Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon is selected for competition at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, scoops the top prize and, in the process, allows the critics to finally discover Japanese cinema. Within the year an Academy Award for this 'Most Outstanding...

Leone adapted Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai film "Yojimbo" into "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), moving the story from medieval Japan to the American Southwest and replacing Kurosawa's wandering samurai with a nameless, gun-slinging drifter. The film...

When you come to such a pause (say, the long gaps between attacks in Seven Samurai, or the lingering shots of landscapes in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams [1990]), consider its impact upon the sequential progression of the film. How would the texture of the...

My films, like my life, are summed up in circus, spaghetti, sex, and cinema.” Both men were honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York—Fellini in 1985, Antonioni in 1992—and directors around the world, from Akira Kurosawa to Ingmar...

Shakespeare Company at New Jersey City University will present “Shakespeare on Screen: Throne of Blood,” the final event in a series of free screenings of films based on or inspired by a play by the world’s most famous playwright. Akira Kurosawa’s 1957...

The problem is that what was so eye-popping then, TV shows can do now. When Lucas discusses creating the franchise, he always cites the influence of the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, or Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," a...