Akira Kurosawa
-
5 out of 5 stars.
Alexis Petridis's album of the week Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury review – country's outlaw catches fire
5 out of 5 stars.Another big shift in direction for Simpson, with anime visuals, glam rock, disco and grunge ornamenting never-more-country lyrics: it’s extraordinary
-
Akira Kurosawa epic beats Bicycle Thieves to top of BBC’s 100-strong list that includes just four female-directed films
-
War changed everything, destroying whole film industries and heralding a new era of realism, grit and shoots on location
-
5 out of 5 stars.The Japanese film-maker’s adaptation of King Lear is still visually and dramatically breathtaking
-
5 out of 5 stars.Staggering battle sequences, thrones of blood and the spirit of Macbeth are abroad in one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare
-
Newly restored three decades after its initial release, the Japanese director’s feudal warlord story remains bleak, brutal and breathtaking
-
Watch the trailer for a 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s take on King Lear, set amid the civil war of 16th-century Japan1:04
-
The singer-songwriter on the French band Téléphone, Salman Rushdie’s latest novel and Kurosawa’s stunning Throne of Blood
-
Muse of Yasujuro Ozu who rose to fame in the 1930s and 40s was a key face of Japan’s postwar cinematic revival
-
One of Japan’s most popular actors of the postwar years, admired for her performances in the films of Yasujiro Ozu, including Tokyo Story
-
Film-makers around the world have re-imagined the Bard’s plays with staggering results. Here are five of the best
-
Focusing mainly on the films, Wild’s study is a succinct portrayal of the intensely private director Scorsese calls ‘my master’, writes PD Smith
-
Ben Child: Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua will direct Washington as a gun-slinging guardian angel in remake of John Sturges’s 1960 western
-
Philip French: Kurosawa's tale of a 16th-century village under attack is one of the 20th-century's finest works of art
-
The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave has pushed back the boundaries of film because of the fearlessness that comes with a background in art
-
Everybody is kung-fu fighting for sure, but it takes more than that to make a great martial arts movie. The Hlcarpenter.com and Observer critics pick the 10 finest ever made
-
War is hell, for sure, but war can make for undeniably brilliant movie-making. Here, the Hlcarpenter.com and Observer's critics pick the ten best
The classic film I've never seen I've never seen … The Magnificent Seven