Akira Kurosawa was a seismic force, the kind of artist who makes other artists question their craft. Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, Tarantino—you name it, they all bow, one way or another, to the man who ...

Takao Saito, cameraman on many of Akira Kurosawa‘s biggest films, died on Dec. 6 of lymphocytic cancer at the age of 85.. Saito began working with Kurosawa soon after he entered Toho Studio ...

Director Akira Kurosawa and star Toshiro Mifune did some of their finest work together with this pair of films from the early ...

But Akira Kurosawa’s telling of the tale is masterly. ... Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni, the film boasts the talents of composer Fumio Hayasaka and cinematographer Asaichi Nakai.

They don’t make them like Akira Kurosawa’s magisterial “Ran” anymore, but the truth is, they didn’t really make them like this regal epic back then either. Now screening in a new 4K ...

Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-99) pushed Japanese cinema to its ...

Why ‘Living’ Star Bill Nighy Is a Cinematographer’s Dream: ... Oliver Hermanus’s “Living,” a 1950s-set remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film “Ikiru,” translates the Japanese ...

Akira Kurosawa’s legendary film Seven Samurai is making a grand comeback with a breathtaking 4K restoration. ... providing exceptional clarity and depth to Asakazu Nakai’s striking cinematography.

Oliver Hermanus’s “Living,” a 1950s-set remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film “Ikiru,” translates the Japanese master’s backdrop to the same time frame in which the earlier film ...