“Filming Akira Kurosawa” will be screened on Emirates flights. sun10ro.com

“Filming Akira Kurosawa” will be screened on Emirates flights
from January 2026 through 2028.

I am deeply honored that the Emirates programming team
personally viewed the film and chose it for their in-flight entertainment lineup.

Company Official Website
https://www.emirates.com/

Company Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company Category
Distributor

Business Type
In-flight entertainment / Airline content licensing

Distribution Area
Africa
Asia
Caribbean
Central America
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America

Company Overview
Emirates is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
and a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization.
The airline serves 122 cities across 76 countries.

Company PR
From our global hub in Dubai, Emirates operates flights to destinations worldwide.
We fly one of the most modern and efficient fleets in the industry.
Our employees—representing a wide range of cultural backgrounds—deliver
our award-winning service across all six continents every day.

This is wonderful news, tokyowebtv!! Are there specific flights where the documentary will be shown, or will it be available on all Emirates flights? Is it the full length version of the documentary?

For those who may not connect the dots, this is the “fly on the wall” documentary about the making of Ran that we had some limited discussion of earlier this year. You can check out tokyowebtv’s website in English at sun10ro.com/english.

And you can see the trailer on YouTube (just maybe turn off the automatically generated AI voice over translation, if you get that like I did, if you want to hear Kurosawa).

Filming Akira Kurosawa is not merely a behind-the-scenes documentary, but a rare historical record that captures Akira Kurosawa’s filmmaking philosophy at work. Based on approximately one year of video recordings made during the production of Ran (1985), the film preserves moments that were never intended for public view: rehearsals, repeated instructions to actors, and Kurosawa’s calm, patient engagement with his cast and crew.

The documentary reveals a director far removed from the stereotypical image of an authoritarian genius. Instead, Kurosawa appears as a teacher-like figure, carefully guiding performers through repetition and explanation, emphasizing meaning over intimidation. The footage also includes scenes normally forbidden to be filmed at the time, made possible by the then-silent video cameras, capturing Kurosawa’s voice calling “Action” and “Cut” during actual takes.

Beyond rehearsals, the film documents large-scale battle scenes, horses and soldiers filling the frame, and Kurosawa’s innovative use of multiple cameras to capture a single scene in one take—methods he explains directly in the film.

Originally unfinished, the documentary was re-edited decades later and released as Life Work of Akira Kurosawa, receiving critical recognition. Filming Akira Kurosawa stands as a vital primary source for film history and education, offering an irreplaceable insight into the creative process of one of cinema’s greatest masters.

tokyoweb: Apologies that the above comment of yours from late December only gets posted now! It had somehow gone into the system’s spam folder and I had not received a notification.

I also just learnt that the film is now available on Amazon Prime Video US, as well as Amazon Prime Video UK. That’s great, congratulations!

The IMDb page can be found here.