Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for May, 2008
Daily Yomimuri review of ‘The Last Princess’
9 May, 2008Daily Yomimuri Online has a review of the new Hidden Fortress remake The Last Princess. Unlike the Mark Schilling review that I linked to earlier today, the Daily Yomimuri piece, More...
Mark Schilling reviews ‘The Last Princess’
9 May, 2008The Japan Times’s Mark Schilling, who has written extensively on modern Japanese film, gave us the first verdict of last year’s remake of Sanjuro, and he is at it again More...
AK Film Club: ‘Drunken Angel’ for June, other films to follow
8 May, 2008 (4 comments)Although we have yet but scratched the surface of Rashomon with our first ever Film Club discussion series, it is already time to start thinking about the next films so More...
Forum issues (please read)
5 May, 2008Just a heads-up: some legitimate posts have recently been caught by the forum spam filter and been marked as spam, therefore not making the posts appear at all. Mainly long More...
Toho sues Cosmo… yet again
2 May, 2008 (1 comment)Toho has reportedly sued Cosmo for $130,000, this time due to the company manufacturing three classic non-Kurosawa films that Toho holds the copyright for. Earlier this year, Toho hit Cosmo More...
USC screening of The Last Princess
2 May, 2008 (2 comments)Japan Zone and Tokyo Graph have short articles on the recent University of Southern California screening of The Last Princess, a remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress that opens in More...
Online Film Club #1: Rashomon
1 May, 2008I think that May 1st has by now started everywhere on the globe, and has in fact already finished in many places, so let me now announce the first session More...