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Kurosawa in 4K, a two-week series of classics by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), gloriously restored ...

Akira Kurosawa was a seismic force, the kind of artist who makes other artists question their craft. Spielberg, Scorsese, ...

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What can world cinema — watching movies made outside of Hollywood — teach us about film as an art form and about life?

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Filipino Japanophiles share their Tokyo top threes—from kamatoro that melts like oceanic butter to Yoko Ono’s art that cuts ...