The Kurosawa Run, Part I

A review of ten of his films

Akira Kurosawa is one of the first directors that made me fall in love with film. I remember picking up a used copy of Seven Samurai at Penny Lane, a long-gone chain of record stores in Pasadena. It was in high school and I can’t remember who recommended it to me, if anybody, or if I just heard about it on the forums or even a letter column.¹ All I know …