Akira Kurosawa was a seismic force, the kind of artist who makes other artists question their craft. Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, Tarantino—you name it, they all bow, one way or another, to the man who ...

Although Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo is the most remembered samurai film of that decade, the 1962 sequel was even better.

Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ran', released in 1985, is widely regarded as the legendary director’s masterpiece. It often appears in ...

The wonder of Akira Kurosawa’s 50-year career is that it was at once remarkably varied and satisfyingly coherent. Kurosawa (1910-98) elevated the samurai genre and reinvented action filmmaking.

When you think of Japanese directors, names like Takeshi Miike, Hayao Miyazaki, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Hirokazu Koreeda all ...

As a symbol of the ideal American in cinema, Richard Gere is pretty much perfect. Good-looking, well-groomed, charming, ...

In 2020, Sucker Punch struck a deal with the estate of the late Samurai film director, Akira Kurosawa, to bring a ...

The Bear' writer, director and star Ayo Edebiri told 'Criterion' she loves this classic 1960s Japanese crime movie from Akira Kurosawa.

"We only realize how beautiful life is... when we face death." One of the finest filmmakers of all-time. Film Forum in NYC is ...

When Akira Kurosawa arrived in Manhattan several days ago to open the New York Film Festival with his film ”Ran,” the city was experiencing exactly that: Hurricane Gloria.

She thanked the Tokyo festival for reinstating its Kurosawa Akira Award, a prize that had been in abeyance for several years, revived this year with honors for Alejandro González Iñárritu and ...