein Company’s project for a Hollywood remake of Seven Samurai is still in its very early More...
A Japanese “Sanjuro” remake on its way
13 July, 2006 (1 comment)The Japan film news blog Ryuganji reported today that a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 film Tsubaki Sanjuro (or “Sanjuro” in English) is being prepared in Japan. The film, which More...
Pre-1953 Japanese films are in public domain
12 July, 2006 (3 comments)News are emerging that a Tokyo District court has ruled all pre-1953 Japanese films to be in the public domain. Paramount Pictures was contesting this based on a 2004 ruling More...
Blogged: Oddest director/actor pairs
12 July, 2006The film blog Cinematical has run an article about the seven oddest director actor combos. Akira Kurosawa makes the list with his Rhapsody in August star Richard Gere.