A Japanese legend... Living dolls in a peach orchard... A deadly snow fairy... A haunted war survivor... Van Gogh painting crows... A terrifying nuclear disaster... Miserly ogres... And the village of the watermills... Eight visions of breathtaking beauty. Eight powerful moments revealing human nature. Read more
| Starring | Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada |
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| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Genres | World Cinema |
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Tom Cruise is to appear in a new version of classic Western movie The Magnificent Seven, according to a report. The Top Gun actor has signed up to appear as one of the gang of gunslingers in MGM's remake of John Sturges' 1960 film, reports Variety.com. The original movie centres around seven renegades who are recruited to protect a Mexican village from an invasion of bandits. The Magnificent Seven was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai and was followed by three sequels -... Read more
Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese will toast what would have been late moviemaker Akira Kurosawa's 99th birthday at a gala in his honour on Monday (23Mar09). The two directors have recorded emotional video messages which will be shown at the Cherry Blossom Gala in Los Angeles. The event will serve as the official launch of the Akira Kurosawa Film School at California's Anaheim University and various members of Kurosawa's family are expected to be at the tribute. The revered Japanese... Read more
Salamanca, Spain. The President of the US of A (William Hurt) is in town to sign a new international security accord. At his side: secret servicemen Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) and Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid), back on active duty after taking a bullet for the Prez the year before. Among the crowd gathered to witness this historic event we find tourist Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), a local cop (Eduardo Noriega), and a couple of suspiciously Middle Eastern-looking types (Said Taghmaoui, Ayelet... Read more
We caught up with director Shekhar Kapur to get the low-down on the sequel to his critically acclaimed 1998 film Elizabeth. After an almost 10 year gap, Kapur is reunited with Cate Blanchett, whose Oscar nominated performances in both pictures shine. Kapur gave us the inside track on the troubles of persuading Blanchett to reprise the role, Elizabeth's similarity to Princess Diana and why cinema is most definitely not dead. LOVEFiLM: Were you always going to go back to Elizabeth at a later... Read more
Action Movies: 'Lights… Camera… Action!' According to the Oxford English Dictionary filmmakers have been urging their performers to… you know… 'do something' at least since 1914. Not every director says it. Some delegate. Others prefer a simple 'Okay,' or 'Go', or 'When you're ready'. There's a story that the great B-movie director Sam Fuller liked to pull out a pistol and fire it into the air to kick-start the actors. Distracting, perhaps, but I guess it would clear up any worries about... Read more
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