Plot & Details
Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and most influential. His award-winning feature Rashomon was one of the first major international successes in Japanese filmmaking, convincing many western cineastes for the first time that Japan had a national cinema worth investigating, and his subsequent body of work -- including Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and Ran -- is emotionally rich and esthetically compelling in a way few filmmakers can match. Kurosawa is a documentary which explores the personal and professional lives of this giant of world cinema, including interviews with his friends, family, contemporaries, actors, fellow filmmakers, and noted cinema historians -- and in archival clips, Kurosawa himself.
- Genre(s): Documentary,Special Interest
- Run Time: 115min.
- DVD Release Date: 04/23/2002
- Director(s): Adam Low
- Starring: Sam Shepard , Paul Scofield , James Coburn , Clint Eastwood , Shinobu Hashimoto
- Themes: Life in the Arts,Filmmaking
- Tone: Literate,Passionate,Poignant,Reflective
- Keywords: Japanese [nationality],cinema,cross-cultural-relations,director,filmmaker
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