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    Akira Kurosawa

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    Embark on a cinematic journey through the life and legacy of Akira Kurosawa, the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker and painter, in this comprehensive biography. Born on March 23, 1910, Kurosawa left…

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    Akira Kurosawa - Screenwriter

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    Something Like An Autobiography

    Akira Kurosawa

    The distinguished filmmaker chronicles his life from his birth in 1910 to the worldwide success in 1951 of his film Rashomon and provides a provocative account of the Japanese film…

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    Akira Kurosawa

    Peter Wild

    This book both evaluates Kurosawa’s films and offers a view of the man behind the camera, covering his family life and his legendary place on the global film-making stage.

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    Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer’s Guide

    Eric San Juan

    This is an accessible look at the films of Akira Kurosawa, whose movies are works of art and popular culture touchstones, influencing such directors as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg…

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    Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema

    James Goodwin

    In this text, Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore Kurosawa’s use of a variety of texts to create cinema that is both intertextual and intercultural. He…

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    Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan

    David A. Conrad

    Akira Kurosawa’s films evolved as Japan redefined and reinvented itself, from films made for Japan’s wartime regime to those made amid the trials of American occupation. This book explores how…

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    The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa

    Stephen Prince

    The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. This book discusses how Kurosawa furnished a…

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    The Cross Cultural Camera of Akira Kurosawa

    Mpaki Molapo

    Akira Kurosawa is one of the defining filmmakers of the twentieth century. This book analyses some of his more celebrated films, including ‘Kagemusha’ (1980, ) ‘Rashomon’ (1950, ) ‘Seven Samurai’…

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    Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I

    Shinobu Hashimoto

    Originally published as: Fukugan no eizao: watashi to Kurosawa Akira. Japan: Bungeishunju, A2006.

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    Compound Cinematics (paperback)

    Shinobu Hashimoto

    Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his…

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    How to Improve Your Movie Literacy with Akira Kurosawa

    Shawn Swanky

    Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a Japanese movie director whose movies were enjoyed all over the world. Although he made over 30 movies with a wide range of themes and settings…

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    The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated

    Donald Richie

    This study examines the work of Akira Kurosawa, one of the century’s greatest film directors. It discusses his choice of themes, story-telling technique, camera work and directorial style. New to…

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    Akira Kurosawa’‘s the Bad Sleep Well: Analysis, Drawings and Diagrams

    Salvador Edmundo Rosillo

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    Entre Tradicion y Modernizacion en los filmes de Akira Kurosawa

    Claritza Arlenet Pena Zerpa

    La filmografia de Akira Kurosawa ha mantenido en nuestros dias una cantidad importante de adeptos. Mas alla de esto, cada vez se redescubre entre la comunidad de academicos y artistas…

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    The Hero and the Grave: The Theme of Death in the Films of John Ford, Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone

    Alireza Vahdani

    The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Focusing on Western and Japanese period genre films, the author examines the…

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    Dersu Uzala | Imprint Collection #158

    Kurosawa’s Academy Award Winning Masterpiece

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    Filming Shakespeare’s Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa

    Anthony Davies (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)

    This book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema’s dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and…

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    Filming Shakespeare’s Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa

    Anthony Davies (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)

    While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema’s dramatic language in the film adaptations of…

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    Something Like an Autobiography

    Akira Kurosawa

    The distinguished filmmaker chronicles his life from his birth in 1910 to the worldwide success in 1951 of his film Rashomon and provides a provocative account of the Japanese film…

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    Akira Kurosawa

    The distinguished filmmaker chronicles his life from his birth in 1910 to the worldwide success in 1951 of his film Rashomon and provides a provocative account of the Japanese film…

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    Akira Kurosawa

    The distinguished filmmaker chronicles his life from his birth in 1910 to the worldwide success in 1951 of his film Rashomon and provides a provocative account of the Japanese film…

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    Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Boll, Hermann Hesse, Albert Einstein, Friedrich Nietzsche

    Mihajlo Bugarinovic

    (Like any philosophy that Mihajlo Bugarinovic writes...) All the bibliographies mentioned in the philosophy's title, as the relative, the relative bibliography and the rational problem of the "limit" as the…

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    Jujutsu Kaisen : Season 1 : Part 1 | Collector’s Edition

    A boy fights… for \“the right death.\”

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    Akira Kurosawa Notebook: Great Notebook for School or as a Diary, Lined With More than 100 Pages. Notebook that can serve as a Planner, Journal, Notes and for Drawings.

    Kurosawa Notebooks

    Akira Kurosawa Notebook for School or as a Diary, Lined With More than 100 Pages.Notebook that can serve as a Planner, Journal, Notes and for Drawings.

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