Akira Kurosawa’s Rashmon: A Comparison Between the Groundbreaking Film and Short Story
Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashamon is loosely based on two short stories by Ryuonsuke Akutagawa. The main story of the film is based on In the … Read more
Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashamon is loosely based on two short stories by Ryuonsuke Akutagawa. The main story of the film is based on In the … Read more
Ran is Kurosawa’s last masterpiece from a man who made many. He made three more films afterwards, but none came close to the size and … Read more
Akira Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910 to the descendents of a samurai family, with seven brothers and sisters. His childhood was marred repeatedly … Read more
Turner Classic Movies recently presented the classic film Rashomon, a Japanese psychological drama directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film is done in the Japanese language … Read more
What is a dream? Some might call it a reflection of one’s subconscious. Others might call it a deep seeded regret, want, or desire. Others … Read more
On the 65th anniversary of the Hollywood blacklist, Sean Penn wrote an article for The Hollywood Reporter discussing his blacklisted father, Leon Penn. In the … Read more
I started writing a short history for each of the Top 100 films on the American Film Institutes list, and then I realized that the … Read more
Takashi Miike, Japanese director of several cult and horror films such as “Ichi the Killer,” has taken an old samurai film, “Harakiri” by Masaki Kobayashi, … Read more