These films—including ‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘The Smashing Machine,’ and ‘Jay Kelly’—will decide the fate of awards season.

Japanese directing legend Akira Kurosawa risked falling out with the whole industry in order to make sure Mifune made it ...

Bill Hader, director Oliver Hermanus and other Kurosawa enthusiasts pick must-see and deep-cut films by the Japanese master ...

However, even if you watch the more popular Kurosawa movies, like Rashomon, Kagemusha, and Seven Samurai, you might not be ...

One of Kurosawa's best films is Throne of Blood, a Shakespearean drama that also happens to be an underrated supernatural ...

Spike Lee's latest masterpiece, Highest 2 Lowest, delivers an epic ending but fails to immortalize itself in the same way as ...

For his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema’s most iconic ...

Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have played a decisive role in the development of narrative cinema, but his contributions are as much a result of good timing as good ...

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is exactly what it sounds like: an anthology film composed of dreams Kurosawa had throughout his life, presented with much of the visual splendor left over from Ran ...

Akira Kurosawa was reluctant to openly discuss his personal life. He felt, like many filmmakers and artists, that everything one might want to know about him is there within his work. In his book ...