Work of Akira Kurosawa
mattehavoc.blogspot.com 8/18/2009 — This multitudinous review is part of the Akira Kurosawa installment of the LAMBs in the Director's Chair feature sponsored by the Large Association of Movie Blogs . Nora inu / Stray Dog (1949). For several years after the end of World War II, ...

Contemporary Kurosawa: The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low
movieprojector.blogspot.com 8/18/2009 — NOTE: I am reprinting this post from September 2008 as part of the LAMBs in the Director's Chair event on Akira Kurosawa. To read more on Kurosawa and for a link to the LAMB website click here . The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) ...

Massive Kurosawa set due from Criterion
feedproxy.google.com 9/18/2009 — Criterion will cheer fans of Japanese cinema with its December release of "AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa."  The $400 set includes a swarm of previously released Criterion Kurosawa releases, bolstered by four new-to-region 1 titles, all made during WWII: "The Most Beautiful" (1944), ...

Akira Kurosawa: Film Artist | Academy Events Calendar | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
oscars.org 9/23/2008 — Only a handful of directors have achieved the kind of international stature and creative respect enjoyed by Akira Kurosawa. And although millions of moviegoers have seen the films that stand as a lasting testament to his talent, few outside his native ...

Exclusive AKIRA Movie Update
collider.com 9/8/2009 — Early last year, Variety reported Warner Bros. was hard at work trying to adapt the ridiculously popular anime “Akira” into two live-action feature films. Rumors were everywhere that Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt were ...

Exclusive: A look at the live action AKIRA remake - AKIRA PART 1!
latinoreview.com 11/8/2008 — Based on the popular anime and graphic novel

Live Action Akira Movie Comes Back from the Dead
filmjunk.com 9/9/2009 — We heard reports a couple of months ago that the live action adaptation of the seminal anime flick Akira had lost its director and essentially been shelved, which was no doubt seen by some as a fortunate turn of events. If you were hoping this ...

Iron Man Screenwriters Working On Akira
filmshaft.com 9/8/2009 — The Akira project isn’t dead after all. Back in June of this year fanboys around the world were grieving the loss of Warner Bros. live action Akira adaptation, based on the hugely popular Manga series. 15th June 2009 was the day it was confirmed that director Ruairi Robinson had ...

Children of Men Screenwriters Are Developing Live-Action Akira Movie
slashfilm.com 9/8/2009 — Warner Bros’ live-action adaptation of Akira is not dead afterall. Collider has confirmed that Children of Men and Iron Man screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are hard at work on the project. The screenplay is set in a ...

Childen of Men Writers Adapting Akira
atomicpopcorn.net 9/8/2009 — I know nothing of the animated Akira , other than it involves a post-apocalyptic setting, a huge gun, and a pretty freakin’ sweet motorcycle. Which is also just about all I need to know in order to be excited about anything. It helps even more in the process of getting excited for ...