Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for January, 2008
“In a Bamboo Grove” on BBC Radio
26 January, 2008Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s In a Bamboo Grove has been dramatised for the radio by the BBC. The short story, of course, worked as the primary source text for Kurosawa’s Rashomon. I More...
New region 4 Kurosawa from Madman
24 January, 2008 (5 comments)As Master Thief pointed out a few days ago in the comments to Amazon’s new Kurosawa offerings, the Australian Madman Entertainment’s Eastern Eye series put out a host of new More...
Amazon’s new Kurosawa offerings
22 January, 2008 (5 comments)The Amazon.com exclusive Criterion Collection Director Series: Akira Kurosawa that I wrote about recently turns out to consist of Criterion’s new version of Yojimbo, Seven Samurai and Sanjuro (as well More...
Two new Rashomon releases
21 January, 2008January 7 quietly saw the All Regions DVD release of Rashomon by a company called Triad Productions. Based on the item description on the Amazon website, according to which the More...
Postwar Kurosawa reviews
14 January, 2008 (3 comments)Reviews of the Postwar Kurosawa set have started to fly in. As usual, DVD Talk gives us a good general overview of the box set, while the DVD Beaver review More...
Hidden Fortress remake has a teaser trailer
12 January, 2008 (1 comment)The Hidden Fortress remake now has a teaser trailer that can be viewed on the official website. It of course doesn’t reveal all that much about the finer details, but More...
An Indian Kurosawa box set to be released
9 January, 2008The Indian film company Palador Pictures has announced the release of an Akira Kurosawa DVD Box Set comprising five of the director’s best known films. The box set is exclusively More...