Akira Kurosawa
Emi Wada obituary
Costume designer who won an Oscar for Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, and created John Gielgud’s cloak in Prospero’s Books
Ryan Gilbey
02, Dec, 2021 @6:20 PM
Seven Samurai review – an epic primal myth that pulsates through cinema
Akira Kurosawa’s tale of ascetic mercenaries brought together for a single job inspired endless imitations, but the original has lost none of its magic
Peter Bradshaw
27, Oct, 2021 @1:00 PM
I've never seen … The Magnificent Seven
In one sense this is a glorified rip-off that guts Kurosawa’s thoughtful original, repackages it with a stylish title and fills it with guns … but it’s fun!
Alfie Packham
12, May, 2020 @11:00 AM
Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury review – country's outlaw catches fire
Another big shift in direction for Simpson, with anime visuals, glam rock, disco and grunge ornamenting never-more-country lyrics: it’s extraordinary
Alexis Petridis
26, Sep, 2019 @11:00 AM
Seven Samurai tops critics' poll of best foreign-language films
Akira Kurosawa epic beats Bicycle Thieves to top of BBC’s 100-strong list that includes just four female-directed films
Andrew Pulver
01, Nov, 2018 @1:57 PM
From The Naked City to Double Indemnity – why the 1940s is my favourite film decade
War changed everything, destroying whole film industries and heralding a new era of realism, grit and shoots on location
John Patterson
28, Mar, 2018 @5:00 AM
Ingmar Bergman's Sixty-Four Minutes With Rebecka: intriguing, sexy and intense
The newly discovered screenplay suggests the then 51-year-old film-maker reacting to the sexual liberation of the 1960s in characteristic fashion
Peter Bradshaw
27, Oct, 2016 @4:31 PM
Previously unknown Ingmar Bergman script to be filmed by former antagonist
1969 screenplay for Sixty-Four Minutes With Rebecka was intended as a collaboration with fellow auteurs Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa
Alan Evans
27, Oct, 2016 @4:03 PM
Ran review – Kurosawa’s masterful epic reissued
The Japanese film-maker’s adaptation of King Lear is still visually and dramatically breathtaking
Jonathan Romney
03, Apr, 2016 @7:00 AM
Ran review – re-release of Kurosawa's dark, epic version of King Lear
Staggering battle sequences, thrones of blood and the spirit of Macbeth are abroad in one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare
Peter Bradshaw
31, Mar, 2016 @9:15 PM
Ran: Akira Kurosawa’s last great masterpiece
Newly restored three decades after its initial release, the Japanese director’s feudal warlord story remains bleak, brutal and breathtaking
John Patterson
28, Mar, 2016 @8:00 AM
On my radar: Marianne Faithfull’s cultural highlights
The singer-songwriter on the French band Téléphone, Salman Rushdie’s latest novel and Kurosawa’s stunning Throne of Blood
Michael Hogan
10, Jan, 2016 @10:00 AM
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