Showing posts with label Akira Kurosawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Akira Kurosawa. Show all posts
Friday 3 May 2024

Kurosawa, Tarkovsky and Solaris

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Solaris (Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky) ‘I was on very intimate terms with Tarkovsky. I always felt like he was my younger brother. ...
Monday 2 May 2022

Kurosawa on Kurosawa

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Seven Samurai (Directed by Akira Kurosawa) The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, described by Stephen Spielberg as ‘the pictorial ...
Monday 4 April 2022

Akira Kurosowa: How Rashomon Was Made

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Rashomon (Directed by Akira Kurosawa) A woman is  brutally assaulted and her samurai husband is slain in a jungle by a bandit. The woman...
Friday 28 January 2022

Akira Kurosawa: Some Random Notes on Screenwriting

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Akira Kurosawa, Japan's most acclaimed filmmaker, created an astounding body of work that stands as a testament to artistic brilliance...
Tuesday 7 September 2021

Akira Kurosawa: On Screenwriting

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Red Beard (Directed by Akira Kurosawa) In October 1990, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez visited Tokyo during the shooting ...
Wednesday 19 May 2021

Akira Kurosawa: An Interview with “The Emperor of Celluloid”

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Madadayo (Directed by Akira Kurosawa) Akira Kurosawa, who was born in Tokyo in 1910, is widely regarded as the father of modern Japanese cin...
Monday 4 January 2021

Kurosawa: Some Random Notes on Filmmaking

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Kurosawa first came to international attention with the 1948 film Yoidore Tenshi (Drunken Angel), a melodrama that mixes desperation and ...