Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for March, 2007
Progressive Rock: The 7 Samurai - The Ultimate Epic
31 March, 2007 (8 comments)This has somehow slipped past my radar, but let it be known now that last October the music labels Colossus and Musea presented a progressive rock album called The 7 More...
Hitoshi Ueki dies
29 March, 2007 (1 comment)Japanese comedian Hitoshi Ueki passed away on Tuesday at the age of 80. The cause of his death was a heart failure. Although well known across Japan, Ueki is less More...
Introducing the Akira Kurosawa Discussion Forums
29 March, 2007 (6 comments)If you glimpse at the website menu, you will notice that there is a new link as the very rightmost entry on the list. It is titled “Forums“, and as More...
Something Like an Update
28 March, 2007 (10 comments)I have finished an update regarding the website design. Now, you may ask “why bother?” or “what was wrong with the old design?”. Well, there was nothing terribly wrong with More...
97 years
23 March, 2007 (9 comments)Were Akira Kurosawa alive today on March 23rd 2007, he would celebrate his 97th birthday. This means that in three years’ time we should expect quite some renewed interest towards More...
News from BFI
14 March, 2007 (5 comments)Thanks to Master Thief, I have corrected an error on the “Akira Kurosawa’s Movies on DVD” page — the BFI release of High and Low is 2.35:1, not 2.55:1 More...
About unscheduled downtime
13 March, 2007 (2 comments)Due to my current military service, I haven’t been able to monitor my websites as much as I would like to. However, the automatic monitoring systems that I use have More...
Sanshiro Sugata II in May by Eastern Eye
11 March, 2007 (5 comments)May 2nd, 2007 will see the Region 4 DVD release of Sanshiro Sugata II by Eastern Eye. Unless they have completely messed up the release, this DVD should become the More...
Seven Samurai or the Rites of Spring of Japanese Soul
8 March, 2007 (3 comments)Pardon me for not actually having had the time to read through the article in question, but as far as I can see an entry titled Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai or More...
A short Throne of Blood article
8 March, 2007There is a short but relatively readable Throne of Blood article at the Daily Vanguard. The text, which attempts to quickly answer the question “why should you care about a 50-year-old adaptation of a 450 year old play”, is tied to a screening of the film at the Clinton Street Theater, Portland (OR, USA).
More “lost” making of Ran footage
2 March, 2007 (2 comments)Another of those somewhat cryptic messages have been posted on YouTube showing some of the unreleased “making of” footage shot during the filming of Ran. See here.