No director in cinema history mastered the literary adaptation like Akira Kurosawa, but Edgar Allan Poe remained agonisingly out of reach.

The Japanese director copies himself in a film that changes the language (and nothing else) of the film he shot in 1998. There is always something disturbing in that strange and never fully explained ...

I wanted [it] to be anchored much more to reality,” Kurosawa told me, “ordinary people, ordinary lives.” Yet those around ...

The Kadokawa Cultural Museum, in Tokorozawa city north of Tokyo, fuses museums of art, anime and oddities with a huge, reader ...

Not many directors would claim to be as gifted as Akira Kurosawa, but John Woo named the one filmmaker he believed was up ...

The 2024 Beyond Fest lineup has officially been unveiled, and fans are ready for a spooky good festival. The genre film ...

By Jordan Mintzer Although he’s primarily known as a director of thrillers and horror movies, Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa has never made regular genre flicks. There’s always a twist ...

Venice: The director of "Cure" and "Pulse" switches things into a slightly higher gear with a bullet-filled story about the petty grievances people develop towards each other online. If Kurosawa ...

Astro Bot is one of the most entertaining and depressing games I’ve played in ages. It’s a loud, unrestrained explosion of ...