Akira Kurosawa a prolific and internationally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker whose career spanned over five decades and thirty films that influenced artists of diverse cultures and mediums, including ...

Taking a page from Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth, Izumi (actor as well as playwright) uses a speaker's lectern to begin the play a number of times. Ostensibly a presentation about the life ...

As Julia Izumi jokes early on in Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live and Active Cultures), there can be something a little awkward about a playwright appearing in their own ...