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Recent & Upcoming Events

December 15, 2018

Eric San Juan's book Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide was published. The book is a great introduction to Kurosawa's films.

November 2018

Peter Tasker's On Kurosawa: A Tribute to the Master Director is published. Modelled after the Japanese literary genre of zuihitsu, it's a fun collection of essays, short stories, poems, quotes and pictures.

October 8, 2018

A Japanese musical based on Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru opens in Japan.

Summer 2018

An exhibition of posters made for Akira Kurosawa’s films runs in Tokyo until September.

September 8, 2016

A remake of The Magnificent Seven, itself an adaptation of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, was released. It wasn't very good.

October 17, 2015

Many Beautiful Things, a film co-produced by Kurosawa Production Co, released.

March, 2015

Shinobu Hashimoto's book Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I is published in English

17 January, 2015

Samurai 7 musical opens in Japan

November, 2014

Peter Wild's book Akira Kurosawa is published

October 4, 2014

A short film produced by Kurosawa Production is screens at Raindance 2014

23 October, 2012

Applause publishes All the Emperor's Men

March, 2011

Akira Kurosawa Foundation dissolves

6 March, 2011

Kurosawa museum in Imari closes

27 May, 2009

Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive opens, making over 20,000 images available: scans of screenplays, photos, storyboards, drawings, notes, newspaper clippings, personal scribblings and much more!