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Weinsteins to preserve Madadayo
The Weinstein Company has announced three new DVD labels with one of them, the Miriam Collection, being devoted to “restorations, prestige and foreign pics”. The first title to be released is the 1961...
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KINO’s Dersu Uzala released as part of a box set
What is perhaps the best of a sorry lot, Kino International’s Dersu Uzala DVD (Region 1) will be re-released on December 9 as part of a “Great Directors” box set. Amazon.com takes pre-orders. I have...
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Dersu Uzala book looking for a publisher
One of the many great things about running Akira Kurosawa NID is that I am time to time contacted by interesting people with connections to Kurosawa. Yesterday, I received a note which was allegedly...
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Akira Kurosawa Film Club #11: Dersu Uzala
The month has changed again it seems, and so the focus of the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club shifts to the next film on the list. Marked for March is Kurosawa’s 1975 venture to Siberia, the much...
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Vladimir Vasilyev’s book on Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala now available
Some of you may remember a news post I wrote a while back about Vladimir Vasilyev, assistant director for Kurosawa during the production of Dersu Uzala, looking for a publisher for his new book on the...
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Film Club: Dersu Uzala (1975)
Our film club title for the month of July is Akira Kurosawa’s 1975 Dersu Uzala, the only film that Kurosawa filmed outside of Japan. Following the disappointing commercial reception of the 1970...
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It’s been quite a while since I last did a news roundup with links to interesting and relevant content which for one reason or another isn’t interesting or relevant enough to warrant posts of their...
View ArticleNews and links: Kurosawa video game resurfaces, a new Japanese book, lots of...
Oh boy, this week’s Akira Kurosawa related news and links roundup is quite full on. Get ready for video game news, Michael Fassbender, Dersu Uzala celebrations, lots of articles and pictures, and not a...
View ArticleHappy 80th birthday, Yury Solomin!
It was exactly 80 years ago today that the Russian actor Yury Solomin was born, on 18 June 1935. Best known internationally for his role as Captain Arseniev in Akira Kurosawa‘s Dersu Uzala, Solomin has...
View Article40 years ago today: Dersu Uzala wins at the Moscow International Film Festival
The 9th Moscow International Film Festival concluded on the 23rd of July, 1975, with Akira Kurosawa‘s Soviet produced Dersu Uzala taking home the coveted Golden Prize, an honour it shared with the...
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