Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
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Tokyo court decides Kurosawa still under copyright
17 September, 2007In April this year Toho launched a lawsuit against Cosmo Contents, which had been selling cheap DVDs of Akira Kurosawa’s early films in Japan under the assumption that they were More...
Remake of “High and Low” in the works
2 August, 2007This apparently broke almost a month ago, but somehow it went past my radar — a TV remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) is in More...
Blogged: National cinemas (plus Yoshimoto)
10 July, 2007 (4 comments)At the Scopophilia part of his personal blog, Kikuchiyo, a globetrotting English teacher in Japan, has raised the question “what is national cinema” and what is it especially in the More...
Eclipse: Criterion’s new line
18 December, 2006 (5 comments)Criterion’s blog has announced a new line of products that will be released in addition to the regular high-quality Criterion releases that we have got so used to. The relevant More...
Details for Criterion’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro
18 October, 2006 (2 comments)We have not yet properly managed to get over the brilliance of Criterion’s Seven Samurai, and now the company is putting out information about their upcoming Yojimbo and Sanjuro More...
Donnie Yen on the state of Seven Samurai remake
21 July, 2006Malaysia Star quotes Donnie Yen, who in a press conference yesterday confirmed that the Weinstein Company’s project for a Hollywood remake of Seven Samurai is still in its very early More...