Akira Kurosawa

The Mind of Bengal

Rachel Dwyer

It is easy to see why Ray’s films were classed as arthouse in the West. In Calcutta, they were screened in cinemas which showed regular Bengali films, whose audiences in the 1950s and 1960s didn’t watch much Hindi cinema

When Ray Met Kurosawa

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Satyajit Ray’s account of his meeting with Kurosawa.

One Hundred Years of Akira Kurosawa

Saibal Chatterjee

Shakespeare, Tolstoy or American crime fiction, Akira Kurosawa fashioned them into his own unique brand of cinema. On his centenary, Open remembers the man whose films launched a thousand remakes.