Star of Japan’s cinematic golden age, who collaborated with Kurosawa and played the lead in Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died from pneumonia
The Japanese stage and screen actor Tatsuya Nakadai…
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Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest rages against the new but leaves him looking too old ○
The film-maker’s ‘reinterpretation’ of the Kurosawa crime drama rails against AI, online media and new hip-hop but can’t find much new to say
“We’re jazz musicians,” the director Spike Lee recently sa…
7 months ago
King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington ○
The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems
I have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. …
9 months ago
Highest 2 Lowest review – Spike Lee and Denzel Washington remake Kurosawa in fine style ○
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Akira Kurosawa’s downbeat noir High and Low is retooled with Washington on magnificent form as a record producer whose godson is kidnapped by mistake
Spike Lee has made a brash, bo…
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