Long Take - Paperback
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Long Take
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...
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a Japanese filmmaker, widely considered one of the most important and influential in the history of cinema. He directed thirty films, including Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), and Kagemusha (1980).
Anne McKnight is associate professor of Japanese and comparative literature at the University of California...
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