History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and many others). Unfortunately, as fantastic as these ...

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

Released in Japan 75 years ago, the film that proved the director’s international breakthrough stars a charismatic Toshiro ...

Epic movies often look spectacular, but some classics go the extra mile, including the likes of Ran, Lawrence of Arabia, and ...

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.

I was first introduced to Akira Kurosawa's work in a Film Literature class I took in high school. We were shown a scene from the 1954 film, "Seven Samurai," considered one of his masterpieces, and I ...

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 ...

Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time and now two of his best films, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, are finally available in a 4K Blu-ray Criterion Collection set. Even ...

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.

Spike Lee spoke about his upcoming film “Highest 2 Lowest” – which will see the director reunite with lead actor Denzel Washington – during an on-stage talk Tuesday at the Red Sea Film Festival, where ...