Want to know a secret? Great films, even when they’re ‘classicsâ? , are supposed to be fun. And a great director like Akira Kurosawa might be able to lay the profundity on like peanut butter whenever ...

One reason movie lovers the world over hold the filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in such high regard is that he instilled visceral excitement into Japanese cinema as no one had before him. Whether he was more ...

Toshiro Mifune stars in director Akria Kurosawa's 'Sanjuro.' (Photo by The Times-Picayune archive) Akira Kurosawa's 1962 gem "Sanjuro" gets its turn in the spotlight this week as the New Orleans ...

One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature trained as a painter and apprenticed to director Kajiro Yamamoto (Chushingura). The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman ...

The masterless samurai Sanjuro, who slyly manipulates two warring clans to his own advantage in a small, dusty village, was so entertainingly embodied by the brilliant Toshiro Mifune that it was only ...

TOKYO — Producer Haruki Kadokawa (Yanato) will remake “Sanjuro,” the 1962 samurai swashbuckler helmed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. The remake will star Yuji Oda, who headlined the ...

It is quite possible that Toshiro Mifune was the greatest screen actor of the 20th century. Sure, there have been plenty of great actors, but when you look at the nearly 200 movies in Mifune's ...

A welcome release for three Akira Kurosawa classics from the BFI. In Ikiru, Takashi Shimura delivers a fine, understated performance as a dying bureaucrat. Sanjuro stars longtime Kurosawa collaborator ...

The masterless samurai Sanjuro, who slyly manipulates two warring clans to his own advantage in a small, dusty village, was so entertainingly embodied by the brilliant Toshiro Mifune that it was only ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

Sent into production quickly following the success of its superior sequel, Sanjuro continues the story of Toshiro Mifune's titular rōnin, who in the film finds himself called to arms against a town's ...