Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for March, 2008
The Last Princess, plus more remakes in the horizon
29 March, 2008 (1 comment)Nikkei News has an article on The Last Princess, which as most readers should by now know is a remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to be released in Japan More...
Toho sues Cosmo over Kurosawa DVDs
20 March, 2008 (1 comment)According to Variety, Toho has thrown a $1.2 million lawsuit at Cosmo Coordinate that manufactured and sold budget versions of Kurosawa’s DVDs until the court ruling last year degreed that More...
Second teaser trailer for The Last Princess
18 March, 2008 (1 comment)The second teaser trailer for Shinji Higuchi’s remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, renamed The Last Princess, has been made available on the updated official website. The trailer is also More...
John Fusco on the ‘Seven Samurai’ remake
18 March, 2008 (3 comments)Screenwriter John Fusco has talked briefly to SciFi Wire about the Seven Samurai remake that he is currently working on under the Weinstein Co. He is quoted in the article More...
Akemi Negishi passes away
18 March, 2008The Japanese actress Akemi Negishi died of cancer in Kawasaki on March 11 at the age of 73. Negishi first came into international prominence through Josef von Strinberg’s 1953 More...
AK100 has a website
14 March, 2008 (13 comments)Some time ago I mentioned the “AK100 Project” initiative, which is set to begin later this year in order to celebrate and remember Kurosawa through “exhibitions of Kurosawa’s work, newly More...
The Last Princess theme song announced
14 March, 2008 (1 comment)Famed Japanese rocker Tomoyasu Hotei, RnB singer Kreva and bassist Seiji Kameda (of the band Tokyo Jihen) have been announced as working on the theme song for Shinji Higuchi’s remake More...
Tokyo event with Nogami and Richie
14 March, 2008 (2 comments)Those of you in Tokyo at the end of the month may not want to miss an event that the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan is organizing on the 31st More...
Toru Takemitsu documentary
14 March, 2008 (1 comment)A documentary on the soundtrack work of Toru Takemitsu has appeared on YouTube. You can watch the first part here, and follow the “Related videos” links to continue with parts More...
Copyrights for Kurosawa’s scripts sold to a third party
2 March, 2008 (1 comment)While trying to find more information about the recent press announcement regarding unfinished Kurosawa footage, I stumbled upon a Japan Today article from December 29 last year. The article in More...
Unfinished footage by Kurosawa to be released
2 March, 2008 (2 comments)The Screen Daily correspondent Jason Gray writes in his blog about a Kurosawa Production press conference, according to which footage from an unfinished 1983 documentary by Kurosawa, as well as More...
Beastie Boys Kurosawa
1 March, 2008 (9 comments)Criterion’s February 2008 newsletter has a “top ten Criterions” list from the Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch. Four of the ten films on his list are Kurosawa titles, with Seven More...