When we first meet Kingo Gondo, a Japanese businessman played by Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film “High and Low,” he’s just completed the deal of his life, finally securing enough stock to ...

Denzel Washington plays a music mogul who faces a series of big moral choices in a film whose sensational third act more than justifies what might have seemed an unnecessary update. There’s enormous ...

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 ...

When it comes to the greatest artists in the history of cinema, Akira Kurosawa will always be right at the top of the list. The Japanese auteur made movies for decades that had a huge impact on the ...

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.

This is FRESH AIR. In Spike Lee's new crime drama, "Highest 2 Lowest," Denzel Washington plays a New York City music mogul whose teenage son becomes the target of a kidnapping plot. The movie is a ...

With the Cannes Film Festival underway until May 24, here are 17 films our editors and writers are keenly anticipating. As always, look throughout the festival for reviews from Vadim Rizov and Blake ...