“Akira Kurosawa” Archives

Akira Kurosawa spent ten years storyboarding every shot in this, his final historical epic, as a se…

An extensive collector’s edition of Kurosawa’s Shakespearean epic will also be released in Europe.

I’m not sure what else there is to say about Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai at this point. The film…

The restoration marks the legendary film’s 70th anniversary.

Hopefully, FX’s latest hit series will inspire more people to check out samurai cinema. Here are some places to start.

Two of the master’s classic samurai epics are being digitally restored from the original materials.

Kurosawa’s film takes on topics and expounds upon themes that could have easily come from that most existential of books: Ecclesiastes.