©Courtesy of Toho Spike Lee, who is currently heading the jury at the Red Sea International Film Festival, took time out to talk to reporters about his upcoming film, Highest to Lowest, which he described as a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller High and Low. Kurosawa’s film was about a Yokohama shoe-company executive…
©Courtesy of Toho Studios “THE FINEST JAPANESE FILM EVER MADE.” — Donald Richie TOSHIRŌ MIFUNE STARS IN AKIRA KUROSAWA’S SEVEN SAMURAI U.S. PREMIERE OF 70th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION RESTORED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN 4K JULY 5 – 18 AT FILM FORUM ©Courtesy of Toho Studios A new 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s epic masterpiece, SEVEN SAMURAI…
© Photo credit: Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved. Jeffrey Wright, who received a spate of awards for his starring role in American Fiction, will be joining Denzel Washington and Ilfenesh Hadera in Spike Lee’s upcoming film High and Low. It’s unclear what role Wright will be playing in the movie, which…
©Toho Co. A Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece High and Low will be remade by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington. Apple Original Films and A24 will tackle the American version of High and Low, based on one of the most acclaimed films of all time. The original Japanese film is loosely based on the novel…
When Chiaki Yanagimoto first discovered films as a kid, she was smitten with the movie making bug. As she explained, “I’m originally from Japan, and I grew up in a very small town where there weren’t many places for entertainment. My mother used to rent movies in VHS regularly from the only video rental store…
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus takes a spin on the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa. The original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro — inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 Russian novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich — finds a modern adaptation with the British drama Living. The film is set in London in the…
Synopsis : LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Some Suggestive Material) Genre: Drama Original Language: English Director: Oliver Hermanus Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen Writer: Kazuo…
Synopsis : LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Some Suggestive Material) Genre: Drama Original Language: English Director: Oliver Hermanus Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen Writer: Kazuo…
Synopsis : LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Some Suggestive Material) Genre: Drama Original Language: English Director: Oliver Hermanus Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen Writer: Kazuo…
Japan Society has recently announced its autumn line-up for Monthly Classics, that includes a 35mm screening of the film written and directed by Kihachi Okamoto: Kill!. This is a satirical chambara — a sub-category of the Japanese period drama known as jidaigeki — that is characterised by duels just like Western and swashbuckler films. The…
Society functions to a degree because most people don’t know when their lives will end. Having a sense of how much time someone has left in the world can affect their behavior entirely and inspire them to make decisions that are not at all in line with how they typically operate. It can also lead…
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