Akira Kurosawa was the greatest of Japanese directors, acclaimed by Steven Spielberg as 'the pictorial Shakespeare of our time'. Toshiro Mifune was the incomparable actor whose screen presence carried Kurosawa's work around the world. Mifune starred in sixteen of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films, including Rashomon, The Seven Samural, Throne of Blood and Yojimbo. Together they are as indelible a cinematic pairing as John Ford and John Wayne, Ingmar Bergman and Max Von Sydow, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Kurosawa has influenced numerous film-makers, whilst Mifune's screen persona (an ill-kempt warrior-rogue) has been reflected in Hollywood heroes from Clint Eastwood to Bruce Willis. Accompanying a global retrospective of Kurosawa's 30 features, Stuart Galbraith's book details the production and reception of their films together, and is filled with biographical and behind-the-scenes information about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships, with the studios and with each other.
- ISBN10 0571199828
- ISBN13 9780571199822
- Publish Date 12 February 2002 (first published 14 January 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English