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, ...

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 ...

Live-Action 'Akira' Movie On the Comeback Trail
getthebigpicture.net 9/8/2009 — Were we smokescreened earlier this year when it was revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio 's live-action version of Akira was dead? Warner Bros. had tabled the project but now it looks like it's back on. Collider has learned that Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus ( Children of Men ) are ...

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

Producer Lazar: Live-Action Akira is 'Priority Project'
animenewsnetwork.com 7/29/2009 — "Not realistic to go before the third quarter of next year for a 2011 release"

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), ...

‘Children of Men’ Writers Scripting Live-Action ‘Akira’
filmschoolrejects.com 9/8/2009 — I feel like the world is ready to know my shame. After hiding for too long, it’s finally time to come clean to all of you film lovers and anime fans out there. I do not like Akira . There, I’ve said it. After seeing the movie three times and owning the limited edition tin ...

Live-Action 'Akira' Movie Presumably Dead
aceshowbiz.com 6/15/2009 — Words on the street are suggesting that the live-action adaptation of Leonardo DiCaprio-produced 'Akira' is 'dead as a doornail'.

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) ...

Blu-ray review: Kurosawa's 'Kagemusha'
dvdspindoctor.typepad.com 8/20/2009 — Criterion's Blu-ray of Akira Kurosawa's late-period masterpiece "Kagemusha" merits a table-pounding call for owners of the previous DVD to upgrade. It's that work of alchemy we've been waiting for since the classics label got into the HD game. Purists who hated Kurosawa's move from soulful ...