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Yojimbo’s Remake Gets a Remake	22 July 2024
Seven Samurai Returns to Cinemas in the US	12 July 2024
High and Low Remake with Spike Lee and Denzel Washington in the works	9 February 2024
Toho releasing Kurosawa films in 4K Ultra HD in Japan	14 March 2023
Book review: Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan	1 October 2022

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Kurosawa documentary looking for funding for an English version	September 23	2
Hashimoto’s Compound Cinematics paperback reprinting	September 16	3
Netflix anime Onimusha has CGI Mifune	August 31	4
Yojimbo’s Remake Gets a Remake	August 16	7
Too bad Takemitsu only scored two Kurosawa works	July 11	6
Help finding notes on translation of "Seven Samurai?"	3 June 2024	8
Ran “Deep Dive” by The Cinema Cartography	26 February 2024	2

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Recent & Upcoming Events

September, 2021	Cult director Takashi Miike brings back Kurosawa's Drunken Angel as a stage production in Japan, with a September 3 opening. More information here.
July 20, 2020	Video game Ghost of Tsushima released with a Kurosawa mode sanctioned by the Kurosawa Estate. The mode makes the game look and behave more like a Kurosawa film.
2018-2020	Japanese publisher Asahi Shinbun releases a series of Kurosawa films, including almost all films that Kurosawa worked on as an assistant director or wrote for other directors.
December 15, 2018	Eric San Juan's book Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide was published. The book is a great introduction to Kurosawa's films.
November 2018	Peter Tasker's On Kurosawa: A Tribute to the Master Director is published. Modelled after the Japanese literary genre of zuihitsu, it's a fun collection of essays, short stories, poems, quotes and pictures.
October 8, 2018	A Japanese musical based on Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru opens in Japan.
Summer 2018	An exhibition of posters made for Akira Kurosawa’s films runs in Tokyo until September.
October 17, 2015	Many Beautiful Things, a film co-produced by Kurosawa Production Co, released.
March, 2015	Shinobu Hashimoto's book Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I is published in English
17 January, 2015	Samurai 7 musical opens in Japan
November, 2014	Peter Wild's book Akira Kurosawa is published
23 October, 2012	Applause publishes All the Emperor's Men
March, 2011	Akira Kurosawa Foundation dissolves
27 May, 2009	Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive opens, making over 20,000 images available: scans of screenplays, photos, storyboards, drawings, notes, newspaper clippings, personal scribblings and much more!

Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club

The Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club opened in May 2008 and has discussed almost a hundred films since.

Each month our community of Kurosawa fans looks at a new film. Anyone is welcome to share their thoughts and questions in a friendly, easygoing and intellectually stimulating atmosphere.

This month, we are discussing Taking a break.

For more information, see the film club page.

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Gendai no nō (Modern Noh)

As part of a project to celebrate his centenary, Kurosawa's unfinished 1983 documentary on Noh theatre was to be completed and released sometime in 2010. Current status unknown.

High and Low remake

Since at least the early 1990s, Martin Scorsese has reportedly been working to get Kurosawa's High and Low remade in Hollywood. The last we heard was in 2010, when Mike Nichols was set to direct and comedian Chris Rock was working on the script.

Ikiru remake

English producer Stephen Wolley is reportedly developing a remake of Ikiru that could start shooting in 2019.

The Mask of the Black Death

A Chinese studio is working on Kurosawa's until now unfilmed Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Mask of the Black Death.

Rashomon TV adaptations

Two upcoming TV series based on Rashomon were announced in late 2018: NBC's Prism and the still untitled series developed for HBO Max by Amblin Television.

Seven Samurai Hollywood remake

The Weinstein Company and Kurosawa Production are working on a contemporary remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Here's the latest, from 2011.

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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can't people be happier together? - Akira Kurosawa -

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