After more than half a century in cinema, Japan's most famous film-maker committed his own dreams - which roughly spanned his then 80 years - to celluloid. He attracted the support of an array of ...

In 1971, the frustrated Akira Kurosawa made an unsuccessful attempt to cut his veins. His life was restored by the opportunity offered by Mosfilm: to make the first Soviet-Japanese collaborative ...

Master Director, Akira Kurosawa, etched his mark deeply in his home country of Japan during the late 1940s. Worldwide fame ...