Tokyo Film Festival is presenting several films which were favourites of Akira Kurosawa, whom the award is named after, ...

Director Koji Fukada became one of the first recipients of the Akira Kurosawa Award in 14 years at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The honorary prize was revived this year as a ...

One can attribute part of its success to American obsessions with samurai films — Akira Kurosawa's Rashomonand Seven Samuraiwere earning raves around the same time — but Gate of Hell also ...

Hamaguchi, 43, is the third Japanese director who was nominated for best director at the Academy Awards. Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa became the second Japanese director ...

Akira Kurosawa’s centenary is upon us, and Rizzoli is celebrating in grand style with this exquisitely packaged, image-laden homage to the man and his multifaceted work. Rolling out the big guns, it ...