Sentences with phrase «director akira»

Not only that, but the person who signed it was none other than world - famous director Akira Kurosawa («Seven Samurai,» «Throne of Blood»).

What began as an unfinished movie script by famed Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, eventually morphed into a video game from Team Ninja, after a tumultuous 13 - year development.

The three «Otomodachi» / «Friend» tracks were produced by former Silent Hill sound director Akira Yamaoka and Grasshopper Manufacture sound team member Tak Hiraoka.

Tateishi: Director Akira Kitamura wanted people to know this was a direct sequel to Mega Man 1.

Early in development, it was going to be based on an unfinished script by legendary film director Akira Kurosawa titled Oni.

[46] According to the series» former sound director Akira Yamaoka, atmosphere is an emphasized element of the series, if which had not been given importance, the series» production would have been impossible.

IGNPS2 was lucky enough to sit down with three of the leading staff on Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2 today, to talk about what they've done and what they're going to do - sound director Akira Yamaoka, CG and character artist Takayoshi Sato, and Team Silent producer Akihiro Imamura.

Dreams: The Criterion Collection Rated PG Rotten Tomatoes Score: 55 % While writer / director Akira Kurosawa is best known for his samurai films like The Seven Samurai and Rashoman, he also created many more quiet and introspective films such as 1990's Dreams.

«Rashomon»: Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1950 drama, which recounts a horrible crime from four different points of view, is one of the most important movies in cinema history.

While director Yasujiro Ozu was not known outside of Japan until much later than other important Japanese directors such as The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954) director Akira Kurosawa, he is now regarded as one of the world's foremost filmmakers.

After finishing High and Low (1963), director Akira Kurosawa recalls, «I started looking around for something else to do and quite by accident picked up [the novel] Red Beard by Shugoro Yamamoto.

Returning sound director Akira Yamaoka redeems some of the title's shortcomings.

Producer Akihiro Imamura, sound director Akira Yamaoka, and CG and character artist Takayoshi Sato answered questions from assembled journalists, confirming a November release date for the largest launch Konami Europe has ever attempted and casting serious doubt over the possibility of an Xbox version appearing this year.

Shubun / Scandal was the final film legendary director Akira Kurosawa made before catapulting to international fame with Rashomon (1950).

IGNPS2 was lucky enough to sit down with three of the leading staff on Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2 today, to talk about what they've done and what they're going to do - sound director Akira Yamaoka, CG and character artist Takayoshi Sato, and Team Silent producer Akihiro Imamura.

In 1954, legendary screenwriter and director Akira Kurosawa, debuted Seven Samurai.

Not exact matches

Your management team needs access to everything,» says Akira Hirai, managing director of business plan consulting service Cayenne Consulting.

Katsuhiro Otomo, director of the groundbreaking anime feature Akira (1988), returns with this visually striking fusion of the past and the future.

Director: Christopher Butler Cast: Joanna Ignaczewska, Louis Labovitch, Akira Koieyama, Jessica Jay Certificate: 15 Watch The Scopia Effect online in the UK: iTunes / Amazon Instant Video

After watching the short you sort of have to question why WB didn't try to keep him on - board as the director, as it's starting to look like a huge mistake to not have him make Akira.

A dazzling mix of folklore, myth, and the director's own nighttime visions, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams represents a late - career burst of creativity from one of the masters of Japanese cinema.

Modeled after Toshiro Mifune's towering performance in Akira Kurosawa's «High and Low» (the first of the film's many nods to Japan's most famous director), the villainous bureaucrat suggests relocating every single one of the dogs in Uni Prefecture to a place called Trash Island, starting with his own Short - Haired Oceanic Speckle - Eared Sport Hound, Spots.

Exclusive Interview with THIS COUNTRY»S SKY Director Haruhiko Arai and Producer Akira Morishige

The live - action version of classic manga and anime Akira is one of those white whales that Hollywood — primarily Warner Bros. — has been hunting for years, burning through writers, casting choices and potential directors but never quite made it into production.

