Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
News archive for the tag "ikiru"
The Last Princess, plus more remakes in the horizon
29 March, 2008 (1 comment)Nikkei News has an article on The Last Princess, which as most readers should by now know is a remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to be released in Japan More...
An Akira Kurosawa remake roundup
29 October, 2007 (12 comments)Since many of you can’t probably keep up with all the Kurosawa remakes that are happening at the moment, I decided to compile a list of titles in planning or More...
Blogged: Ikiru teaches through the mimesis of learning
4 June, 2007 (1 comment)Marc Rebillet at the Classics Revisited blog has put forward the idea that Kurosawa’s Ikiru differs from the rest of his works in that it allows us to observe characters More...
‘Ikiru’ to be adapted on TV
10 May, 2007 (3 comments)The Japanese television network TV Asahi is reportedly currently filming a TV remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 movie Ikiru. Production of the television drama, which stars the popular kabuki More...
Seven Samurai seconded by the Japanese
21 April, 2007 (5 comments)In a recent online poll the Japanese DIMSDRIVE Research asked what domestic movies the Japanese participants would recommend to foreigners. Altogether 5,537 members answered the question, voting Seven Samurai the More...
“Kurosawa Gets It”
19 April, 2007 (2 comments)Grubby over at the blog Skreak! has written a short piece (or more like a thought) that briefly compares the concept of “living life” as portrayed in Ikiru and the More...