Helmed by the iconic Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru (1952) is a Japanese drama film that follows a terminally sick Tokyo bureaucrat, as he strives to find purpose in the final days of his life. Leo Tolstoy’s ...

Foreign cinema is one of the best ways of understanding and appreciating any culture. If you want to love France more, watch “Amelie” or the 1946 version of “Beauty and the Beast.” If you feel like ...

It’s probably not fair, this season especially, to recoil at the remaking of a classic. “A Christmas Carol,” for one, has been told and retold countless times, and who among us won’t jump at the ...

Ikiru, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic film, has been remastered and is currently being shown throughout North America. Released only seven years after the end of the Second World War ...

DreamWorks and Stone Village Prods. will remake “Ikiru,” the 1952 Akira Kurosawa-directed drama about a dying man’s efforts to make a difference before he goes. DreamWorks’ Walter Parkes will produce ...

Remakes don’t have to suffer from a dearth of ideas. Sometimes, material is strong enough to be fortified by new players, a different setting and judicious alterations. Theater has always thrived on ...

"Small wonder I didn't notice what I was becoming..." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed an official teaser trailer for the film Living, which is actually an English-language remake of the beloved ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The task at hand has never seemed so simple as it is in Living, an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952). Screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro sets his version in 1950s London, and director ...

It's probably not fair to recoil at the remaking of a classic. Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film “Ikiru” concerns the late-in-life redemption of an old man whose awakening comes amid softly falling snow.