Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for December, 2007
Hidden Fortress remake poster and website
21 December, 2007 (3 comments)The first poster for the Shinji Higuchi directed remake of The Hidden Fortress, set for release in Japan on May 10, 2008, has been posted online. As a fresh, and More...
Akira Kurosawa: Interviews published
11 December, 2007 (7 comments)University Press of Mississippi’s book Akira Kurosawa: Interviews has been published and is now available for purchase. The listed retail price is $20, but Amazon.com currently sells the 224 page More...
Japan Times review of Morita’s Sanjuro
9 December, 2007Japan Times has a review of Tsubaki Sanjuro by Mark Schilling. Schilling gives the movie 3 out of 5 stars, summing it up with: ‘A four-word review of “Tsubaki Sanjuro” More...
Akira Kurosawa, the Band
4 December, 2007 (1 comment)Apparently, there is a metal band that goes by the name Akira Kurosawa. Hailing from Victoria, Australia, they have a MySpace page with three songs and two YouTube live videos More...
Bringing back the dead (oddities in the forums)
3 December, 2007Our member Sanjuro mentioned that some of the older posts he had written had not showed up on the forums at all. He actually told me about this earlier — More...
Tsubaki Sanjuro: first review
2 December, 2007 (7 comments)Yoshimitsu Morita’s remake of Sanjuro opened in Japan yesterday, and Daily Yomiuri online has already posted a review. As the title of the review (”Kurosawa remake avoids worst scenario”) suggests, More...