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 ...

‘Rashomon’ at 75: How Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece influenced everything from ‘Frasier’ to ‘The X-Files’ to ‘Weapons’ Shifting perspectives. Unreliable narrators. A mystery that doesn't have easy ...

Akira Kurosawa was a filmmaker who generally prioritized quality over quantity, especially in the second half of his filmmaking career, when he was less prolific (a bit like the similarly legendary ...

The 92nd Academy Awards awarded “Parasite” the best picture Oscar, the first ever for a foreign-language film. Since then, international cinema has experienced a marked increase in prominence in the ...

Akira Kurosawa is frequently referred to as “Emperor”—hyperbolic, sure, but when it comes to the director’s staggeringly influential, detailed and versatile body of work, the truth catches up to the ...

With Spike Lee’s buzzy Highest 2 Lowest riding high in theaters, there’s never been a better time to revisit—or get acquainted with—Akira Kurosawa, the great Japanese filmmaker behind the film’s ...