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Japanese ‘After the Rain’ and ‘Dreams’ releases
8 October, 2008 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 More...KINO’s Dersu Uzala released as part of a box set
8 October, 2008 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 More...Red Bearded October (Film Club #6)
2 October, 2008 (9 comments) 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, More...‘Seven Samurai’ stage adaptation, a Chinese homage
30 September, 2008 (1 comment) Some further tiny news bits: An adaptation of Samurai 7, based on Seven Samurai, will be staged at the Shinjuku Koma Stadium in Tokyo in More...Two further newsbits: Kin Sugai and CNN’s Best Asian Films
21 September, 2008 (3 comments) To round up this week’s Akira Kurosawa related news, here’s two lighter news items: Kin Sugai, who over the years appeared in five Kurosawa films More...Kurosawa’s ‘The Masque of the Black Death’ to be made into Anime (plus a ‘Rashomon’ remake)
21 September, 2008 Continuing with the AK100 related news (see my previous post), it has also been announced that Kurosawa Production together with Japan’s Lotus, America’s Lexicon Film More...News archives »
Cruel September
Red Beard: The Mantis and Kurosawa's Evil Problem
Red Beard - the Apocalypse Now question
Red Beard: The Well (a technical question)
Red Bearded October (Film Club #6)
Ashes of Time - Wong Kar-Wei
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Kurosawa italian DVD
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.