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Online Film Club: 2009 kicks off with ‘Seven Samurai’
4 January, 2009 The Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club starts 2009 with the mouth watering offering of Seven Samurai, perhaps Kurosawa’s most well known work. The 1954 film, More...Dersu Uzala book looking for a publisher
28 December, 2008 One of the many great things about running Akira Kurosawa NID is that I am time to time contacted by interesting people with connections to More...12 Academy Nominations for ‘Kabei: Our Mother’
19 December, 2008 Kabei: Our Mother, which is based on Teruyo Nogami’s wartime memoirs, has received 12 nominations for the Japan Academy Awards, including Picture of the Year, More...Criterion to release ‘Dodesukaden’
18 December, 2008 (2 comments) Criterion has decided to give out its Christmas gifts early this year, with the company announcing the release of Dodesukaden on March 17th next year. More...Online Film Club 2009 - Schedule
11 November, 2008 (8 comments) 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 More...Kurosawa’s paintings in Paris
8 November, 2008 (18 comments) The first of the AK100 events seems to already have started (actually not: see update below), with the exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris. More...News archives »
Kurosawa's paintings in Paris
Where I'm at
Eclipse: Criterion's new line
Rashomon print restored, Kurosawa exhibition in California
Japanamerican
Madadayo: Stage Lighting
Kurosawa and theatre
Madadayo: Kurosawa's Goodbye?
Books on Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club
Some Akira Kurosawa Related Links
Information Contents
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.