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Only These 10 Directors Are Worthy of Being Called Cinematic Geniuses

Collider 01 Sep 2025
The word "genius" gets thrown around far too casually in film discourse ... ....
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Chloé Zhao, Lee Sang-il to Receive Tokyo Film Festival’s Kurosawa Akira Award

Variety 27 Aug 2025
... directors from opposite sides of the Pacific for its Kurosawa Akira Award.
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Chloé Zhao, Lee Sang-il Set for Tokyo Film Fest’s Kurosawa Akira Award

The Hollywood Reporter 27 Aug 2025
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Lee Sang-il, Chloé Zhao to receive Kurosawa Akira Award at Tokyo film festival 2025

Screen Daily 27 Aug 2025
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is set to honour filmmakers Lee Sang-il and Chloé Zhao with the Kurosawa Akira Award ... The Kurosawa Akira Award was revived by the festival in 2022 after an absence of 14 years.
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Legacy over Clout: Spike Lee’s Kurosawa Remix

National Review 24 Aug 2025
Highest 2 Lowest is a defense of family legacy, masculine authority, and cultural inheritance ....
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This Underseen Thriller From One of Japan’s Greatest Ever Directors Is a Contender for Crime ...

Collider 23 Aug 2025
For Kiyoshi Kurosawa, long celebrated as one of Japan’s great auteurs, Cloud feels timely and timeless ... ....
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Reel Rundown: While not quite faithful to novel, ‘High and Low’ continues to be one of Kurosawa’s greatests

The Spokesman-Review 21 Aug 2025
Spike Lee is hardly the first movie director to remake one of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s films. A quick look online shows that more than two dozen have been remade, some at least twice – Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece “Seven Samurai” among them.
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Music, morality, and mayhem power Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest (xxx)

Nashville Pride 21 Aug 2025
At least not in this film’s source material, the 1963 police procedural crime thriller High and Low by legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa ... A$AP Rocky Yung Felon roleAkira Kurosawa High and Low ...
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While Everybody's Talking About Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, Can I Please Talk About The Excellent Akira Kurosawa Movie That Inspired It?

Cinema Blend 20 Aug 2025
Before I see it, can I just rave about the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film that inspired it, High and Low? ... Toho)High And Low Is One Of The More Interesting Toshiro Mifune Performances In A Kurosawa Film.
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Spike Lee channels his inner Kurosawa in 'Highest 2 Lowest'

Independent Record 19 Aug 2025
I came away more disappointed than enchanted by “Highest 2 Lowest,” IR movie reviewer Brent Northup says. "I had set the bar very high." ... .
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With ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ Stars Perfect the Art of Friendship

New York Times 19 Aug 2025
Across 35 years and five films, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington redefined Black male filmmaking and cemented an indestructible personal bond ... .
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Spike Lee’s First Kurosawa-Inspired Film Is a Must-Watch Before 'Highest 2 Lowest'

Collider 16 Aug 2025
Before watching Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's remake of Akira Kurosawa's ...
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Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest drags down a Kurosawa classic

CBC 15 Aug 2025
In Highest 2 Lowest, a loose remake of the 1963 crime-thriller High and Low, the director shows off his knack for framing New York City in a lively, exciting way, and touches on similar themes as the original, but doesn't quite stick the landing ... .
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Highest 2 Lowest Is Spike Lee’s Fanboy Homage to Akira Kurosawa

Portland Mercury 15 Aug 2025
But King’s musical skills lead to sharp plot twists that don’t exist in the Kurosawa version ... What Highest 2 Lowest is not, is a Kurosawa film ... Kurosawa, like many film directors, came from a privileged background.
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You Should Absolutely Watch One of Akira Kurosawa’s Greatest Films Before the Denzel Washington and ...

Collider 15 Aug 2025
... Kurosawa's filmography, but few have come close to making a picture as influential.

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