Akira Kurosawa
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The Japanese film-maker’s adaptation of King Lear is still visually and dramatically breathtaking
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Staggering battle sequences, thrones of blood and the spirit of Macbeth are abroad in one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare
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Newly restored three decades after its initial release, the Japanese director’s feudal warlord story remains bleak, brutal and breathtaking
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Watch the trailer for a 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s take on King Lear, set amid the civil war of 16th-century Japan
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The singer-songwriter on the French band Téléphone, Salman Rushdie’s latest novel and Kurosawa’s stunning Throne of Blood
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Muse of Yasujuro Ozu who rose to fame in the 1930s and 40s was a key face of Japan’s postwar cinematic revival
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One of Japan’s most popular actors of the postwar years, admired for her performances in the films of Yasujiro Ozu, including Tokyo Story
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Film-makers around the world have re-imagined the Bard’s plays with staggering results. Here are five of the best
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Focusing mainly on the films, Wild’s study is a succinct portrayal of the intensely private director Scorsese calls ‘my master’, writes PD Smith
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Ben Child: Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua will direct Washington as a gun-slinging guardian angel in remake of John Sturges’s 1960 western
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Philip French: Kurosawa's tale of a 16th-century village under attack is one of the 20th-century's finest works of art
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The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave has pushed back the boundaries of film because of the fearlessness that comes with a background in art
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Everybody is kung-fu fighting for sure, but it takes more than that to make a great martial arts movie. The Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 finest ever made
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War is hell, for sure, but war can make for undeniably brilliant movie-making. Here, the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the ten best
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Murder, robbery, revenge... some of the greatest films revolve around the vilest human acts. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the best crime films ever made
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One of Britain's best young film directors talks to Corinne Jones about the music, books and art currently catching his eye
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Gove referenced the 1950s Japanese classic when coming to ex-chief whip Andrew Mitchell's defence. Can the film's plot be applied elsewhere in politics?
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Xan Brooks: The controversial Left Bank Cinema director scored an arthouse hit with Sans Soleil and made the brilliant, haunting, highly influential La Jetée
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The writer and director died last month aged 100. As a BFI retrospective celebrates his career, Emilie Bickerton salutes a life's work made in the shadow of Hiroshima
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Kurosawa's tale of friendship between a European adventurer and an Asian nomad is a humanist masterpiece, writes Philip French
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Laurence Topham continues our writers' favourite film series with Kurosawa's epic about 16th-century Japanese swords-for-hire
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Philip French enjoys a fascinating five-film box set from the Japanese master
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John Patterson: Akira Kurosawa remakes such as The Magnificent Seven led a Hollywood revolution in the 1960s – and now a new wave of US adaptations could be coming
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Weinstein Company planning new version of Kurosawa classic directed by Scott Mann and set in northern Thailand
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Philip French finds fascinating material in an important box-set covering the Japanese master's early years
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Ben Walters: Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese director, was born 100 years ago today. He's already the subject of a Google doodle, now here's a guide to ten key Kurosawa movies, from classics such as Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood to late greats Ran and Dreams
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