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Kurosawa

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Kurosawa
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NR,1hr 55min
Genres:
Drama,Documentary
Release:
2001
Director:
Adam Low
Distributor:
Wellspring Media
Starring:
Sam Shepard, Paul Scofield, James Coburn  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
To take in the magnificent career of a filmmaker as prolific and protean as Akira Kurosawa in less than two hours may seem a daunting task, but writer-director Adam Low has succeeded admirably in offering a moving and amazingly detailed portrait of both the man and the artist. The clips are well chosen (even if some films, like High and Low and The Bad Sleep Well, get short shrift), the interviews ... Full Review
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Sam Shepard
Narrator
Paul Scofield
Kurosawa, Voice of Kurosawa
James Coburn
Clint Eastwood
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