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

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 ...

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

Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa has long been fascinated by the way tech impacts our lives, and in Cloud, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, he examines those people you love to ...

I don't think it's a stretch to say that most film enthusiasts have likely seen at least one Akira Kurosawa picture, if not several. However, while I've seen all of those movies (and many other ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Pulse,” “Cure”) has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness — often malevolence — gathering like dust in the ...

An action film as only “Cure” and “Pulse” director Kiyoshi Kurosawa would think to make one, “Cloud” leverages the social disaffection at the heart of his analog horror masterpieces into a sterile — ...