Benjamin Pearson

Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1950 – 1952

Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1950 – 1952

Today’s Kurosawa 101 explores two of the greatest films in Kurosawa’s catalog, Rashomon — the film that made Kurosawa and Japanese cinema known throughout the world — and Ikiru — perhaps the greatest film ever made about impending death.

Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1946 – 1948

Akira Kurosawa Films 101: 1946 – 1948

Day Two of Akira Kurosawa 101 examines three of his films that address the nature of life in Japan immediately at the end of WWII and the American Occupation.