Cast: Akira Kurosawa

Direction Adam Low

Cast Akira Kurosawa · James Coburn · Clint Eastwood · Shinobu Hashimoto

Direction Chris Marker

Cast Akira Kurosawa · Chris Marker · Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Mike Leigh · Jonas Mekas · David Lynch · Michael Moore

Synopsis Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that...

Direction Yoshinari Okamoto

Cast Akira Kurosawa · Hisashi Inoue · Masayuki Yui · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis Documentary series about the filmography of Akira Kurosawa.

Direction Mike Hoolboom

Cast Margaret Thatcher · Guy Fawkes · George Michael · James Baldwin

Synopsis Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out in Hito Steyerl’s essay gem “Freedom from Everything” which is...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Akira Kurosawa · Nagisa Ôshima

Synopsis Akira Kurosawa looks back to his life and his career, talking about his films.

Direction Hisao Kurosawa

Cast Akira Kurosawa · Kazuko Kurosawa

Synopsis The Documentary features Akira Kurosawas daughter and also his own opinions on how to make movies. It goes through his movie making process in ten chapters, including subjects like scriptwriting, cinematography, production design, storyboard, editing, costume design, music and directing.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Akira Kurosawa · Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Synopsis On set making-of documentary about Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.