The Criterion Collection
The legendary director joins the star of his new film Hard Truths in the Criterion Closet, where they share their love for Akira Kurosawa and Charles Burnett, reminisce about early moviegoing experiences, and select favorites for each other.
The legendary actor shares his love for the Akira Kurosawa classics Red Beard and Ikiru, recalls how Tatsuya Nakadai was his teacher when he first began acting, admires the visual storytelling of City Lights, and shouts out his latest collaborator,...
The celebrated filmmaker talks about Nastassja Kinski’s Korean fanbase, his favorite of Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptations, and the DVD that Park Chan-wook swiped from him.
The legendary animator, who has worked on such Disney classics as Sleeping Beauty and Mary Poppins, talks about taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, and Zoltán Korda’s Jungle Book.
We were excited to welcome author and TCM host Alicia Malone into the closet, where she offered up quick takes on Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, and David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
Essays
May 24, 2004 — By piling on naturalistic details to keep the heat constantly in our minds, Akira Kurosawa creates a visual and behavioral excess that highlights the fixation of his hero on retrieving his stolen gun.
Audie Bock is the author of Japanese Film Directors and Mikio Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema, as well as the translator of Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, Something Like an Autobiography. She has taught Japanese cinema at colleges and universities...
Donald Richie has written widely on Japanese film and is the author of the seminal book The Films of Akira Kurosawa (University of California, 1965; revised 1998).
Short Takes
Mar 23, 2017 — With a monumental body of work spanning nearly six decades, thirty feature films, and a staggering array of styles and genres, Akira Kurosawa has been a cornerstone of our collection since we released Seven Samurai as our second Criterion edition...