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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 breathtaking.

Kurosawa in 4K, a two-week series of classics by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), gloriously restored ...