Topic: Akira Kurosawa
Want to make a great film someday but not sure how to go about it? Every time you watch a good film you wish that you could make one yourself? Fret not! Filmmaking is accessible to anyone who has the talent and the focus to make a movie. However, filmmaking is not like shooting a shaky home video. It requires ...
Fans of Japan's best-known director Akira Kurosawa now have access to an online treasure trove of thousands of photos, sketches and other materials from the film-maker's life. A digital archive of 20,000 items went live on the Internet this week, ranging from private photos and newspaper clippings to notes and sketches of movie scenes, the website's ...
If you only know one thing about Rashomon, chances are it won't be who wrote or directed it or even the story. No, the big thing about Rashomon is how the story is told. It was, and indeed still is, a revolutionary narrative conceit: a series of mysterious events that, when retold from different, unreliable vantage points, reveals new ...
Ikiru (1952, 143 min, PG) Directed by Akira Kurosawa; starring Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki An established masterpiece, Ikiru was made in 1952, between Rashomon and Seven Samurai, and stars Takashi Shimura. He played the woodcutter in Rashomon, leader of the Seven Samurai and in Ikiru he's a crabbed, middle-aged civil servant suddenly faced with his imminent death ...
