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.

Credits: Directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki. Rating/Runtime: Not rated. 143 minutes. Streaming on various services.

"That's the question I have you... can you handle it?" A24 has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Spike Lee's latest feature film titled Highest 2 Lowest, a modern remake of Kurosawa's 1963 classic ...

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As Julia Izumi jokes early on in Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live and Active Cultures), there can be something a little awkward about a playwright appearing in their own ...

Before watching Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's remake of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low this week, fans need to revisit Lee's iconic feature debut, which was also inspired by the legendary Japanese ...

Upon receiving notice of an upcoming program at Film Forum, “Kurosawa in 4K,” I was happy to get the opportunity to see a group of movies by Akira Kurosawa (1910-88) on a big screen while ...

It might surprise some movie fans, but Spike Lee’s latest film, Highest 2 Lowest, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, and an old 1962 TV episode all come from the same source material. The crime novel King ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Official image from ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ courtesy of A24. The first act of Akira Kurosawa’s “High ...

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 ...