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Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club #1: Rashomon, May 1st
11 April, 2008 (2 comments)As decided earlier, AkiraKurosawa.info’s Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club will kick off on May 1st 2008 with Rashomon. Everyone is welcome to participate. The Film Club was set up to More...
“In a Bamboo Grove” on BBC Radio
26 January, 2008Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s In a Bamboo Grove has been dramatised for the radio by the BBC. The short story, of course, worked as the primary source text for Kurosawa’s Rashomon. I More...
New region 4 Kurosawa from Madman
24 January, 2008 (5 comments)As Master Thief pointed out a few days ago in the comments to Amazon’s new Kurosawa offerings, the Australian Madman Entertainment’s Eastern Eye series put out a host of new More...
Amazon’s new Kurosawa offerings
22 January, 2008 (5 comments)The Amazon.com exclusive Criterion Collection Director Series: Akira Kurosawa that I wrote about recently turns out to consist of Criterion’s new version of Yojimbo, Seven Samurai and Sanjuro (as well More...
Two new Rashomon releases
21 January, 2008January 7 quietly saw the All Regions DVD release of Rashomon by a company called Triad Productions. Based on the item description on the Amazon website, according to which the More...
Herzog: Rashomon “has complete balance”
19 June, 2007 (3 comments)In this interview posted at YouTube, Werner Herzog describes Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon as a movie exceptional in that it “has complete balance”. Herzog’s idea of the “Ecstatic Truth” in cinema More...