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Blog Posts That Mention Kurosawa
Features
The People from the Sea: How “The Odyssey” is About America
Interviews
Advance to Paradise, Retreat to Hell: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on “The Samurai and the Prisoner”
Festivals & Awards
Freaks, Samurais, and Vampires: Our 10 Most Anticipated of Fantasia 2026
Black Writers Week
The Urban Environment: A Conversation with Tatsu Aoki, Avant-Garde Filmmaker
Tributes
The Woman Who Saved “Star Wars”: Marcia Lucas (1945-2026)
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2026: The Bride!, Wuthering Heights, Sentimental Value, More
Festivals & Awards
Ten Great Performances of Cannes 2026
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #1: The 79th Cannes Film Festival Begins!
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide April 2026: Send Help, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Highest 2 Lowest, More
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Announces 2026 Program with New Films by Pedro Almodovar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Asghar Farhadi, More
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide February 2026: “Predator: Badlands,” “Song Song Blue,” “A Little Prayer,” More
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Sato and Sato,” “Blue Boy Trial,” “Poca Pon,” “Blonde”
Far Flungers
The Darkest Samurai Film Ever Made: Toshio Matsumoto’s “Shura”
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
Video Games
“The Ghost of Yōtei” is One of the Most Cinematic Games of the Year
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: “28 Years Later,” “Materialists,” “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” More
Features
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk “Highest 2 Lowest”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
DVD/Blu-Ray
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
Features
The 10 Best Horror Films of 2024
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2024
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: “Apollon by Day, Athena by Night,” “Underground,” “Emmanuelle”
Festivals & Awards
J-Horror Lives: Introducing “Missing Child Videotape” Director Ryota Kondo
Features
Apocalypse Then: Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Godzilla Turns 70
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Orang Ikan, Missing Child Videotape, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: Cloud, Grafted, Parvulos
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Festivals & Awards
The 10 Most Intriguing Titles at the 2024 Venice Film Festival
Features
Seven Samurai Continues Its Ride Through Cinema’s Past and Future
MZS
Furiosa Doesn’t Feel Like Any Other Mad Max Film, and That’s What’s Wonderful About It
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Normal Normal or Cannes Normal?
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2024 Video #2: The Festival Takes Off
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Tributes
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
Interviews
Death Feels Very Close: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist
MZS
It’s OK For Movies to Just End
Video Games
Rise of the Ronin Wastes Interesting Setting with Clunky Gameplay
Festivals & Awards
Japanese Horror Comes to the Film Forum
Far Flungers
On the Sustained Emotional Strength of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2023
Features
Creatures of the Id: Celebrating Ishirō Honda’s 1968 Masterpiece, Destroy All Monsters
Chaz at Cannes
Five Great Tales from Cannes’ Past
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2023
Features
A Road Paved with Bloodshed: High Plains Drifter Turns 50
Interviews
The Whole Gag is Excess: Chad Stahelski on John Wick: Chapter 4
Tributes
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
Tributes
Tom Luddy (1943-2023)
Features
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
Interviews
Tragedy Actually Brings Hope: Bill Nighy on Living
Features
Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022
Far Flungers
Looking Back at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Movie Edition
Festivals & Awards
Major Questions of the 2022 Oscar Race After TIFF
Festivals & Awards
Roger’s Top Ten Lists: Best Films of the 1980s
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World, Living, Call Jane
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
TV/Streaming
First Four Laika Releases Get Special Edition Blu-rays
Video Games
Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut Expands Gorgeous Game
Tributes
Sonny Chiba: 1939-2021
Features
Bringing Out the Dead: A Pandemic Dialogue
Chaz's Journal
Medium’s David Bates Remembers Roger Ebert
Features
The 10 Best Films for National Paranormal Day
Interviews
Magical Feelings of East Meets West: Sion Sono on Prisoners of the Ghostland
Chaz's Journal
Meet the Writers: Carlos Aguilar
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
Interviews
The Art Takes You Out of This: RZA on Cut Throat City
Video Games
Sony’s Ghost of Tsushima Pays Homage to Samurai Cinema
Features
Nausicaä Awakens: The Influence of Hayao Miyazaki on the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
MZS
Smile When You Say That: Joker’s Last Laugh
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2019: A Year of Milestones
Interviews
Takashi Miike on First Love, Directing 103 Films, Subconscious Inspirations and More
Festivals & Awards
Venice 2019: The King, About Endlessness, Babyteeth
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 11, 2019
Festivals & Awards
A Sneak Peek at The Mandalorian from Star Wars Celebration Chicago
Features
Book Review: The Star Wars Archives 1977-1983
Interviews
John McNaughton on 1993’s Mad Dog & Glory, Directing Robert De Niro, the Loss of Luke Perry and More
TV/Streaming
The Best Current Source for Streaming Classic Movies is … Amazon Prime?
MZS
Beata Virgo Viscera: a Feature-Length Unloved Video Essay by Scout Tafoya
Interviews
Gareth Evans on the Brutal Violence and Practical Effects of Apostle
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2018: The Slows, In My Room, Sorry Angel, Too Late to Die Young
Festivals & Awards
2018 Japan Cuts Festival Preview
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 5, 2018
Features
Book Review: People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 1, 2018
TV/Streaming
Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s “100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012”
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2017: “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” “Before We Vanish”
Festivals & Awards
2017 Japan Cuts Festival Preview
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 22, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “Happy End,” “The Meyerowitz Stories,” “Before We Vanish”
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2017: “Hysteria,” “The Handmaiden,” “Elle”
Features
Thumbnails 2/20/17
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 5, 2017
Features
Make it To Shore: The Staff Says Goodbye to Carrie Fisher
Festivals & Awards
The Macau Film Festival 2016: Classics in the “Crossfire” Sidebar, A Mexican Found Footage Horror Film and More
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 17, 2016
Interviews
A Living Legend: Tatsuya Nakadai on “Sword of Doom”
Interviews
