Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for July, 2007
First teaser trailer for the Tsubaki Sanjuro remake
29 July, 2007 (5 comments)The first teaser trailer for the new remake of Tsubaki Sanjuro has been made available online. The 30 second clip shows a few scenes that are familiar from Kurosawa’s original. More...
Akira Kurosawa and a 1955 alternate history
16 July, 2007 (1 comment)Someone at the soc.history.what-if newsgroup by the name of Sydney Webb has posted a “what if” scenario on Kurosawa in 1955, the point (if any) of which I don’t quite More...
3rd Tsubaki Sanjuro poster
13 July, 2007 (1 comment)The official website for the forthcoming Japanese Tsubaki Sajuro remake has posted a third poster. This time the poster depicts Mutsuta’s wife and daughter on the background, with a somewhat Mifune-like expression on the lead actor Yuji Oda’s face. Whether he gets it right is up to you to decide… Once again, thanks for the heads-up go to Twitch.
Blogged: National cinemas (plus Yoshimoto)
10 July, 2007 (4 comments)At the Scopophilia part of his personal blog, Kikuchiyo, a globetrotting English teacher in Japan, has raised the question “what is national cinema” and what is it especially in the More...