Akira Kurosawa : interviews / edited by Bert Cardullo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Contributor:

Cardullo, Bert.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998--Interviews.

Kurosawa, Akira.

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Motion picture producers and directors--Japan--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Japan.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]

Summary:

Akira Kurosawa(1910-1998) moved with ease and mastery from subjects mysterious and internal to scenes spectacular and panoramic. Kurosawa was a man of all genres and all periods, bridging the traditional and the modern, the old and the new, the East and the West. He had a flair for fusing Western literature with elements from his native Kabuki theater. Kurosawa became the first Japanese director widely known in the West when his Rashomon won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. His film techniques and storytelling innovations have a greatly influenced European and American film, particularly in westerns. Because of his ability to oversee all aspects of film production to maintain artistic control on almost all of his projects, Kurosawa was known throughout Japan as "the Emperor." Ranging from 1952 to the mid-1990s, this collection includes an interview by Lillian Ross, a conversation with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and a previously unpublished interview with the book's editor.

Contents:

Introducing Japan's Top Director / Ray Falk 3

A Personal Record: Kurosawa and I / Donald Richie 6

Akira Kurosawa: Japan's Poet Laureate of Film / Show Business Illustrated 20

Interview with Akira Kurosawa / Cinema 24

An Afternoon with Kurosawa / R. B. Gadi 31

Interview with Akira Kurosawa / Yoshi Shirai 43

Interview with Akira Kurosawa / Joan Mellen 55

The Warrior Returns / Dan Yakir 67

Tokyo Stories: Kurosawa Interviewed / Tony Rayns 76

Kurosawa on His Innovative Cinema / Audie Bock 88

Profiles: Kurosawa Frames / Lillian Ross 94

Kurosawa Directs a Cinematic Lear / Peter Grilli 125

Kurosawa: An Audience with the Emperor / John Powers 131

Making Films for All the People: An Interview with Akira Kurosawa / Kyoko Hirano 139

The Conversation-Kurosawa and Garcia Marquez / Gabriel Garcia Marquez 145

An Interview with Kurosawa Akira / Kawamoto Saburo 152

Akira Kurosawa / Judy Stone 159

"I Am Simply a Maker of Films": A Visit with the Sensei of the Cinema / Bert Cardullo 166

The Emperor of Film-No, Not Yet! / Fred Marshall 182.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes filmography: pages [xxiii]-xxxix.

ISBN:

9781578069965

1578069963

9781578069972

1578069971

OCLC:

137246000