While the director of Hunt For The Wilderpeople seems like an odd choice for Akira, eyebrows were raised when he took on the latest Thor movie, and that appears to be turning out just fine.

He has emphasised his debt to the Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa with this whole idea, and while the quest in the story, to find a missing guard dog called Spots, recalls some of that director's samurai films, the setting is very specifically indebted to Dodes» ka - den, his multi-strand 1970 drama about people subsisting atop a rubbish heap.

Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Akira Kurosawa Actors: Daisuke Ryu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao Plot: A lord who is dying, designiates his power to his three sons, two of try and turn against their father.

Language: Japanese Genre: Adventure / Action MPAA rating: NR Director: Akira Kurosawa Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba Plot: A village under attack recruits seven warriors to try and protect their village.

Akira Kurosawa's late - period masterpiece, a feudal spin on King Lear, is a peak of»80s foreign cinema, crafted by a director in youthful command of his epic prowess.

News: Man of Steel director Zack Snyder is working on a standalone Star Wars film that will be loosely based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

Despite this large team the project would not have been as impressive as it is today without the help of three masterminds: Akihiro Imamura (producer), Takayoshi Sato (CGI character designer) and Akira Yamaoka (sound director).

Kenichiro Imaizumi (MGS4 / PW / R / V producer) Ayako Terashima (Kojima's PA) Aiko Sakamoto (MGS: PW lead programmer) Daizoburo Nakamura (MGSV lead programmer) Yuta Hoshino (MGSV FX engineer) Nozomu Takeuchi (MGSV art / programmer) Hideki Sasaki (MGS series art director / character modeler) Yasuhiro Ikoma (MGS3 - V / ZOE2 / PT effects artist) Ludvig Forssell (MGSV / PT music composition) Jorge Ken Hashimoto (Kojima's translator) Takaaki Ishikawa (MGSV graphics engineer) Fumito Miyauchi (MGSV Fox Engineer / UI programmer) Hiroyuki Nakayama (MGSV sound designer) Akira Inamura (MGSV character artist) Kohei Ishiyama (MGSV effects programmer) Makoto Abe (MGSV UI programmer) Kazuya Adachi (MGSV Fox Engine tech director) Satoshi Matsuno (MGS3 - V level design / artist) Satoshi Matsuno (MGS3 - V programming) Takayuki Uchida (MGS4 - V environment design / artist) Hiroaki Arai (MGSV programmer / lead tech artist)

The film features the talents of Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Tilda Swinton, and Bob Balaban, all of whom have worked with the director before, as well as Bryan Cranston, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson, Liev Schreiber, Fisher Stevens, Courtney B. Vance, Frank Wood, Harvey Keitel, Yoko Ono, Akira Ito, Mari Natsuki, Yojiro Noda, Kunichi Nomura, Koyu Rankin, and Akira Takayama.

Now we know that the new version is very much alive, as WB is looking to Jaume Collet - Serra, the director of Orphan and the Liam Neeson action thriller Unknown, to direct Akira.

Great Directors on TCM: Akira Kurosawa Between his flawless translations of American genre films (especially crime films and westerns) to Japanese settings both contemporary and medieval, his groundbreaking experiments with cinematic point of view and narrative reliability, and his brilliant juxtapositions of Shakespeare with Japanese tradition, Akira Kurosawa can easily claim to be one of the greatest and most influential directors of Directors on TCM: Akira Kurosawa Between his flawless translations of American genre films (especially crime films and westerns) to Japanese settings both contemporary and medieval, his groundbreaking experiments with cinematic point of view and narrative reliability, and his brilliant juxtapositions of Shakespeare with Japanese tradition, Akira Kurosawa can easily claim to be one of the greatest and most influential directors of directors of all time.

In this unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and the first entry in Spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, Clint...

