Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for the tag "cinema"
Akira Kurosawa and the Cannes Film Festival
18 May, 2007 (1 comment)The 60th Cannes Film Festival has now screened the first films in this year’s competition, and I though that just like we did a couple of months ago with the More...
Article: Movies Akira Kurosawa Saw
5 November, 2006 (2 comments)There is an excellent and very interesting post at lady_wakasa’s blog, basically taking Something Like an Autobiography (Kurosawa’s autobiography, as you all know) and chronologically listing the films that the mentions up until the age of 19. The resulting list is one of the most interesting things I have seen for a long time!
Information about the Cinema Reserve (R2) edition of Kagemusha
4 November, 200620th Century Fox is putting out a new region 2 release of Kagemusha under their ‘Cinema Reserve’ series. The double DVD is to be released on November 27. The More...
DVD Times: Criterion’s Seven Samurai set
17 October, 2006My personal DVD website of choice, DVD Times, has published a review of Criterion’s Seven Samurai, and like all the reviews before it praises the DVD set as not More...
Teruyo Nogami: A new film + the Kurosawa book
29 September, 2006 (2 comments)After finding success with the recent samurai trilogy that included the 2004 Academy Award nominated film The Twilight Samurai, as well as The Hidden Blade and most recently Bushi More...
Pre-1953 Japanese films are in public domain
12 July, 2006 (3 comments)News are emerging that a Tokyo District court has ruled all pre-1953 Japanese films to be in the public domain. Paramount Pictures was contesting this based on a 2004 ruling More...