When people think of Akira Kurosawa, they usually think of his samurai films, but his masterpiece is this crime thriller that most people forget.

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, beloved star of Japan’s golden age of cinema and a frequent collaborator of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, has died aged 92. The actor, who rose to fame working with Japanese ...

Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who was best known internationally for his role in Akiro Kurosawa’s 1985 epic drama Ran, has died in Tokyo at the age of 92. Local media reported that the actor died on ...

He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era. He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated stage and screen actors who was a frequent collaborator of director Masaki Kobayashi and led Akira Kurosawa titles such as “Ran,” “Kagemusha” and “High ...

Seventy-five years ago, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” opened in Japan. The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Official image from ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ courtesy of A24. The first act of Akira Kurosawa’s “High ...

Seeing cinematic inspiration in video games is nothing new. In 1988, Snatcher saw a young Hideo Kojima doing the best Blade Runner impression that the MSX2 platform would allow; even Spielberg himself ...