The director's latest, a supercharged ransom thriller set in his beloved New York City, shows the filmmaker reinvigorated and ...

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington get charged with the immense responsibility of bringing back a classic Akira Kurosawa ...

Spike Lee’s version of Akira Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low,’ which also stars A$AP Rocky, is set to hit theaters on Aug. 15 ahead ...

A24 has dropped the first full trailer for 'Highest to Lowest,' a gripping modern reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 ...

Spike Lee's remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller High to Low had Cannes Film Festival abuzz in May. And now, with ...

One of the best-reviewed films out of Cannes is ready for its August debut.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa's epic is still breathtaking.

Kurosawa Akira brought Japanese cinema to international attention in the 1950s, and has had a lasting influence on film ever since. Critic Tsuzuki Masaaki identifies how justice, love, and the ...

Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I, by Shinobu Hashimoto, Translated by Lori Hitchcock Morimoto. 256 pages Vertical, Nonfiction.

“Akira Kurosawa was said to be a ‘heavy-handed arrogant despot,’ wearing tinted glasses and almost not smiling,” Solomin told the Voice of Russia in an interview in 2010.