Kurosawa was on a commercial filmmaking spree when he adapted Ed McBain’s “King’s Ransom” in 1963. Two years earlier, he’d turned Dashiell Hammet’s rogue detective thriller “Red Harvest” into a samurai movie…
Kurosawa was on a commercial filmmaking spree when he adapted Ed McBain’s “King’s Ransom” in 1963. Two years earlier, he’d turned Dashiell Hammet’s rogue detective thriller “Red Harvest” into a samurai movie…