Japanese filmmakers of all time won the only Oscar directing award of his career for a late-career masterpiece.

They don’t make them like Akira Kurosawa’s magisterial “Ran” anymore, but the truth is, they didn’t really make them like this regal epic back then either. Now screening in a new 4K digital ...

Long Take is a revelatory new portrait of Akira Kurosawa, the masterful Japanese filmmaker whose classic films include Rashoman (1950) The post Akira Kurosawa’s 20 Favorite Early Films appeared first ...

List Writer at Collider. Long reaching obsession with Star Wars, comics, and anime, along with a general love of movies. Has also made some in the past. Known best for his samurai pictures and his ...

Ghost of Tsushima pays homage to the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa. The enduring appeal of Kurosawa’s samurai films speaks to their unique position in the cultural canon. They are at once archetypal ...

The 92nd Academy Awards awarded “Parasite” the best picture Oscar, the first ever for a foreign-language film. Since then, international cinema has experienced a marked increase in prominence in the ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

The plot of director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, “Seven Samurai,” can be summed up in one sentence: Mercenaries are hired to protect a farming village from marauding bandits. Yet within that simple ...

Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa acknowledges the applause from the audience, ahead of the official screening of his film "Cloud" in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 31, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — ...