However, even if you watch the more popular Kurosawa movies, like Rashomon, Kagemusha, and Seven Samurai, you might not be ...

Japanese directing legend Akira Kurosawa risked falling out with the whole industry in order to make sure Mifune made it ...

Before Highest 2 Lowest, check out Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which inspired Denzel Washington and Spike Lee’s latest.

With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee joins Martin Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho, and Steven Soderbergh as a scholar of Akira ...

I came away more disappointed than enchanted by “Highest 2 Lowest,” IR movie reviewer Brent Northup says. "I had set the bar ...

Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have played a decisive role in the development of narrative cinema, but his contributions are as much a result of good timing as good ...

Akira Kurosawa was reluctant to openly discuss his personal life. He felt, like many filmmakers and artists, that everything one might want to know about him is there within his work. In his book ...

Kurosawa, who is not related to “Seven Samurai” and “Rashomon,” director Akira Kurosawa, said period pieces are difficult to make due to the extraordinary costs of sets, props and costuming.

George Lucas has acknowledged that Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress inspired parts of his own saga. Nicholas Barber looks at just how far the similarities go. It’s a brilliantly ...