Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo was remade just three years later, but it wasn't the first time his work had been reimagined in ...

Specifically, it borrows heavily from the works of Akira Kurosawa—the director who practically invented the modern image of the samurai on screen. From its cinematography to its storytelling ...

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life ...