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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Although I saw few movies from Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa, I'd straightforwardly say that Ran is his best movie ever.This re-adaptation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear tells the story of the aging Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji who has three sons (Taro, Jiro and Saburo). Hidetora divides his land in three for his sons and expects them to stay united. However, Hidetora Ichimonji,...
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
"Veteran filmmaker Yôji Yamada closes his thematic trilogy about the last samurai and the end of traditional values with Love and Honor (2006), the most melodramatic of the three films," writes Simon Abrams in the New York Press. "While...
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
What do the movies Seven Samurai, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Ringu, and Spirited Away have in common? They were all...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Long before Zodiac came along, Akira Kurosawa’s crime film set the standard for detail-obsessed procedurals.
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Yes, boys and girls, it’s Todd from here with another edition of International Eye Candy, our regular collection of the very finest the world has to offer, along with a reminder to always save your work. Seriously: automatic security updates and restarts while certain writers are away from the computer tending to matters of personal hygiene absolutely suck. And with that in mind here goes this week’s...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
"High and Low" (1963) is best seen as a triptych: a morality play, a policier and, in between, an indelible suspense sequence.
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Top picks this week include a kidnapping drama from Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, the Boston Celtics championship season ...
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The Moment (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A curator for the Horticultural Society of New York shares a few of her style essentials.
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Filed under: Action , Foreign Language , Fandom , Remakes and Sequels Prepare to roll your eyes in disbelief. The remake of Akira Kurosawa's venerated classic The Seven Samurai has been completed. But it's not the one planned by The Weinstein Co. And it's scored to The Rolling Stones?!! Let's clarify: Don Brown at ryugangi says that Hiroyuki Nakano , director of the excessively stylish Samurai Fiction...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
DVD Reviews: In a clear sign of their ongoing commitment to quality, the Criterion Collection improves upon yet another of their early library titles (in this case, spine No. 24), reissuing Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low" (1963) with an improved hi-def transfer and all-new extras.
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Fark.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Let me sit him down and explain all the nuances of the influences that Lucas had while creating the universe drawing on not only Joseph Campbell's body of works but also the works of Japanese flimmaker Akira Kurosawa in order to reinvigorate the child's love for the franchise so that he may one day know the pleasure of writing an angry post on the internet about how the series has let him down.
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Yes, Akira Kurosawa must be spinning in his grave right now thanks to the disrespect his son is showing by selling off remake rights to his films to seemingly anyone who comes knocking and, yes, it’s sad to see that Samurai Fiction director Hiroyuki Nakano has slipped to this but damn if it doesn’t actually look pretty good. What is it? Hiroyuki Nakano - once an international darling, now absent from...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hey, David Gaines! It's not you, Baby. It's me. Gaines is the gifted mime and movement artist who reduces Akira Kurosawa's epic 1954 masterpiece The Seven Samurai to 45 minutes and a cast of one in 7 (x1) Samurai. He is by any standard an estimable man with a list of credits longer than Toshiro Mifune's katana. He evokes distinct characters using only his body and his voice (though he utters but a...
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Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I apologise for lack of posting. However tonight I went to see Ikiru- the great film by Akira Kurosawa- the problem with Ikiru is that it is a film which by its nature is not easy to comment on. It is incredibly difficult to grasp what the film is actually about- not because the plot is hard to grasp naturally- but because the ramifications are so dense. In a sense that is what defines a good story-...
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IGN (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Gods crash a Malibu party (free food for Wade!) and gush over Criterion's re-release of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low.
