Spike Lee will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, where the Oscar-winning ...

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.

Forty years on from its release, war film Ran continues to prove popular among movie enthusiasts and is available on the ...

Westerns? The Magnificent Seven, its three sequels, and Denzel Washington’s remake. Sci-fi? Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond the Stars, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, and George Lucas’ Star Wars. Animation? A ...

Akira Kurosawa made movies from the 1940s until the 1990s, with classics like Ran and High and Low being the best he made in ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've seen William Shakespeare's timeless "Macbeth" reimagined through, among other takes, feudal Japanese Noh (Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood") and small town greasy spoon unchecked ambition ...