Variety reports that the often mentioned Hollywood remake of High and Low is once again moving forward, with Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, most recently Charlie More...
This year’s Akira Kurosawa Lifetime Achievement Award has been given to Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov and Chen Kaige at the Tokyo Film Festival. The recipients were chosen by a panel that included costume designer and Akira Kurosawa’s daughter Kazuko Kurosawa. Variety has more about the recipients’ reactions.
UK’s Optimum Releasing is putting out a new Region 2 edition of Rashomon, coming out on October 13. Amazon.co.uk takes pre-orders (£11.98), while the film is also available from Optimum’s More...
A new Japanese DVD release of After the Rain appears to be on its way, with Amazon.co.jp indicating an October 24 release. In case you have no idea what I More...
What is perhaps the best of a sorry lot, Kino International’s Dersu Uzala DVD (Region 1) will be re-released on December 9 as part of a “Great Directors” box set. More...
October’s here, and I would therefore like to invite you all to the sixth edition of our monthly Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club. This month, we will be facing what More...
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