Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for the 'Kurosawa Articles' Category
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...
Blogged: National cinemas (plus Yoshimoto)
10 July, 2007 (4 comments)At the Scopophilia part of his personal blog, Kikuchiyo, a globetrotting English teacher in Japan, has raised the question “what is national cinema” and what is it especially in the More...
Blogged: Ikiru teaches through the mimesis of learning
4 June, 2007 (1 comment)Marc Rebillet at the Classics Revisited blog has put forward the idea that Kurosawa’s Ikiru differs from the rest of his works in that it allows us to observe characters More...
Blogged: Killing in Tarkovsky and Kurosawa
25 May, 2007 (1 comment)There is a post comparing some scenes of killing in Tarkovsky and Kurosawa. I won’t go into details, as I’m travelling, and don’t really have much time on the computer at the moment. So, you will need to check out the post all by yourself.
A Dersu Uzala review
22 April, 2007There is a rather generic Dersu Uzala review, indeed almost a description, over at RussiaBlog.org. I’m posting a link here for completeness’ sake.
“Kurosawa Gets It”
19 April, 2007 (2 comments)Grubby over at the blog Skreak! has written a short piece (or more like a thought) that briefly compares the concept of “living life” as portrayed in Ikiru and the More...
Blog Article: ‘The Bad Sleep Well’
18 April, 2007 (1 comment)Ben Nuckols at “The Ill-Informed Gadfly” has responded textually to Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. For the blog article, see here.
A Kurosawa bio
18 April, 2007To mark the Akira Kurosawa Film Series currently screened in Cairo, Egypt, the Daily Star Egypt has published a short bio and intro to Kurosawa’s life and works. Perhaps it is more for those readers who are after an introduction to Kurosawa, than for our more regular visitors and contributors.
A shot analysis from Seven Samurai
2 April, 2007 (2 comments)Pacze Moj over at a blog called Critical Culture has posted a relatively good short analysis of some important shots from Seven Samurai. The comments there are also well worth the read!
Seven Samurai or the Rites of Spring of Japanese Soul
8 March, 2007 (3 comments)Pardon me for not actually having had the time to read through the article in question, but as far as I can see an entry titled Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai or More...
Three Kurosawa posts by Wabisabi
20 February, 2007 (13 comments)Reading Wabisabi’s latest Kurosawa related entries at her blog Beniguma, I just realised that I didn’t link to his earlier post on The Bad Sleep Well. I should have, as More...
Article: Senseis and samurais - the gory films of Akira Kurosawa
19 January, 2007Written in connection with the current Akira Kurosawa retrospective in Santa Monica, USA, the following article published in the Daily Trojan is a brief look at the depiction of war More...
Article: Kurosawa’s Red Harvests
12 January, 2007 (1 comment)The online edition of Tuesday’s New York Sun has a two-page article on the new Yojimbo and Sanjuro releases from Criterion. The write-up looks at both the influences as well as the background to the two films. See here for the article.
Article on Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’
26 November, 2006The PassionForCinema blog has published a nice review of Kurosawa’s High and Low, written by someone by the pseudonym t!. There are some nice observations there, and it reads well. Especially recommended if you have not seen the movie yet, and are thinking which Kurosawa film to watch next!
Article: Movies Akira Kurosawa Saw
5 November, 2006 (2 comments)There is an excellent and very interesting post at lady_wakasa’s blog, basically taking Something Like an Autobiography (Kurosawa’s autobiography, as you all know) and chronologically listing the films that the mentions up until the age of 19. The resulting list is one of the most interesting things I have seen for a long time!
Article: Pluralism - Rashomon and Contested Conceptions of Criminality
2 November, 2006Update (November 9): The body of the essay has now been changed and corresponds with the abstract. Do take a look if you are interested. Through the Legal Theory Blog More...
Article on ‘The Bad Sleep Well’
20 October, 2006There is an interesting little article at The Indigestible on Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. It makes a curious suggestion that the film could be seen as “a bizarre More...
Article on Rashomon
5 October, 2006Charlie Thomason at Cinema Noir has posted an article about Rashomon, which is well written and introduces the film nicely. Do take a look.
Kurosawa Article: Red Beard (plus Ikiru)
3 October, 2006 (4 comments)There is a rather good piece written by Ganesh at Brooklyn Masala about Red Beard (Akahige). Do take a look: link Update: And I thought I already linked to this one, but it seems I didn’t: here is Ganesh’s earlier article on Ikiru. Enjoy!
Article: Tetsuya Nakadai
3 October, 2006Chuck Stephens has written a nice article on Tetsuya Nakadai’s career. Although the entry is dated August 14, this is the first time I see it, and so here is the link now: Tetsuya Nakadai.
Blogged: Ikiru
6 September, 2006Agus at Rhythmic Soul has blogged on Kurosawa’s Ikiru. You can read his reflections here.
Blogged: Blogging a disastrously translated “Record of a Living Being”
2 September, 2006J. M. Kearns at Idyllopus has posted a mammoth article on “Record of a Living Being”, and it is well worth reading through. Not only will it practically make you More...
Blogged: Shots in ‘Throne of Blood’
23 August, 2006 (2 comments)KM writes some interesting observations about Throne of Blood at his blog Flotsam. The comments are also worth scanning through.
Blogged: Samurai archery
7 August, 2006Samurai Dave - The Roving Ronin Report has an interesting article on the history behind Japanese horseback archery. What makes the text relevant to Kurosawa is the following paragraph, which More...
Blogged: a Stray Dog article
1 August, 2006 (5 comments)Mark at Movie Masterworks has written an excellent article on Stray Dog (Nora inu). His observations on Kurosawa’s movie are well worth reading. Before you go, however, please note that More...
Blogged: Yojimbo opening shots
24 July, 2006Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog has a new entry on the opening shots of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Do take a look.
Blogged: Oddest director/actor pairs
12 July, 2006The film blog Cinematical has run an article about the seven oddest director actor combos. Akira Kurosawa makes the list with his Rhapsody in August star Richard Gere.
Seven Samurai meets Black Sabbath
24 June, 2006Someone has made a rather interesting mash-up of the trailer to Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Black Sabbath’s song “War Pigs”. It is available at Google Video for you to see.
Yojimbo 5
11 June, 2006While some of us are horrified by the recent rumours about a Seven Samurai remake, it is good to remember that it would not be the first time Kurosawa’s films More...
Takemitsu downloads
11 June, 2006Psst. If you follow this link, you arrive at a blog called Classical Connection that specializes in making out-of-print classical music available. And even more interestingly, you end up on More...
Management trouble in the Kurosawa family?
5 June, 2006This comes a bit late, but as reported by Hoga News which in turn refers to a Japanese article found here, it appears that the confusion with the planned More...
Kurosawa and the Blogosphere
2 June, 2006In this week’s roundup of Kurosawa related blog entries… Martha Fischer has expressed her opinion about the new Seven Samurai remake at Cinematical.com. A similar opinion may also be found at I Watch Stuff.