According to Blu-ray.com, Optimum Home Entertainment will release Ran on Blu-ray on September 28. The UK release may be region-locked to Blu-ray region B. A discussion topic at Blu-ray.com forums More...
Do you ever have the feeling that Seven Samurai is a little bit everywhere these days? Well, with last year’s Japanese Pachinko remake, the Weinsteins reimagination project, Irvine Welsh’s soccer More...
If you have been a reader for some time, you may remember last year’s Japanese remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, which got some fairly mixed reviews: Daily Yomimuri called 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...
Would you be interested in seeing some twenty thousand pages of Kurosawa’s screenplays, photos, storyboards, drawings, notes, newspaper clippings, personal scribblings and other materials? If yes, head to the Akira More...
NipponCinema.com has the first teaser trailer for Hiroyuki Nakano’s forthcoming film Tajomaru. As reported earlier, the film follows the adventures of the titular rogue from Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story “In More...
Well, the first on the list is being remade by the author of the second, set in the world of the last mentioned. Yes, you read it right. Irvine Welsh More...
Criterion has announced an August 18 release for a blu-ray edition of Kagemusha. In terms of extras, the blu-ray edition is an exact copy of Criterion’s double DVD release. More information about the release can be found on Criterion’s product page.
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...
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