Ubuntu Theater Project’s Rashomon builds on the short story that Akira Kurosawa’s film made famous.
Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa’s muse, was a badass.
“I think all stories have been around for a few thousand years,” George Lucas once said, in an interview about Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden…
The first warning sign of San Francisco's utter noirness is how ruthlessly, perhaps desperately, this place pretends never to have black moods. The second…
The name Akira Kurosawa means one thing to most people: samurai films. So it's no surprise that the various local celebrations of the director's…
In the annals of audacious counterprogramming, it’s hard to beat a Yasujiro Ozu series going up against Hollywood’s summer onslaught of infantile antics and…
Usually, when we encounter the samurai in works of art, we are watching something by Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino, or George Lucas (just scratch…
