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Waiting on the weather : making movies with Akira Kurosawa / Teruyo Nogami ; foreword by Donald Richie ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nogami, Teruyo, 1927-
- Standardized Title:
- Tenki machi. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Nogami, Teruyo, 1927-.
- Nogami, Teruyo.
- Script clerks--Japan--Biography.
- Script clerks.
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
- Kurosawa, Akira.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. A witness to its filming-and its near destruction in a fire-over the next fifty years she worked on all the master's films-Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, and Dreams. No one was more closely involved in Kurosawa's productions, and in this memoir, charmingly illustrated with her own sketches, Nogami writes candidly about the director's energy, creativity, and his famous rages, telling the inside story on how so many classics of world cinema were made. B Teruyo Nogami, still a vital part of the film community, lives in Tokyo.
- Contents:
- 1 Mansaku Itami, My First Mentor 16
- Letters 16
- Listening to Memories 21
- A Female Muhomatsu 25
- Images 30
- The Life of a Giant 34
- Face to Face with Death 39
- 2 Life in Miniature: At the Daiei Kyoto Studios 44
- Inside a Small Arena 44
- An Apprentice 48
- Eyes on the Goal 53
- Black-Market Cigarettes 57
- 3 Smiled on by Lady Luck: Rashomon 63
- Akira Kurosawa Arrives 63
- Dancing on Mount Wakakusa 68
- The Camera Work is 100+ 73
- Shooting the Sun 77
- Get the Negative, the Negative! 82
- Lady Luck 88
- Farewell to Kyoto 93
- 4 Toho Paradise 99
- The Fountain 99
- Script Supervisor 104
- Cinematography 109
- Art Direction 115
- The Assistant Director and the Ants 120
- 5 The Past Won't Return: Remembering Dersu Uzala 127
- Off to Siberia 127
- Ticks, Mosquitoes, and Outdoor Toilets 132
- Feeling like Napoleon 139
- Bone-Freezing Night Shoots 144
- Dosvidanya, Sayonara 149
- 6 Kurosawa and Animals 157
- Tigers 157
- Horses 164
- Crows 172
- 7 Kurosawa and Music 183
- A Solo Conductor 183
- Fumio Hayasaka 188
- Masaru Sato 193
- Toru Takemitsu 201
- 8 Sentimental Recollections 210
- Death Notices 210
- Kamatari Fujiwara 215
- Junzaburo Ban and Bokuzen Hidari 220
- Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune 225
- Mifune's Embarrassment 230
- Remembering Juzo Itami 234
- 9 Observing the Kurosawa Group 244
- Director Toshiro Mifune 244
- The Petition 247
- What Really Happened with Shintaro Katsu on Kagemusha 251
- Footfalls of a Giant 261
- Parting Sadness: Director Akira Kurosawa 265
- Kurosawa and Mifune after Red Beard 268
- 10 Akira Kurosawa and World Filmmakers 277
- John Ford 278
- Laurence Olivier 280
- Jean Renoir 281
- Foreign Filmmakers Offer Support 281
- Jean-Luc Godard and John Milius 282
- Werner Herzog 282
- Martin Scorsese 283
- William Friedkin 284
- Sidney Lumet 284
- Francis F. Coppola 284
- George Lucas 285
- John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch 286
- The Directors Guild of America 287
- Afterword to the English Edition 291.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296).
- ISBN:
- 9781933330099
- OCLC:
- 71800682
- Publisher Number:
- 9781933330099
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