There are plenty of reasons why numerous Akira Kurosawa films are classics, and potentially even timeless, given how fantastically his best movies are paced, filmed, written, and acted. Acting is….
At first, I thought maybe the audience didn’t like it. The world premiere of “Orang Ikan” at the Tokyo International Film Festival was scheduled to begin at 11:35 AM, not….
Kiyoshi Kurosawa on the set of Cloud. Courtesy of Nikkatsu. Satisfaction is good, certainly. On these three 2024 films you’ve used three different cinematographers. Cloud is Yasayuki Sasaki, who’s worked….
It’s October, which means Criterion’s already thinking about 2025. Their new year auspiciously starts with a 4K UHD release of Jean Eustache’s magnum opus The Mother and the Whore, featuring….
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has spent the fall festival season dazzling critics with “Cloud,” a thriller that follows the petty feuds of a sleazy online reseller to their bloody ends in a….
Veteran Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa says he took on his latest psychological thriller Cloud with an attempt to make an atypical action film where ordinary people are led to violence….
The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival, taking place from October 28 to November 6, has announced a lineup opening with Shiraishi Kazuya’s 11 Rebels and closing with Christophe Honoré’s Marcello….
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the year. Chime, a mid-length chiller, was a standout at the Berlinale. A French-language remake of his own Serpent’s Path will have its European premiere….
The last time the journeyman Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa was at the Venice Film Festival, he took home the event’s prestigious best director award for his period drama Wife of a….
An action film as only “Cure” and “Pulse” director Kiyoshi Kurosawa would think to make one, “Cloud” leverages the social disaffection at the heart of his analog horror masterpieces into….
