Mifune passed away in 1997 at the age of 77, so it was incredibly unlikely that he would have even been alive today to give permission to provide his consent. But Capcom has cast a famous Japanese ...

Also demonstrating the strength of indie animation is the lauded “Memoir of a Snail” from Adam Elliot (2004 animated short ...

There are, unsurprisingly, seven interesting and unique samurai who fight together in Seven Samurai, but which of the bunch is the best overall?

Kurosawa’s 1949 thriller probes post-war morality in a Tokyo whose ruins and US occupation mostly remain just out of shot, in ...

For some reason, Focus Features is developoing a reamke of Takashi Miike’s disturbing 1997 cult horror thriller Audition. That movie is seriously still stuck in my head from the first time that I saw ...

Akira Kurosawa is the William Shakespeare of cinema. Whether implicitly or explicitly, every film, to one degree or another, is influenced by the legendary Japanese director's work. Kurosawa's ...

Up there in the pantheon of fashion greats, artist Takashi Murakami’s painterly collaborations with Louis Vuitton – debuted for spring/summer 2003, when Marc Jacobs was at the helm, and officially ...

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GKIDS announced on Friday that it has acquired theatrical distribution rights to Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, a re-edited version of some episodes of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam ...

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-is playing first in theaters on Friday. The anime is screening on 426 theaters, including 52 IMAX theaters. The story begins with Amate Yuzuriha, a high ...

Sideshow and Janus Films have picked up all North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest flick Cloud. Cloud debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival before playing Tokyo and Beyond Fest.