The Akira Kurosawa Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Akira Kurosawa (Paperback)

Akira Kurosawa (Japanese: Hepburn: Kurosawa Akira?, March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films note 1] in a career spanning 57 years.

This book is your ultimate resource for Akira Kurosawa. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Akira Kurosawa's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Akira Kurosawa, 1950 in film, 1980 Cannes Film Festival, 87th Precinct, 9th Moscow International Film Festival, A Fistful of Dollars, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Honorary Award, After the Rain (film), Akemi Negishi, Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition, Anaheim University, Andrei Tarkovsky, Asakazu Nakai, Auteur theory, Axial cut, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Bokuzen Hidari, Buddy cop film, Criticism of Akira Kurosawa, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Fumio Hayasaka, George Lucas, Hayao Miyazaki, High and Low (1963 film), Hyakken Uchida, I Live in Fear, Ikiru, In a Grove, Ingmar Bergman, Isao Kimura, Isuzu Yamada, Jidaigeki...and more pages

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