Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for November, 2006
De Laatste Held, pt.2 (a Dutch Akira Kurosawa documentary)
29 November, 2006Ten days ago I reported about the first part of a Dutch Akira Kurosawa documentary, which had been uploaded to Google Video. The second part is now also available. See here.
Fox’s Kagemusha release is a shorter cut
27 November, 2006 (2 comments)As most of you probably know, Kagemusha comes in a number of lengths, most importantly the original Japanese 179 minute version, and the so-called “International Cut” that runs for 162 More...
Rotten Tomatoes film club discusses Sanjuro
27 November, 2006This is just a heads-up to let you know that some people at the Rotten Tomatoes film forums are running a film club, and Sanjuro is next week’s film. The More...
Article on Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’
26 November, 2006The PassionForCinema blog has published a nice review of Kurosawa’s High and Low, written by someone by the pseudonym t!. There are some nice observations there, and it reads well. Especially recommended if you have not seen the movie yet, and are thinking which Kurosawa film to watch next!
Fumio Hayasaka’s Seven Samurai and Rashomon recordings in MP3
25 November, 2006 (4 comments)Like some of the online streams of Kurosawa’s movies that I have liked to recently, the following will be something that is strictly speaking not entirely legal. Bear that in More...
Kurosawa on XBox 360
23 November, 2006 (5 comments)Microsoft’s new gaming console XBox 360 apparently comes with an online downloads store, one part of which is the so-called XBox Live Video service that allows users to rent digital More...
Criterion working on 6 more Kurosawa titles?
20 November, 2006 (1 comment)I was just reading through last month’s posts on the IMDb’s Kurosawa forum, and saw a link to this Criterion Collection discussion forum, which lists the titles expected to be More...
DVD Times reviews Optimum’s ‘Ran’
20 November, 2006 (5 comments)Kevin Gilvear at DVD Times has reviewed Optimum’s Region 2 release of Ran, which is due out on November 26th. Rather than spending any time with the movie itself, More...
A Dutch Akira Kurosawa documentary
19 November, 2006 (1 comment)Google Video has the first part of a Dutch documentary called De Laatste Held (”The Last Hero”), which looks at some of Akira Kurosawa’s films from the background of the More...
Akira Kurosawa News and Information downtime
14 November, 2006Update: We are back up. The move did not go entirely as planned, and downtime in fact lasted for slightly over three hours, but all in all everything looks fine More...
Sanjuro press conference
14 November, 2006 (7 comments)Toho held a press conference on Sunday for the new Sanjuro remake, which has already started filming and is to be released in Japan in December 2007. Very little new More...
Rashomon, Sanjuro and Yojimbo at vidiLife.com
14 November, 2006Someone has uploaded Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Sanjuro and Yojimbo to vidiLife, a service much like Youtube. While the earlier Google Video versions of Sanshiro Sugata and Rashomon may or may More...
Donal Richie’s films screened in Tokyo
10 November, 2006If you happen to live in Tokyo, the SuperDeluxe in Nishi-Azabu (Minato-ku) is going to be screening Donald Richie’s short works under the title Japanese Cinema Eclectics: Donald Richie — More...
Kurosawa and animals
9 November, 2006 (4 comments)Now, this may go somewhat beyond our usual coverage, but yesterday I found this rather interesting blog entry on Rose’s Crafty McGee blog, which is mainly about arts, crafts and More...
Region 2 ‘Ran’ released on November 20th in the UK
7 November, 2006 (11 comments)Optimum Releasing is putting out a new region 2 DVD version of Ran on November 20 this year. MovieMail.co.uk indicates that the double disc release will include the documentary “A.K.” by Chris Marker, but does not seem to have any of the other extras present in the region 1 Criterion Collection DVD.
Article: Movies Akira Kurosawa Saw
5 November, 2006 (2 comments)There is an excellent and very interesting post at lady_wakasa’s blog, basically taking Something Like an Autobiography (Kurosawa’s autobiography, as you all know) and chronologically listing the films that the mentions up until the age of 19. The resulting list is one of the most interesting things I have seen for a long time!
Information about the Cinema Reserve (R2) edition of Kagemusha
4 November, 200620th Century Fox is putting out a new region 2 release of Kagemusha under their ‘Cinema Reserve’ series. The double DVD is to be released on November 27. The More...
Article: Pluralism - Rashomon and Contested Conceptions of Criminality
2 November, 2006Update (November 9): The body of the essay has now been changed and corresponds with the abstract. Do take a look if you are interested. Through the Legal Theory Blog More...