Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide

by EricSanJuan (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2018

  $44.14

  Akira Kurosawa's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more thirty films, many of them indisputable classics: Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo, among others. During the height of his creative output, Kurosawa became one of the most influential and well-known directors in the world, inspiring filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and movies such as The Magnificent Seven, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and Star Wars. In A Viewer's Guide to Akira Kurosawa, Eric San Juan provides a comprehensive, yet accessible, examination of the artist's entire film career. From early films in the 1940s such as Sanshiro Sugata and No Regrets for Our Youth to Oscar winner Dersu Uzala, San Juan helps readers understand what makes Kurosawa's work so powerful. Each discussion includes a brief synopsis of the film, an engaging analysis, and thoughtful insights into the film's significance. From 1943 to 1993, all of Kurosawa's works are analyzed here including the overlooked television documentary Song of the Horse produced in 1970. In addition to more than twenty photos, A Viewer's Guide to Akira Kurosawa provides rich discussions that will appeal to students of cinema as well as to anyone who wants to learn more about Japan's greatest director.