The Last Princess, plus more remakes in the horizon
Nikkei News has an article on The Last Princess, which as most readers should by now know is a remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to be released in Japan on May 10. The article quotes the film’s...
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The Last Princess: US premiere, The Three website
Before its official May 10 opening in Japan, The Last Princess (the new remake of The Hidden Fortress) will have its US premiere in Los Angeles. The screening will take place on Sunday, the 27th of...
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USC screening of The Last Princess
Japan Zone and Tokyo Graph have short articles on the recent University of Southern California screening of The Last Princess, a remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress that opens in Japan on May 10....
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Mark Schilling reviews ‘The Last Princess’
The Japan Times’s Mark Schilling, who has written extensively on modern Japanese film, gave us the first verdict of last year’s remake of Sanjuro, and he is at it again with his review of Shinji...
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Daily Yomimuri review of ‘The Last Princess’
Daily Yomimuri Online has a review of the new Hidden Fortress remake The Last Princess. Unlike the Mark Schilling review that I linked to earlier today, the Daily Yomimuri piece, written by Ikuko...
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Review: The Last Princess
If you have been a reader for some time, you may remember last year’s Japanese remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, which got some fairly mixed reviews: Daily Yomimuri called it excellent...
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Film Club: The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Hidden Fortress is our film club title for March, and throughout the month we will be discussing this 1958 work by Kurosawa, known as 隠し砦の三悪人 (literally “Three bad men of a hidden fortress”) in its...
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Film Club: Star Wars Episode IV (Lucas, 1977)
Chii, da-da-daa, da-da dah-dah-dah dah-dah-dah…. Oh, sorry, I didn’t see you there! I was just humming the opening theme from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the film that we will be discussing this...
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Criterion to release The Hidden Fortress bluray in March
With just one week until the release of Criterion’s new Throne of Blood bluray, it’s time for another Criterion related bluray announcement. As listed in their December newsletter, Criterion will be...
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BFI to release Akira Kurosawa Samurai Collection as a Blu-ray box set
The British Film Institute is currently preparing Akira Kurosawa Samurai Collection, a four-disc Blu-ray box set containing five of Kurosawa’s samurai films which will be released on 25 August 2014....
View ArticleLatest news roundup: Books, films, Naruse and Nakadai
Once again, it is time to look at some recent Akira Kurosawa related news which are interesting, but not interesting enough to warrant their own posts. Let’s start with some book news. I will be...
View ArticleLinks roundup: Videos, articles and jokes
It’s been almost a month since our last Akira Kurosawa related news link roundup, so we are very much overdue an update. So, without further ado, here are some videos, articles, jokes and images....
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Star Wars: Rogue One borrows from Akira Kurosawa
As you probably know, George Lucas was strongly influenced by Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress when he began working on his incredibly popular Star Wars saga. Although Lucas has by now sold the...
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Trailer for a Star Wars + The Hidden Fortress remix
The Sukaiwaka Fortress is a fan remix project that re-edits Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress with script changes, starwarsian dialogue and the music from Star Wars. In its own way, it completes the...
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Video: Kurosawa Akira – It Is Wonderful to Chronohop
Did you know that Akira Kurosawa owned a time machine and that his period pictures were actually shot on location in ancient Japan? All is revealed in “Kurosawa Akira: It Is Wonderful to Chronohop”, a...
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Video: The Force of Kurosawa in Star Wars
It is no secret that George Lucas’s Star Wars films borrow heavily from Japanese samurai films, and Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress in particular. Although Lucas himself is no longer helming the series,...
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Film Club: The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa, 1958)
This October we continue our journey through Akira Kurosawa's samurai works with the 1958 film The Hidden Fortress.
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