The message of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru parallels the psychological themes that Mike Flanagan emphasizes in his works.

The 4K Blu-ray is available from the Criterion Collection and includes a bunch of extra goodies: two audio commentaries, a making-of documentary, “a two-hour conversation between director Akira ...

This 2001 masterpiece from Japanese horror legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa is perhaps the scariest movie on this list. Pulse follows several people in Japan whose dealings with computers, and time spent ...

Akira Kurosawa is the William Shakespeare of cinema. Whether implicitly or explicitly, every film, to one degree or another, is influenced by the legendary Japanese director's work. Kurosawa's ...

Today, the divide between mainstream horror and the indie renaissance has become a microcosm of the broader shifts in cinema. Mainstream horror, with its reliance on jump scares and spectacle ...

As veteran director Kiyoshi Kurosawa observed when he spoke at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan last year, the problem with today’s digital imaging technology is that it’s too darn clean.