Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for February, 2008
May 23 DVD release for Morita’s Sanjuro
29 February, 2008 (1 comment)According to the official website, the DVD for Yoshimitsu Morita’s remake of Sanjuro will be out on 23 May, 2008. The release will have two different versions, a basic DVD More...
New website look
23 February, 2008 (20 comments)Although I was pretty happy with the design that I came up with about a year ago, in the long run it turned out to be extremely impractical and, let’s More...
Blogged: Detailed transcriptions of Kurosawa’s movies
21 February, 2008 (16 comments)Kurosawa continues to inspire people in many interesting ways. One of the most fascinating examples of this that I have seen in the recent past I stumbled upon this morning More...
Teruyo Nogami’s memoirs hit the silver screen in Berlin
14 February, 2008 (26 comments)Yoji Yamada’s Kabei - Our Mother, which is based on the war time memoirs of Teruyo Nogami, got its first foreign screening at the Berling Film Festival on Wednesday. The More...
Kon Ichikawa dies at 92
14 February, 2008 (2 comments)Legendary Japanese film maker Kon Ichikawa died yesterday of pneumonia in Tokyo. He was 92. The passing away of Ichikawa, who was perhaps best known abroad for The Burmese Harp More...
The Hidden Fortress has full trailer, becomes “The Last Princess”
10 February, 2008 (13 comments)Shinji Higuchi’s remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress now has a full trailer, available on the official website, as well as at YouTube. The trailer seems to put into question More...
Review: “Akira Kurosawa - Interviews”
2 February, 2008Published last December, Akira Kurosawa: Interviews is the latest volume in the University Press of Mississippi film book series Conversations with Filmmakers. It is also the first English language book More...