There is a scene in Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (1954) in which bandits attack a village. The studio location had suffered a snowstorm before filming, leaving an impression on cast and crew alike ...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film “Ikiru” has acquired a reputation as a corrective — “this is the one that will remind you what matters” — and reputations like that tend to flatten what is most unsettling ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle is a tremendous achievement that required an unfathomable amount of work and skill from the team at Japanese anime studio Ufotable. Not only was ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

The Mexican director of 'Pan's Labyrinth,' 'The Shape of Water' and 'Frankenstein' will receive the highest accolade of the British Film Institute at an event in London next year. By Scott Roxborough ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, beloved star of Japan’s golden age of cinema and a frequent collaborator of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, has died aged 92. The actor, who rose to fame working with Japanese ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated stage and screen actors who was a frequent collaborator of director Masaki Kobayashi and led Akira Kurosawa titles such as “Ran,” “Kagemusha” and “High ...

Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who was best known internationally for his role in Akiro Kurosawa’s 1985 epic drama Ran, has died in Tokyo at the age of 92. Local media reported that the actor died on ...

He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era. He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Seventy-five years ago, Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” opened in Japan. The film revolutionized the structure and grammar of modern cinema as surely as Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” had a decade earlier, ...