Long Take Akira Kurosawa (Akira Kurosawa, Anne McKnight)

1517903297 University of Minnesota Press 2025

Catergory: Performing Arts, Nonfiction

A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director
For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. "It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies," he said. "In other words, take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero." The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, Something like an Autobiography, ended with Rashomon, the film that launched him on the world’s stage in 1950. Long Take, first published in Japan shortly after Kurosawa’s death in 1998, at last tells the story of the rest of his life.
By turns intimate, provocative, and revealing, Long Take creates a dynamic portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings; his conversations with writer Inoue Hisashi and director Yamada Yōji; and essays by his daughter and colleague Kurosawa Kazuko, who details the collaborative history of the "Kurosawa crew." It features a wealth of industry lore, cultural reference… Click to expand…
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