'Yojimbo' At 60: Akira Kurosawa's Samurai Classic Still Packs A Masterful Punch
A wandering ronin strolls into a town divided by violent, warrning gangs. And a masterpiece begins. This is Yojimbo at 60.
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The Quarantine Stream: 'High And Low' Is A Terrific Kidnapping Thriller From Akira Kurosawa
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they've been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: High and Low Where You Can Stream It: The Criterion Channel The Pitch: After making two back-to-back samurai classics, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, director Akira Kurosawa switched into contemporary mode to make High…
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10 Great Filmmakers Who Never Won The Academy Award For Best Director
The 2020 Academy Awards are this weekend, so let's celebrate by counting down some great directors who haven't won Oscars.
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Amblin Entertainment Is Turning Akira Kurosawa's Classic 'Rashomon' Into A TV Show
Amblin Entertainment is developing a Rashomon TV show based on director Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed 1950 classic film. But is this a terrible idea?
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'Cops Undercover': Watch An Exclusive FilmStruck Video Highlighting Crime Drama Films
FilmStruck has a new line-up devoted to crime dramas focused on Cops Undercover. In honor of the line-up, we're running an exclusive FilmStruck video.
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Now Stream This: A Kurosawa Classic, The Best Horror-Comedy Ever Made And A Classy Spy Thriller
Here are the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, FilmStruck, Hulu and more, including classics, new hits, horror, comedy, and more.
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The Morning Watch: The VFX Of David Fincher, When Kurosawa Met Miyazaki & More
The Morning Watch takes a look at the invisible visual effects of David Fincher's movies, what happened when Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazai and more.
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Interview: Kevin Feige & Amy Pascal Talk 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'
In our Spider-Man: Homecoming Interview with producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal, we talk about the influences on the film including Back to the Future.
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Exploring The Japanese Roots Of 'Star Wars'
It's no secret that George Lucas was inspired by Akira Kurosawa, but the Star Wars Japanese influences run much deeper than that.
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Cool Stuff: Kevin Tong's Print For Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran'
Kevin Tong's Ran print brings Akira Kurosawa's last great masterpiece back to live in vivid beauty. Find out where you can get this poster.
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Annotated 'Star Wars' Mashes Original Film With Its References
Check out this Annotated Star Wars video, which takes the whole movie and edits it together with the references that inspired George Lucas.
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VOTD: Five Hours Of B-Roll Featuring Akira Kurosawa Directing 'Ran'
While we're lucky to live in a time where so many legendary filmmakers make their work and process accessible, there will always be a mystery behind some of the masters. Filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Frank Capra and many others passed away long before the age of video blogs, Twitter and behind…
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Zack Snyder Denies 'Star Wars' Samurai Movie Report [Updated]
UPDATE: As expected, Zack Snyder's representatives told The Hollywood Reporter the following information is untrue. The original story follows with the addendum. As Zack Snyder is busy finishing a film in the DC Universe, news has now been revealed he'll move over to the Star Wars universe soon after. Though the director of 300 and Watchmen won't…
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Splendent Media Selling Remake Rights For 69 Akira Kurosawa Films
This is a story I'd just like to ignore, in the hopes that pretending it isn't happening will decrease the chances of any sale actually going down. But it is already all over the place, so might as well stare it right in the face. A new-ish company called Splendent Media is now repping the…
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Scott Mann Will Direct The 'Seven Samurai' Remake, Moving The Action To Modern Thailand
I'm not going to say that remaking a stone-cold classic like Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is a fool's errand. After all, some guy named Sergio Leone remade another Kurosawa classic, Yojimbo, and produced a classic of his own, A Fistful of Dollars, in doing so. Still, does it seem like a good idea? Not so…
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VOTD: 'Everything Is A Remix'
Thanks to DVD, compression software and services like YouTube and Vimeo, technology has changed the way we ingest visual content. But it hasn't done as much as I'd like to the way we understand it. Take the Everything is a Remix project, by editor Kirby Ferguson. The second installment was released this week, and it…
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Criterion To Release Akira Kurosawa's Ran On Blu-Ray
Criterion Collection has announced that they will be releasing Akira Kurosawa's Ran on Blu-Ray in May. The release will include: Restored high-definition digital transfer, with an uncompressed stereo soundtrack Audio commentary featuring film scholar Stephen Prince An appreciation of the film by director Sidney Lumet A.K., a 74-minute film by director Chris Marker A 30-minute…
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