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News archive for the tag "review"
Daily Yomimuri review of ‘The Last Princess’
9 May, 2008Daily Yomimuri Online has a review of the new Hidden Fortress remake The Last Princess. Unlike the Mark Schilling review that I linked to earlier today, the Daily Yomimuri piece, More...
Mark Schilling reviews ‘The Last Princess’
9 May, 2008The Japan Times’s Mark Schilling, who has written extensively on modern Japanese film, gave us the first verdict of last year’s remake of Sanjuro, and he is at it again More...
Review: “Akira Kurosawa - Interviews”
2 February, 2008Published last December, Akira Kurosawa: Interviews is the latest volume in the University Press of Mississippi film book series Conversations with Filmmakers. It is also the first English language book More...
Postwar Kurosawa reviews
14 January, 2008 (3 comments)Reviews of the Postwar Kurosawa set have started to fly in. As usual, DVD Talk gives us a good general overview of the box set, while the DVD Beaver review More...
Japan Times review of Morita’s Sanjuro
9 December, 2007Japan Times has a review of Tsubaki Sanjuro by Mark Schilling. Schilling gives the movie 3 out of 5 stars, summing it up with: ‘A four-word review of “Tsubaki Sanjuro” More...
Review: “Ran”, the board game
19 November, 2007 (5 comments)Board gaming is a hobby that has always been dear to me. My interest in the field is wide, ranging from simple and straightforward “social” games such as the relatively More...
DVD Beaver’s review of Drunken Angel
14 November, 2007The guys over at DVD Beaver have taken a look at the new Drunken Angel from Criterion. They compare the print to BFI’s Region 2 release, and note that the More...
DVD Talk reviews Drunken Angel
14 November, 2007 (3 comments)Stuart Galbraith IV has written yet another excellent review of a Kurosawa DVD for DVD Talk, this time for the to-be-released Drunken Angel by Criterion. His assessment of Criterion’s latest More...
A Dersu Uzala review
22 April, 2007There is a rather generic Dersu Uzala review, indeed almost a description, over at RussiaBlog.org. I’m posting a link here for completeness’ sake.
Yojimbo / Sanjuro DVD Review at Audiophile Audition
26 January, 2007 (1 comment)Here is yet another mid-length review of Criterion’s take on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro movies by Audiophile Audition. The films get 5/5 stars, and the discussion is similar to what More...
Two Kurosawa mentions
21 January, 2007If you happen to be in Tokyo on Monday and enjoy contemporary dance, you may be interested to know that a production called Sokerissa! will be staged at three o’clock More...
DVD File review of Criterion’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro
17 January, 2007DVD File has reviewed Criterion’s new Yojimbo and Sanjuro releases, and as expected gives thumbs up for the product. There is nothing really new in the review, but just for the completeness’s sake, here is the link.
DVD Talk reviews Criterion’s new Yojimbo and Sanjuro
15 January, 2007DVD Talk has reviewed Criterion’s new Yojimbo and Sanjuro releases, and the verdict is what we have wanted to hear — the movies are, indeed, hugely upgraded from Criterion’s original releases. (Then again, after the Seven Samurai release, I don’t think anyone had any doubts about this?) For the full review, head to DVD Talk.
Article on Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’
26 November, 2006The PassionForCinema blog has published a nice review of Kurosawa’s High and Low, written by someone by the pseudonym t!. There are some nice observations there, and it reads well. Especially recommended if you have not seen the movie yet, and are thinking which Kurosawa film to watch next!
DVD Times reviews Optimum’s ‘Ran’
20 November, 2006 (5 comments)Kevin Gilvear at DVD Times has reviewed Optimum’s Region 2 release of Ran, which is due out on November 26th. Rather than spending any time with the movie itself, More...
DVD Times: Criterion’s Seven Samurai set
17 October, 2006My personal DVD website of choice, DVD Times, has published a review of Criterion’s Seven Samurai, and like all the reviews before it praises the DVD set as not More...