TV Guide: Akira Kurosawa

Listing: Ran

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:30:00 -0500

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Listing: Seven Samurai

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500

Sat Nov 28 08:00 AM IFC

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Trailer Addict — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left to live. He is completely alone in the world -- his wife is dead, his son is practically estranged, and his co-workers are little more than strangers. Rather than face a death alone in pathos, Shimura opts to make up for lost time by going to the bar, spending every last yen in his wallet and drinking himself to death. There he meets a black-clad artist who leads him on a hellish tour of the city after dark as the two crawl through every booze-soaked juke-joint in town.

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Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Akira Kurosawa's Academy Award-winning production is a testament to the value of friendship and the indomitability of the human spirit. An old hunter is hired as a guide by a party of Russian soldiers on a surveying expedition through Siberia.

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Associated Press — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Highlights of this day in history: President William McKinley shot in Buffalo, N.Y.; Funeral held for Britain's Princess Diana; Mother Teresa mourned in India; Movie director Akira Kurosawa dies; Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame born. (Sept. 6)

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Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

One of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride is a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope.

Video: Kagemusha -- (Movie Clip) I Can See Kyoto!

TCM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Ailing warlord Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai) has a last gasp revelation as he's carried toward Kyoto, in Akira Kurosawa's medieval epic Kagemusha, 1980.

Video: Kagemusha -- (Movie Clip) Nobunaga

TCM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Virile warlord Nobunaga (Daisuke Ryu) isn't convinced that rival Shingen Takeda is really dead, in an early scene from Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha, 1980.

Video: Kagemusha -- (Movie Clip) I Will Not Die!

TCM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Even as his double inspires his troops, warlord Shingen Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai) assures his council that he has no intention of dying, in Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha, 1980.

Video: Kagemusha -- (Movie Clip) 1573

TCM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The remarkable first action sequence, following the prologue, as a muddy soldier races through a sleeping garrison in Akira Kurosawa's medieval epic Kagemusha, 1980.

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NY Times — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A. O. Scott investigates themes of dissolution in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 masterpiece.

Video: Rashomon -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits

TCM — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Classical Japanese music by Fumio Hayasaka introduces the rainy medieval world of director Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon, 1950.

Video: Seven Samurai, The -- (Movie Clip) Funeral