8.9K reactions · 1.3K shares | 73 years ago, Akira Kurosawa’s «Ikiru» (1952) was released in Japan. | History of Cinema | Facebook

6.1K views · 109 reactions | The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. | History of Cinema | Facebook

Remembering the great Japanese filmmaker, Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑), on his 110th birthday! Enjō (1958), directed by Kon Ichikawa. Ichikawa’s precise and restrained adaptation of Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. In this film the director transforms the novel’s inner fire into a clear visual geometry where every gesture and silence becomes part of the protagonist’s painful awakening. | History of Cinema