3 Disc ‘Seven Samurai’ on its way
On September the 5th this year Criterion will release a new edition of Seven Samurai, and this one looks like it will finally be the definite one. Certainly better than Criterion’s previous releases,...
View ArticleDonald Richie Tours the US East Coast
The Japanese film expert Donald Richie will be making some appearances on the US East Coast in October. The Kurosawa-related events are: Thursday, 19th of October: Richie introduces a special screening...
View ArticleDonal Richie’s films screened in Tokyo
If you happen to live in Tokyo, the SuperDeluxe in Nishi-Azabu (Minato-ku) is going to be screening Donald Richie’s short works under the title Japanese Cinema Eclectics: Donald Richie — A Film...
View ArticleTokyo event with Nogami and Richie
Those of you in Tokyo at the end of the month may not want to miss an event that the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan is organizing on the 31st of March. The two-hour talk is on Teryo Nogami’s...
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Book news updates
A couple of book related news updates. First of all, Dolores Martinez’s Remaking Kurosawa has now been out for a month or so in the US, but I have yet to see a single review. Has anyone here had the...
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Donald Richie dies at age 88
It is with sadness that I must report that Donald Richie, the author of The Films of Akira Kurosawa and so much more on Japanese film and culture, has passed away in Tokyo at the age of 88. The news...
View Article50 Years Ago Today: Donald Richie’s The Films of Akira Kurosawa first published
It is exactly 50 years since, on February 1, 1965, writer and film critic Donald Richie‘s seminal book The Films of Akira Kurosawa was published. It was the first book written in the English language...
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