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 ...

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 ...

When fans think of the great Akira Kurosawa, they often think of the grand samurai and war epics that came to define his career early on. Movies like Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and The Hidden ...

Criterion is about to release glistening new transfers of two catalog staples, Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” (1961) and its sequel, “Sanjuro” (1962), suitably boxed together. Like the first two ...

Slab Cinema will screen Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo at Legacy Park on Tuesday. Credit: The Criterion Collection As the latest entry in Slab Cinema’s Arthouse Edition, which features microcinema ...

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 ...

Lecture/Screening class (3 hours) Lecture with BAMPFA senior curator, Susan Oxtoby. In one of his best-known roles, Toshiro Mifune plays the boisterous, bullying ...

Ranveer Singh has been spending most of his lockdown life hunkered down at home with wifey Deepika Padukone. Now, the 'Gully Boy' actor shared a super cute picture featuring him as Mifune from 1961 ...