Akira Kurosawa News, Information and Discussion
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Second teaser trailer for The Last Princess
18 March, 2008 (1 comment)The second teaser trailer for Shinji Higuchi’s remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, renamed The Last Princess, has been made available on the updated official website. The trailer is also More...
Toru Takemitsu documentary
14 March, 2008 (1 comment)A documentary on the soundtrack work of Toru Takemitsu has appeared on YouTube. You can watch the first part here, and follow the “Related videos” links to continue with parts More...
A Hitachi Commercial with Akira Kurosawa
30 September, 2007A new YouTube video with Kurosawa has appeared online. In it, shots of Kurosawa working on film sets are used to sell a Hitachi product (does anyone know what, exactly?). More...
Archive.org’s Sanshiro Sugata
26 August, 2007 (1 comment)The Internet Archive has added Sanshiro Sugata to their collection. Just like earlier on with Rashomon, the film is now downloadable in a few different formats, or can be watched in a browser. I have not yet had the time to check the quality of their release.
Kurosawa documentary at the Internet Archive
27 May, 2007 (2 comments)There is a new (?) Kurosawa documentary at the Internet Archive, which can be viewed and downloaded here. Not much information is provided about the piece, apart from the text More...
YouTube: For Beautiful Movies
24 May, 2007 (5 comments)The Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies has now been uploaded to YouTube in its entirety. I am not entirely sure what to make of this in terms of More...