Akira Kurosawa
Kurosawa, Akira - äkēˈrä koorōˈsäwä, 1910–98, Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and producer, b. Tokyo. He is regarded as one of the world's greatest directors. In Rashomon (1950), he introduced Western audiences to Japanese film. Its bleakly humanistic stance toward the slippery nature of truth and its highly charged visual style Read More...
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Film and the Critical Eye (Chap. 11 "Rashomon Directed by Akira Kurosawa")
by Dennis DeNitto, William Herman. 548 pgs.
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Video Versions: Film Adaptations of Plays on Video ("Ran (1985)" begins on p. 184)
by Thomas L. Erskine, James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Tony Williams. 418 pgs.
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The Oxford History of World Cinema ("Akira Kurosawa" begins on p. 716)
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Artists, Writers, and Musicians: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World (Discussion of Akira Kurosawa begins on p. 107)
by Michel-Andre Bossy, Thomas Brothers, John C. McEnroe. 245 pgs.
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Black Rain: Reflections on Hiroshima and Nuclear War in Japanese Film, in Cross Currents
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Masterful 'Samurai': AFI Revives Kurosawa, Mifune Collaboration, in The Washington Times
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Artists, Writers, and Musicians: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World ("Kurosawa, Akira" begins on p. 107)
by Michel-Andre Bossy, Thomas Brothers, Kim Domenico, Steven Goldberg, James Manheim, John C. Mcenroe, John C. Mcenroe, Deborah Pokinski, Sasha Watson. 245 pgs.
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