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 special retrospective to honor the late auteur, including the U.S.

Long Take is a revelatory new portrait of Akira Kurosawa, the masterful Japanese filmmaker whose classic films include Rashoman (1950) Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), High and Low ...

Looking at the output of famed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa throughout the 1960s is bittersweet, because he was extremely prolific for the first half of the decade or so, releasing one great film ...

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

Akira Kurosawa a prolific and internationally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker whose career spanned over five decades and thirty films that influenced artists of diverse cultures and mediums, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was first introduced to Akira Kurosawa's work in a Film Literature class I took in high school. We were shown a scene from the 1954 film, "Seven Samurai," considered one of his masterpieces, and I ...

If you're after epic movies that are genuine masterpieces, then Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Samurai, and The Godfather are all ...

Japanese stage and movie actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in a string of Akira Kurosawa films, including the lead in "Ran", has died aged 92, his acting school said on Tuesday. Nakadai first rose to ...