Jakub Flasz 5/30/20 Jakub Flasz 5/30/20

RASHOMON: A Tragic Victim Of Its Own Genius

In the concluding essay in CLAPPER’s Akira Kurosawa Retrospective series, Jakub Flasz looks at the genius behind Rashomon

Sumer Singh 5/29/20 Sumer Singh 5/29/20

DODES'KA-DEN: The History and Allegories that led to the Creation of Akira Kurosawa's most pessimistic film

Sumer Singh takes a look at the bleak history that led to Akira Kurosawa's most pessimistic and personal feature Dodes'ka-den

Owen Hiscock 5/22/20 Owen Hiscock 5/22/20

RAN: The Shades of Good and Evil Found in Akira Kurosawa's Masterpiece

Owen Hiscock examines and explores the shades of good and evil found in works of Akira Kurosawa's Ran and William Shakespeare’s King Lear

Sumer Singh 5/8/20 Sumer Singh 5/8/20

DREAMS: An Exploration of Human Consciousness

Sumer Singh explores the theme of human consciousness in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Carson Timar 5/7/20 Carson Timar 5/7/20

THE MEN WHO TREAD ON TIGER’S TAIL: Akira Kurosawa's Turning Point in Experimenting with Genre

Carson Timar takes a look at Akira Kurosawa’s experimentation of genre and its failures present in The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Jakub Flasz 5/2/20 Jakub Flasz 5/2/20

RED BEARD: An Opportunity for Akira Kurosawa to Teach Cinema

Jakub Flasz takes a look at Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard as the directors outlet to teach cinema

Jakub Flasz 4/30/20 Jakub Flasz 4/30/20

SCANDAL: Akira Kurosawa's Critique of Sensationalist Press Within the Age of Fake New

Jakub Flasz takes a look at the critique of the sensationalist press in Scandal and its comparisons to present-day exploitation of fake news.

Alexander Holmes 4/29/20 Alexander Holmes 4/29/20

KAGEMUSHA: Akira Kurosawa's re-evaluation of the Samurai genre and its influence on Star Wars

Alexander Holmes takes a look at the deconstruction and revaluation of lore and tropes in Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha and its influence on Star Wars

Carson Timar 4/24/20 Carson Timar 4/24/20

I LIVE IN FEAR: The Universally Shared Fear and Tension of Atomic Destruction

Carson Timar explores the fear and tension of inevitable war and destruction in the Akira Kurosawa directed and Toshiro Mifune starring I live In Fear

Jakub Flasz 4/23/20 Jakub Flasz 4/23/20

DERSU UZALA: Akira Kurosawa's Allegorical Autobiography

Jakub Flasz looks at Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala and its sentiments that act as the directors’ allegorical autobiography

Alexander Holmes 4/22/20 Alexander Holmes 4/22/20

THE BAD SLEEP WELL: The cinematic impact and influence on the Movie Brat Pack of the 1970s

Alexander Holmes takes a look at the cinematic impact and influence of Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well on 1970s auteurs George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola

Jakub Flasz 3/23/20 Jakub Flasz 3/23/20

AKIRA KUROSAWA: A Celebration of a Filmmaking Icon

To celebrate Akira Kurosawa’s tremendous legacy CLAPPER will run a curated retrospective of his works with an aim to underscore the enduring relevance of his immense filmmaking output