Language: Japanese Genre: Drama MPAA rating: NR Director: Akira Kurosawa Actors: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka Plot: A dedicated old man is an official in the Public Affair division.

Language: Japanese Genre: Drama / Crime MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Akira Kurosawa Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori Plot: A crime is told from four different points of view, through different people - but which version is the truth?

Release Date: March 23, 2018 (Limited) Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Director: Wes Anderson Screenwriter: Wes Anderson Starring: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Kunichi Nomura, Koyu Rankin, Liev Schreiber, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Akira Takayama, F. Murray Abraham, Akira Ito, Yoko Ono, Ken Watanabe, Courtney B. Vance MPAA Rating: PG - 13 (for thematic elements and violent images)

Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou's influential wuxia is period martial arts on the immense scale of an Akira Kurosawa epic.

February Xala (1975, Ousmane Sembène)-- 5.9 Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade) DP — 8.0 + Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)-- 5.7 [up from 4.8] +20 th Century Women (2016, Mike Mills) DP — 7.0 [up from 6.9] Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)-- 6.9 I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Raoul Peck) DP — 7.1 Lumumba (2000, Raoul Peck)-- 6.3 John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, Chad Stahelski) DP — 7.0 The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou)-- 5.4 + Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)-- 7.8 [up from 7.0] Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (2011, Lav Diaz)-- 5.3 Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang - soo)-- 7.4 + Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade) DP — 8.0 [same] The Lego Batman Movie (2017, Chris McKay) DP — 5.9 Chocolat (1988, Claire Denis)-- 6.2 To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou)-- 7.3 Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash) DP — 6.2 + Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)-- 7.4 [same] The Mission (1999, Johnnie To)-- 7.1 The Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)-- 9.0 The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)-- 6.8 The Mend (2014, John Magary)-- 6.8 The Son of Joseph (2016, Eugène Green) DP — 5.8 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent) 35 mm — 6.3 Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel) 35 mm — 6.5 Une femme coquette (1955, Jean - Luc Godard) Léolo (1992, Jean - Claude Lauzon)-- 3.0 Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer) 35 mm — 6.2 Backyard Theatre (1973, no director credited) As You Are (2016, Miles Joris - Peyrafitte)-- 4.6 + Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)-- 7.9 [down from 8.2] Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele) DP — 6.3 A Cure for Wellness (2016, Gore Verbinski) DP — 6.2 Akira (1988, Katsuhiro Otomo) DP — 6.8 + Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele) DP — 6.6 [up from 6.3] To Each His Own Cinema (2007, Zhang Yimou) Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993, Alanis Obomsawin)-- 4.9

Favorite Directors: Orson Welles, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa

Director: Akira Kurosawa.

Warner Bros. is currently rumored to be in the process of deciding between two directors for it live - action «Akira» film.

Although Taika Waititi hasn't boarded Warner Bros.» Akira just yet, the Thor: Ragnarok director says if he did, he would cast Asian actors.

Unearthed by Bloody Disgusting, the art was first posted a couple of years ago by director Ruairà Robinson, who had the reins of «Akira» before Warner Bros. hired the Hughes brothers.

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is in talks to helm Warner Bros.» film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.

Expanding on the stop - action animation he used in FANTASTIC MR. FOX, director Anderson also plays homage to Japanese filmmaking — especially the animation of Hayao Miyazaki and the cinematic legend Akira Kurosawa.

Apart from Akira Kurosawa, Nagisa Oshima is plainly the greatest living Japanese filmmaker, but given that he despises the work of virtually all other Japanese directors, he seems quite unsuited to recount the history of his country's cinema.

The five new films coming to the Criterion Collection in November include director approved releases of The Squid and the Whale and Punch - Drunk Love as well as fully restored releases of Lone Wolf and the Cub, Marlon Brando «s only directorial effort One - Eyed Jacks and Akira Kurosawa «s Dreams.