The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune - Hardcover
Film buffs, particularly fans of Japanese director Kurosawa, will be the main audience for this massive biography of Kurosawa and his most successful leading actor, Toshiro Mifune. Galbraith (an authority on Japanese cinema) thoroughly researched the lives and careers of both men, interviewing many of their colleagues. The development of Kurosawa's highly influential filmmaking style and the story of the relationship between Kurosawa and Mifune are told in exhaustive, chronological detail, as Galbraith recounts the stories behind the many films they made and the international reputations they came to enjoy. The volume includes a detailed filmography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"This is an informative, intelligent and carefully considered study of one of the greatest actor-director teams in the history of cinema, a creative partnership that equaled Ford and Wayne or Léaud and Truffaut. If you have any interest whatsoever in the work of Kurosawa in particular or Japanese cinema in general, The Emperor and the Wolf is a must read." --Martin Scorsese
About the Author:
"This fascinating chronicle of two intertwined lives, filled with new information and informed enthusiasm, is by far the best popular account of an important director and his finest actor." --Donald Richie, author of The Films of Akira Kurosawa
"The Emperor and the Wolf is a terrific book, and long overdue: a well-researched study of how a great director and a great actor fired each other up; an informative history of how high profile Japanese films were received at home and abroad; a surprising genealogy of the modern action hero; and a fresh look at sixteen Kurosawa movies-at least six of them all-time classics. I've seen the ronin trilogy Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro more often than is probably good for me. But this double biography has revealed new layers of meaning in them. So I suppose I'll just have to see them all over again . . ." --Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio Leone: Something to do with Death
Stuart Galbraith IV is the author of numerous articles and four other books on film, including The Japanese Filmography and Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! He lives in Los Angeles.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0571199828
- ISBN 13 9780571199822
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages848
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