Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
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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...
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...
Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club #1: Rashomon, May 1st
11 April, 2008 (2 comments)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...
New website look
23 February, 2008 (20 comments)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...
Bringing back the dead (oddities in the forums)
3 December, 2007Our 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...
E-mail features
1 November, 2007Just 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...
A small update
4 May, 2007 (7 comments)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...
Introducing the Akira Kurosawa Discussion Forums
29 March, 2007 (6 comments)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...
About unscheduled downtime
13 March, 2007 (2 comments)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...
DVD section finished (sort of)
25 February, 2007 (2 comments)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...
Good and Bad news regarding the “Akira Kurosawa’s Paintings” page
25 February, 2007 (3 comments)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...
Website update
25 February, 2007The 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).
About March 2007 (less frequent AKN&I updates)
17 February, 2007 (4 comments)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...
AKN&I Returns From Maintenance: New Domain
29 January, 2007 (4 comments)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...
AKN&I Maintenance: Comments Temporarily Closed
28 January, 2007The 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...
AKNI Comment Editing
24 January, 2007 (9 comments)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...
AKNI Style Changes
22 January, 2007 (8 comments)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...
Akira Kurosawa News and Information downtime
14 November, 2006Update: 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...
AKN&I gets a new design
31 October, 2006 (3 comments)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...
Picture: Toshiro Mifune’s Autograph
6 October, 2006While 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.
Article: Bidding for Items in Yahoo! Japan Auctions
6 October, 2006I 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.
Changes in the RSS feed
20 September, 2006I 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.
Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Seven Samurai’ currently the third most talked about classic movie
18 September, 2006 (2 comments)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...
New website additions
25 June, 2006Some 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!