NipponCinema.com has the first teaser trailer for Hiroyuki Nakano’s forthcoming film Tajomaru. As reported earlier, the film follows the adventures of the titular rogue from Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story “In More...
On December 11th, 2008 the Oxford English Dictionary went through its latest update, this one concentrating on the words within the range from ran to reamy. Among the new entries More...
Hiroyuki Nakano, who according to reports masterminded a Pachinko version of Seven Samurai last summer, is approaching the Kurosawa territory again with his next movie, Tajomaru. According to Tokyograph, the More...
So far, the only high definition Kurosawa release is the French HD-DVD version of Ran, released in 2007. This is, however, about to change in February with a range of More...
UK’s Optimum Releasing is putting out a new Region 2 edition of Rashomon, coming out on October 13. Amazon.co.uk takes pre-orders (£11.98), while the film is also available from Optimum’s More...
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...
Ryunosuke 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...
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...
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...
January 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...
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...
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...
As reported earlier, Japanese movies made before 1953 are in public domain. The Internet Archive, which archives Internet and multimedia resources, has now added a downloadable version of Kurosawa’s Rashomon. More...
This morning I stumbled upon two movies that are in no way connected to one another, except for both taking their inspiration from Kurosawa’s Rashomon. One is an art film More...
Written in connection with the current Akira Kurosawa retrospective in Santa Monica, USA, the following article published in the Daily Trojan is a brief look at the depiction of war More...
The Boston Globe has a two-page article on Michael John LaChiusa’s See What I Wanna See, a musical originally inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon and further developed from Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s More...
Update (November 9): The body of the essay has now been changed and corresponds with the abstract. Do take a look if you are interested. Through the Legal Theory Blog More...
Update: These films are now available with English subtitles. Some of you may remember my earlier post about pre-1953 Japanese films being in public domain. While I am still a More...
Charlie Thomason at Cinema Noir has posted an article about Rashomon, which is well written and introduces the film nicely. Do take a look.
The Japanese film expert Donald Richie will be making some appearances on the US East Coast in October. The Kurosawa-related events are: Thursday, 19th of October: Richie introduces a special More...
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