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Online Film Club 2009 - Schedule
As you may remember, a while back I asked you to vote for the Akira Kurosawa Film Club’s 2009 schedule. And although there were only three actual votes, it was enough to take me almost a week to ponder over the results. But good things are worth waiting for, and looking at next year’s...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Kurosawa’s paintings in Paris
The first of the AK100 events seems to already have started, with the exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris. Here is a short description in French and in English with further details. You can also download a French language PDF brochure about the event: click here.
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Published 3 weeks ago

Ikiru: Film Club #7
The stomach on the left belongs to the protagonist of this month’s edition of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club. Yes, it is November and therefore time for the 7th edition of our very own Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club! The proceedings are the same as before �" you watch the movie, you...
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Published 4 weeks ago

“High and Low” remake moves forward: Mike Nichols to direct
Variety reports that the often mentioned Hollywood remake of High and Low is once again moving forward, with Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, most recently Charlie Wilson’s War) set to direct for Miramax Films. With David Mamet (The Untouchables, The Verdict, most...
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Published a month ago

2008 Akira Kurosawa award winners
This year’s Akira Kurosawa Lifetime Achievement Award has been given to Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov and Chen Kaige at the Tokyo Film Festival. The recipients were chosen by a panel that included costume designer and Akira Kurosawa’s daughter Kazuko Kurosawa. Variety has more about the...
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Published a month ago

Optimum releases ‘Rashomon: Special Edition’ on Monday
UK’s Optimum Releasing is putting out a new Region 2 edition of Rashomon, coming out on October 13. Amazon.co.uk takes pre-orders (£11.98), while the film is also available from Optimum’s webshop (£19.99). The release comes with an introduction by the Ireland based English film maker John...
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Published 2 months ago

Japanese ‘After the Rain’ and ‘Dreams’ releases
A new Japanese DVD release of After the Rain appears to be on its way, with Amazon.co.jp indicating an October 24 release. In case you have no idea what I am talking about, After the Rain (Ame agaru, 1999) was the first film to be made from a Kurosawa script after his death. It was directed by...
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Published 2 months ago

KINO’s Dersu Uzala released as part of a box set
What is perhaps the best of a sorry lot, Kino International’s Dersu Uzala DVD (Region 1) will be re-released on December 9 as part of a “Great Directors” box set. Amazon.com takes pre-orders. I have confirmed from Kino that this is, indeed, just a repackaging of their original release, so...
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Published 2 months ago

Red Bearded October (Film Club #6)
October’s here, and I would therefore like to invite you all to the sixth edition of our monthly Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club. This month, we will be facing what is probably our most challenging task yet: Red Beard (Akahige). There is much that could be said about Red Beard �" and I hope...
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Published 2 months ago

‘Seven Samurai’ stage adaptation, a Chinese homage
Some further tiny news bits: An adaptation of Samurai 7, based on Seven Samurai, will be staged at the Shinjuku Koma Stadium in Tokyo in November this year. (source) Meanwhile, the recently wrapped Chinese film Ku Zhu Lin is apparently some sort of an homage to Seven Samurai. I do not seem to...
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Published 2 months ago