Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker who famously bypassed the traditional halls of film school, choosing instead to learn his craft within the walls of a video rental store. By immersing himself in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Seeing cinematic inspiration in video games is nothing new. In 1988, Snatcher saw a young Hideo Kojima doing the best Blade Runner impression that the MSX2 platform would allow; even Spielberg himself ...

Hamza is a gaming enthusiast and a Writing Specialist from Pakistan. A firm believer in Keyboard/Mouse supremacy, he will play Tekken with WASD if you let him. He has been writing about games since ...

Credits: Directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki. Rating/Runtime: Not rated. 143 minutes. Streaming on various services.

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 ...

You can be high, or you can be low, but there is no in-between in this film noir classic. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I ...

Spike Lee reflects with Denzel Washington on his chance meeting with Akira Kurosawa, the legendary director of the original ‘High and Low’ film. FBI raids former national security adviser John ...