Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for February, 2007
‘Sanjuro’ (2007 remake) trailer on March 3rd
28 February, 2007 (4 comments)According to Variety, the first trailer for Yoshimitsu Morita’s Sanjuro will be playing during screenings of the Genghis Khan biopic ‘The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and More...
DVD Times reviews the Artificial Eye release of ‘Dersu Uzala’
28 February, 2007 (9 comments)Noel Megahey at DVD Times has reviewed the region-free release of Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala by Artificial Eye. While I personally think that the film review makes a little bit More...
Akira Kurosawa and the Academy Awards
26 February, 2007 (28 comments)With the Academy Awards handed out yesterday (what do you think of the results?), and Scorsese finally getting that prestigious 13.5 inch gold-plated statuette, I thought that it might be More...
A Jim Sheridan remake of ‘Ikiru’ for 2008?
25 February, 2007 (12 comments)There is an IMDb page for a 2008 Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot) movie that appears to be a remake of Kurosawa’s Ikiru. I More...
DVD section finished (sort of)
25 February, 2007 (2 comments)I’ve done quite a bit for this website today, although most of it has happened behind the scenes and won’t be visible to you, the visitor. However, I did finally More...
Good and Bad news regarding the “Akira Kurosawa’s Paintings” page
25 February, 2007 (3 comments)There is a series of good and bad news regarding the Akira Kurosawa’s Paintings section on this website: Good: Some time ago I was contacted by HoriPro Inc., the company More...
Website update
25 February, 2007The machinery behind this website has been updated (sorry if you tried to access the site during this time and received errors). I’m doing my best to make sure that everything functions as it should, but if you see something that looks odd, please drop me a line (the comment section here is fine).
Globe and Mail’s review of ‘Waiting on the Weather’
25 February, 2007 (2 comments)Gail Singer has reviewed Teruyo Nogami’s Waiting on the Weather for the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail. Singer is positive about the book, concluding that this “addition to the vast library of interpretation of Kurosawa makes a nice teatime break.” For the whole review, see globeandmail.com.
French High Definition ‘Ran’ in March
23 February, 2007 (40 comments)Studio Canal seems to be about to release a High Definition (HD) DVD of Kurosawa’s Ran on March 5th, 2007. I may be wrong here, but this might just be More...
Region 4 releases for ‘Madadayo’ and ‘The Quiet Duel’
23 February, 2007 (4 comments)Master Thief has kindly brought to my attention the fact that March 7th, 2007 will see the release of two region 4 Akira Kurosawa DVDs from the Australian company Madman More...
Three Kurosawa posts by Wabisabi
20 February, 2007 (13 comments)Reading Wabisabi’s latest Kurosawa related entries at her blog Beniguma, I just realised that I didn’t link to his earlier post on The Bad Sleep Well. I should have, as More...
About March 2007 (less frequent AKN&I updates)
17 February, 2007 (4 comments)This January I finished my Master’s degree. In case you are interested, I did an MA in English Studies, specialising on theoretical linguistics and especially so syntactic theory, but also More...
Samurai 7 at iTunes
17 February, 2007 (4 comments)FUNimation, the American distributor of many Japanese anime series, has made a deal with iTunes, bringing much of their content available for download. Included is Samurai 7, the animated TV More...
‘Making of Kagemusha’, part 2
13 February, 2007Continuing from where the video I linked to a few days ago ended, this YouTube video serves as the second part in the ‘Making of Kagemusha’. I have no idea how many of these will ultimately appear on the site.
A Making of ‘Kagemusha’ film on YouTube
10 February, 2007Someone has posted a short film on YouTube about the making of Kagemusha. I don’t really have much more to say about it, except that I think that I have More...
Download Rashomon at the Internet Archive
6 February, 2007 (30 comments)As reported earlier, Japanese movies made before 1953 are in public domain. The Internet Archive, which archives Internet and multimedia resources, has now added a downloadable version of Kurosawa’s Rashomon. More...
Two Rashomon-influenced movies for 2007
3 February, 2007This morning I stumbled upon two movies that are in no way connected to one another, except for both taking their inspiration from Kurosawa’s Rashomon. One is an art film More...
Today’s Miscellany
1 February, 2007This is just a short note to mention that the Japundit blog mentions a list of 100 thinkers and visionaries that the Japanese have recently voted the best in an More...