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25 days ago

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor of Ran, Yojimbo and Harakiri, dies aged 92

Star of Japan’s cinematic golden age, who collaborated with Kurosawa and played the lead in Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died from pneumonia

The Japanese stage and screen actor Tatsuya Nakadai…

3 months ago

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest rages against the new but leaves him looking too old

The film-maker’s ‘reinterpretation’ of the Kurosawa crime drama rails against AI, online media and new hip-hop but can’t find much new to say

“We’re jazz musicians,” the director Spike Lee recently sa…

6 months ago

Highest 2 Lowest review – Spike Lee and Denzel Washington remake Kurosawa in fine style

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Akira Kurosawa’s downbeat noir High and Low is retooled with Washington on magnificent form as a record producer whose godson is kidnapped by mistake

Spike Lee has made a brash, bo…

7 months ago

Cloud review – bizarre internet action thriller descends into hail of bullets

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s baffling crime farrago follows a cyber fraudster pursued by an angry gang of disappointed shoppers

Here to prove once again that movies about internet crime can so easily unravel in…

The original Star Wars is back – but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good?

After 48 years, the 1977 theatrical cut of the movie is set to screen again this summer. It will surely look rather different this time round

Cast your mind back, lightsaber-wielding relics of a certa…

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