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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

In the movies of Akira Kurosawa, distinctions between "action" and "drama" are meaningless. Sure, he was an unparalleled master at choreographing onscreen mayhem — even today's flicks borrow ...