Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akira Kurosawa’s legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New York City will be hosting a ...

A complete Akira Kurosawa retrospective on 35mm begins, Charles Burnett with "To Sleep With Anger" and Jason Reitman with ...

Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential directors in cinema history, but Clint Eastwood wasn't impressed by one of ...

Film Forum recently released the trailer for Akira Kurosawa: A Retrospective, a limited rerelease of Kurosawa’s best movies. The selected films have been remastered in 4K by Toho Co., Ltd. Many of ...

There are beloved filmmakers. There are acclaimed filmmakers. Few directors, though, achieve the level of notoriety and praise that Akira Kurosawa has garnered. Soon, the Texas Theatre will give ...

Akira Kurosawa was a filmmaker who generally prioritized quality over quantity, especially in the second half of his filmmaking career, when he was less prolific (a bit like the similarly legendary ...

Feature: How to adapt a film like Akira Kurosawa? Akira Kurosawa is one of the world’s most revered directors, his films often cited as inspiration amongst other auteurs. Sometimes that inspiration ...

Akira Kurosawa could very well be the single most influential filmmaker of the 20th century. With the possible exception of Alfred Hitchcock, no filmmaker has been more frequently shouted out by ...

Taking a page from Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth, Izumi (actor as well as playwright) uses a speaker's lectern to begin the play a number of times. Ostensibly a presentation about the life ...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film “Ikiru” has acquired a reputation as a corrective — “this is the one that will remind you what matters” — and reputations like that tend to flatten what is most unsettling ...