The Warrior's Camera

The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died last year at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. RASHOMON, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJIMBO remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his study of Kurosawa's films, Stephen Prince provides two new chapters that examine Kurosawa's remaining films, placing him in the context of cinema history. Prince also discusses how Kurosawa furnished a template for some well-known Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.