Credits: Directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki. Rating/Runtime: Not rated. 143 minutes. Streaming on various services.

In Long Take, Akira Kurosawa shares 100 of his favorite films. Here are the first 20 — compiled by Kazuko Kurosawa and ...

Before watching Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's remake of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low this week, fans need to revisit Lee's iconic feature debut, which was also inspired by the legendary Japanese ...

It might surprise some movie fans, but Spike Lee’s latest film, Highest 2 Lowest, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, and an old 1962 TV episode all come from the same source material. The crime novel King ...

In the new Spike Lee film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Denzel Washington stars as music mogul David King. He lives at the top of the world — which, of course, is a New York City zip code — in a glittering ...

You expect a measure (or three) of idiosyncrasy from a Spike Lee movie; few major filmmakers follow their muse with such ornery dedication. So if “Highest 2 Lowest” is Lee’s most ambitious and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Official image from ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ courtesy of A24. The first act of Akira Kurosawa’s “High ...

Upon receiving notice of an upcoming program at Film Forum, “Kurosawa in 4K,” I was happy to get the opportunity to see a group of movies by Akira Kurosawa (1910-88) on a big screen while ...

And while a modern day reimagining of Kurosawa's 1963 police procedural High and Low had some measure of potential, ...