Last month’s film club feature Sanjuro (1962) was based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto, and this month we continue in the same mode by moving onto Dodesukaden (1970), another More...
First of all, apologies for the recent silence from my part, but life (read: “work”) has been hectic. Last month, I constantly kept hoping that I would find the time More...
First of all, let me say that I’m terribly sorry about the week-long downtime. The visitor numbers have been growing lately, putting more strain on the servers, and very suddenly More...
Ran, the film of the month for our Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club, holds a special place in Kurosawa’s oeuvre. It is the last of his great epics, a film More...
Welcome to the AK Online Film Club edition #16. There are at least two things to get excited about this month. One, of course, is the film itself, The Bad More...
July’s edition of Akira Kurosawa Film Club features Record of a Living Being, which in the English speaking world has also been released as I Live in Fear. Filmed over More...
Welcome to the 14th edition of our very own social experiment dubbed the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club! For us, fourteen is an excellent number indeed, for it signifies the More...
Welcome to the 13th edition of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club! Yes, a year has already passed since we began with Rashomon, and what a wonderful year it has More...
Throne of Blood is the April movie for our online film club. It is also the 12th movie on our list, completing the first year of discussion! As Coco already More...
I was dreamin’ when I wrote this / Forgive me if it goes astray. Yesterday, March 23rd 2009, marked 99 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa. To celebrate, I decided to More...
The month has changed again it seems, and so the focus of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club shifts to the next film on the list. Marked for March is More...
Following last week’s server move, there was one (hopefully) final (but huge) problem with the forums, which I have now solved. You can read more about it here. Please accept my apologies, and let me know if you encounter any further problems.
If you can read this, it means that the server move is now done, and thanks to the magic of intertubes, you are now staring at the same old AK.info More...
Edit: The move is now over. As you may have noticed, the server has been down again for most of the day. So, I am finally going to do what More...
You may have noticed that the month has changed once again, and as always this means that the focus of our Akira Kurosawa Film Club shifts onto a new More...
As you may remember, a while back I asked you to vote for the Akira Kurosawa Film Club’s 2009 schedule. And although there were only three actual votes, it was More...
The stomach on the left belongs to the protagonist of this month’s edition of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club. Yes, it is November and therefore time for the 7th 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...
September stands for High and Low, at least when it comes to the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club. You should by now be familiar with the system, but in case More...
After discussing Rashomon and Drunken Angel in the past two months, the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club will move on to Yojimbo in July. Perhaps Kurosawa’s most popular film, Yojimbo More...
Well, June is here and so it is time for us to turn the attention of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club to Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi), the 1948 movie More...
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...
Just 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...
I 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...
As decided earlier, AkiraKurosawa.info’s Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club will kick off on May 1st 2008 with Rashomon. Everyone is welcome to participate. The Film Club was set up to More...
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...
Our member Sanjuro mentioned that some of the older posts he had written had not showed up on the forums at all. He actually told me about this earlier — More...
Just a short note to let you know that I’ve added two new functions to the website. Both of them have to do with e-mails. 1. You can now subscribe More...
In the past few weeks I have worked on both some new content as well as what I think is a slightly improved user interface for this website. I think More...
If you glimpse at the website menu, you will notice that there is a new link as the very rightmost entry on the list. It is titled “Forums“, and as More...
Due to my current military service, I haven’t been able to monitor my websites as much as I would like to. However, the automatic monitoring systems that I use have More...
I’ve done quite a bit for this website today, although most of it has happened behind the scenes and won’t be visible to you, the visitor. However, I did finally More...
There is a series of good and bad news regarding the Akira Kurosawa’s Paintings section on this website: Good: Some time ago I was contacted by HoriPro Inc., the company More...
The machinery behind this website has been updated (sorry if you tried to access the site during this time and received errors). I’m doing my best to make sure that everything functions as it should, but if you see something that looks odd, please drop me a line (the comment section here is fine).
This January I finished my Master’s degree. In case you are interested, I did an MA in English Studies, specialising on theoretical linguistics and especially so syntactic theory, but also More...
The maintenance phase should now be over, and things are back in full operation. Comment sections are open again, so feel free to leave your thoughts! The most visible change More...
The next couple of days will see some changes in the way this website is hosted, and in order to keep everything running smoothly and prevent any more loss of More...
Due to popular demand, comment editing is now available on this website. The solution is time-based, so at the moment you have 15 minutes after your original post to edit More...
There have been some relatively minor changes to the design of this website in the past couple of days. Hopefully, navigation around the site is now a bit simpler, and More...
Update: We are back up. The move did not go entirely as planned, and downtime in fact lasted for slightly over three hours, but all in all everything looks fine More...
Tired of the old baby-blue design that this website had, I spent a day brainstorming, Photoshopping and looking at other people’s blogs. By the end of the day I had More...
While doing my regular checks of the Yahoo! Japan Auctions, I stumbled on this item that sells a promotional picture from Red Beard with Toshiro Mifune’s autograph on it. It looks pretty great, in fact. Were it poster size, I might in fact have bid on it.
I have written a short article for my general blog about the services that let you bid on Yahoo! Japan Auctions even when you live outside of Japan and don’t speak a word of Japanese. In case some of you might be interested, take a look here: Bidding in Yahoo! Japan Auctions from Outside of Japan.
I have switched Akira Kurosawa News and Information to use feeds through Feedburner. No action is required from your part. However, if you encounter anything that seems odd, please do not hesitate to contact me.
According to my new cinema related web service, Movie Say: the Film Buzz Index, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai currently ranks as the third most discussed classic film on the More...
Some new trailers of Akira Kurosawa’s movies have now been added to the Akira Kurosawa videos and trailers section. I also made some preliminary research on the availability of Kurosawa related movie posters. See the results in the new Akira Kurosawa posters section. As always, comments and queries are more than welcome!
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