Akira Kurosawa
Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama
A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis
Peter Bradshaw
02, Nov, 2022 @2:50 PM
Macbeth movies have been foul and fair – Joel Coen’s is a stunner
The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles’s bold 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare’s text into more than just a costume epic
Michael Billington
25, Jan, 2022 @6:43 AM
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
The best Shakespeare films – ranked!
Kenneth Branagh graduates from player to playwright this week for All is True, in which he plays an ailing Bard. But which big-screen Shakey is the greatest?
Andrew Dickson
08, Feb, 2019 @6:00 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
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