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The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
 
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The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (Paperback)
by Stuart Galbraith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (14 Jan 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057120452X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571204526
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 519,607 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top stuff, 20 Jan 2003
By The eighth samurai (London, England) - See all my reviews
If you thought that Kurosawa and Mifune just made samurai flicks then read this book. Chronicalling every single film made by both director and actor individually and together, this book contains so much information your brain will bleed. The stories of the studios, actors and directors are fascinating and the inept reviews by American journalists of the age are, on reflection, hilarious. However, be warned that after reading this book you may want to see every Kurosawa film ever made but you don't stand a chance - many have not and will not ever be released in this country.

A must-read book for all fans of japanese cinema.

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