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5 days ago · A highly versatile actor, he also starred in Kurosawa’s adaptations of three Western literary classics: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot, titled Hakuchi (1951); Shakespeare’s Macbeth, titled Kumonosu-jo (1957; Throne of Blood); and Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths, titled Donzoko (1957).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 days ago · Rarely screened since, Kurosawa’s masterpiece is showing — complete with intermission — for two weeks at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. Its power is undiminished.
Jun 29, 2024 · The film was director Akira Kurosawa’s favorite Ghibli film, and he even once wrote a letter to Hayao Miyazaki singing its praises (he mistakenly thought Miyazaki had directed it.)
5 days ago · NEW YORK (AP) — Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still...
Jun 18, 2024 · Auteurs such as Hiroshi Inagaki, Hideo Gosha, Kihachi Okamoto, and Kenji Misumi played an equally important role in the development of the samurai genre as Kurosawa and Kobayashi. Films such as The Sword of Doom, Three Outlaw Samurai, and Lady Snowblood rank as some of the greatest samurai movies not directed by Kurosawa or Kobayashi.
- Staff Writer
Jun 30, 2024 · While there are many great Akira Kurosawa films that ended up inspiring American reimaginings, the 1973 shogun film Lady Snowblood drew inspiration from Gunslinger films to create an epic...
Jun 11, 2024 · A new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa ’s epic masterpiece, SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, will run at Film Forum from Friday, July 5 through Thursday, July 18.
