Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)


* March 23, 1910 Tokyo, Japan
 September 6, 1998 Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan


Books on Akira Kurosawa

Mark Thornton Burnett, Courtney Lehmann, Marguerite H. Rippy and Ramona Wray Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli Mark Thornton Burnett, Courtney Lehmann, Marguerite H. Rippy and Ramona Wray
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli
London, UK; New York, 2015

Peter Cowie Akira Kurosawa Peter Cowie
Akira Kurosawa, Master of cinema
New York, NY; Paris; London; Milan, 2010

Bert Cardullo
Out of Asia, The films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou : essays and interviews
Newcastle, 2008

Bert Cardullo (ed.)
Akira Kurosawa, Interviews
Jackson, 2008

Books with substantial mentioning of Akira Kurosawa

John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume I
New York, NY, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Judy Stone Eye on the World Judy Stone
Eye on the World, Conversations with International Filmmakers
Los Angeles, 1997

Hans Beerekamp, Peter van Bueren, Jan Heijs (redactie) Jaarboek Film 1981 Hans Beerekamp, Peter van Bueren, Jan Heijs (redactie)
Jaarboek Film 1981
Bussum, 1981

Peter Cowie (ed.)
50 Major Filmmakers
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1975

Books with an entry on Akira Kurosawa

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Interviews

Tony Rayns, Kurosawa the last emperor, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2010 pp. 32-34

Donald Richie, Kurosawa on Kurosawa, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2010 pp. 34-37

Articles on Akira Kurosawa

Gerhard Midding, Verführerisch virtuos, in: epd Film, nr. 11, 2011 pp. 18-22

Alexander Jacoby, Disputed territories, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2010 pp. 38-40

Stuart Galbraith IV, Misadventures in Hollywood, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2010 pp. 40-41

Tony Rayns, The misfit, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2010 pp. 42

Stephen Prince, Genre and Violence in the Work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah, in: Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004

Films

1946
Waga seishun ni kuinashi

1947
Ginrei no hate

1948
Yoidore tenshi

1949
Nora inu
Shizukanaru kettô

1950
Rashômon
Shûbun

1952
Ikiru

1954
Shichinin no samurai

1955
Ikimono no kiroku

1957
Kumonosu-jô
Donzoko

1960
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
The Magnificent Seven

1961
Yôjinbô

1963
Tengoku to jigoku

1964
The Outrage
Per un pugno di dollari

1965
Akahige

1975
Dersu Uzala

1980
Kagemusha

1985
Ran

1990
Dreams
Yume

1991
Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku
Hachigatsu no rapusodî

1996
Last Man Standing

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