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Criterion swaps your old DVDs for Blu-Ray releases
27 August, 2008 (3 comments) With Blu-ray having won the “high definition format war” last spring, and Criterion now finally starting to put out their Blu-ray releases, there has been More...Rashomon print restored, Kurosawa exhibition in California
22 August, 2008 (3 comments) The US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has completed a digital restoration project to clean up Rashomon, and will be premiering the new More...Intellectual Property High Court rules Kurosawa still under copyright
1 August, 2008 (5 comments) The copyright saga about Kurosawa’s pre-1952 movies seems to have come to an end yesterday with a Japanese Intellectual Property High Court ruling that establishes More...AK Online Film Club #4: Stray Dog
1 August, 2008 It is the first of August, which in Film Club terms means the beginning for the discussion of Kurosawa’s 1949 movie Stray Dog (”Nora inu”). More...A Japanese ‘Seven Samurai’ remake released
23 July, 2008 (3 comments) It seems that, somewhat out of the blue, a new Seven Samurai remake has been released in Japan. The film was directed by Hiroyuki Nakano More...Criterion’s ‘High and Low’ released
23 July, 2008 Criterion’s double-disc re-release of High and Low should now be available for purchase. Amazon.com stocks the item for $27.99. The release has received a very More...News archives »
Stray Dog: The End
Asian Book Bucket: Yasunari Kawabata's Japan
Criterion swaps your old DVDs for Blu-Ray releases
Stray Dog: Sexuality and the case of the murdered woman
Stray Dog: The title
Books on Akira Kurosawa
Film Club Pacing
Asian Book Bucket: The Oxford book of Japanese short stories / edited by Theodore W. Goossen.
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Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club
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Books on Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa's Movies on DVD
Other Movies with Kurosawa's Involvement
27 November, 2007
Criterion releases Drunken Angel DVD
1 December, 2007
Yoshimitsu Morita's remake of Sanjuro opens in Japan. See IMDb and the official website for more information.
December, 2007
University Press of Mississippi publishes Akira Kurosawa: Interviews as part of their "Conversations With Filmmakers" book series
15 January, 2008
DVDs of I Live in Fear (aka Record of a Living Being), The Idiot, No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday, and Scandal released as Postwar Kurosawa Collection in Criterion's "Eclipse" series
10 May, 2008
Shinji Higuchi's remake of The Hidden Fortress premiers in Japan
22 July, 2008
Criterion re-releases High and Low on DVD
6 September, 2008
10 years since the death of Akira Kurosawa
23 March, 2010
100 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa
Our Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club started in May, 2008 with lively discussion on Rashomon.
Our intention is in the next three years to go through Kurosawa's whole oeuvre one film at a time. Discussion of a new film will commence on the first of every month.
For more information including schedules, see the film club page.
AK100 Project
As the centenary of Kurosawa's birth (23 March 2010) draws nearer, Akira Kurosawa Production has launched a project that will make available "exhibitions of Kurosawa's work, newly published books and stamps, merchandise and tie-ups with TV broadcasters and video game companies" over the next few years. For more information, try a search.
Seven Samurai Hollywood remake
The Weinstein Company and Kurosawa Production are reportedly working on a contemporary remake of Seven Samurai. Search akirakurosawa.info for more information.
Jim Sheridan's Ikiru remake
There are rumours that Jim Sheridan is working on a remake of Ikiru. Very little is currently known about the project.