Akira Kurosawa

National Film Archive of India director Prakash Magdum defends loss of Doordarshan footage, and other controversies

National Film Archive of India, Pune has recently been under the fire for the loss and damage of the footage of classics.

La Strada, Two English Girls, Three Colours: Red — Baradwaj Rangan's favourite foreign films

Here's Baradwaj Rangan's list of his favourite foreign films.

Akira Kurosawa's classic drama Rashomon to be turned into 10-part anthology TV series at Amblin

The 10-episode series based on Rashomon will narrate one singular crime from the perspective of different characters

Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to get Hollywood remake from Carol producer Stephen Woolley

Stephen Woolley announced the Ikiru remake in the foreword of a book which discusses Scala Cinema, the theater that he set up in 1979

On Kurosawa's 20th death anniversary, remembering Rashōmon and his only female-centric film

What’s fascinating, today, is that Kurosawa matches the melodrama in the story with visual melodrama.