Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa

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Stone Bridge Press, Inc., 1 sept. 2006 - 296 pages
A revealing memoir about the director and his films, by his first assistant for fifty years.
 

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Foreword by Donald Richie
7
Mansaku Itami My First Mentor
16
Images 30 The Life of a Giant
34
At the Daiei Kyoto Studios
44
Rashomon
63
The Camera Work is 100+ 73 Shooting the Sun 77 Get
93
Toho Paradise
99
Remembering Dersu Uzala
127
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B. 1927 in Tokyo. She joined Daiei Films in 1949 and since 1950 served as Kurosawa's assistant on every film he made until his death. She now writes about films for magazines and works to spread and protect Kurosawa's legacy. Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.

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