Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for October, 2006
AKN&I gets a new design
31 October, 2006 (3 comments)Tired of the old baby-blue design that this website had, I spent a day brainstorming, Photoshopping and looking at other people’s blogs. By the end of the day I had More...
Forman and Ichikawa receive the Akira Kurosawa Award
30 October, 2006Since 2004, the Tokyo International Film Festival has included, among its other awards, the Akira Kurosawa Award. The award is given to to film directors and producers who have through More...
Article on ‘The Bad Sleep Well’
20 October, 2006There is an interesting little article at The Indigestible on Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. It makes a curious suggestion that the film could be seen as “a bizarre More...
Details for Criterion’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro
18 October, 2006 (2 comments)We have not yet properly managed to get over the brilliance of Criterion’s Seven Samurai, and now the company is putting out information about their upcoming Yojimbo and Sanjuro More...
DVD Times: Criterion’s Seven Samurai set
17 October, 2006My personal DVD website of choice, DVD Times, has published a review of Criterion’s Seven Samurai, and like all the reviews before it praises the DVD set as not More...
Public Domain Kurosawa Films Available at Google Video
7 October, 2006Update: These films are now available with English subtitles. Some of you may remember my earlier post about pre-1953 Japanese films being in public domain. While I am still a More...
Picture: Toshiro Mifune’s Autograph
6 October, 2006While doing my regular checks of the Yahoo! Japan Auctions, I stumbled on this item that sells a promotional picture from Red Beard with Toshiro Mifune’s autograph on it. It looks pretty great, in fact. Were it poster size, I might in fact have bid on it.
Article: Bidding for Items in Yahoo! Japan Auctions
6 October, 2006I have written a short article for my general blog about the services that let you bid on Yahoo! Japan Auctions even when you live outside of Japan and don’t speak a word of Japanese. In case some of you might be interested, take a look here: Bidding in Yahoo! Japan Auctions from Outside of Japan.
Article on Rashomon
5 October, 2006Charlie Thomason at Cinema Noir has posted an article about Rashomon, which is well written and introduces the film nicely. Do take a look.
Kurosawa Article: Red Beard (plus Ikiru)
3 October, 2006 (4 comments)There is a rather good piece written by Ganesh at Brooklyn Masala about Red Beard (Akahige). Do take a look: link Update: And I thought I already linked to this one, but it seems I didn’t: here is Ganesh’s earlier article on Ikiru. Enjoy!
Article: Tetsuya Nakadai
3 October, 2006Chuck Stephens has written a nice article on Tetsuya Nakadai’s career. Although the entry is dated August 14, this is the first time I see it, and so here is the link now: Tetsuya Nakadai.