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Akira Kurosawa
The Emperor of Peace.
Internet Resources:
- Akira Kurosawa
Database - this is an excellent and beautiful web site that has
everything on AK. Also in
Japanese.
http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKpage.html
- Akira
Kurosawa page by Dan Kim – An excellent filmography, a biographical
timeline, and a promise of film clips to come.
http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/monkeys/273/index2.html
- Akira Kurosawa
at the Internet Movie Database
has what is probably the most complete filmography online.
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kurosawa,+Akira
- The
Epic Images of Kurosawa By Stu Kobak, a very interesting illustrated
essay from Films
on Disc Internet Magazine.
http://www.filmsondisc.com/features/kurosawa/epicimagesofkurosawa.htm
- Kurosawa:
Stray Dog, The Lower Depths, and The Bad Sleep Well, video review
by Gary Morris in Images:
A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/reviews/kurosawa.htm
- The Emperor
of Film -- No, not yet! Fred Marshall speaks with Akira Kurosawa
about his film Madadayo (No, Not Yet!) when it was first released
in 1992. A short intervirew from KINEMA,
a Journal of History, Theory and Aesthetics of Film and Audiovisual
Media.
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/mrshl931.htm
- Kurosawa
Akira's Filmography With separate pages giving detail of a few
of the films.
http://www.kiwi-us.com/~watabe/kurosawa.html
- A Tribute to Akira Kurosawa's
Dreams Nicely presented stills from the different parts
of the film.
http://www.aisb.org/~ddj/dreams/
- Akira
Kurosawa Home Page This page is mostly links, with some images.
http://members.aol.com/ronintom/Kurosawa.htm
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Here's a Japanese homepage site for AK!
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zc2t-ogw/MKHome/AKHome/AKHome.htm
- The
Seven Samurai from Striga's Cool Movie List. This is a description
of the movie with some pictures.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/5102/sevensam.html
- "Endear
Pages" -My Great Akira Kurosawa This page is in Japanese.
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~endear/ak/ak.html
- Kurosawa
and the Spaghetti Western and Seven
Samurai and The Magnificent Seven A couple of short essays on
films by AK.
http://www.baylor.edu/~Brooks_Grigson/papers/Kurosawa.html
Video:
- DealPilot.com (formerly
acses.com) will give you listings from many online sellers of video,
including all the major ones, and facilitates price comparisons.
Books:
- Check the Library of Congress
Catalogs to find out what may be available from your library or
through interlibrary loan.
http://catalog.loc.gov/
- DealPilot.com
(formerly acses.com) will give you listings from many online booksellers,
including all the major ones, and facilitates price comparisons.
- Complete
listings for Akira Kurosawa at Amazon.com includes the following
selected titles:
- Something
Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa,1910-1998 Uniform
Title: Gama no abura.; translated by Audie E. Bock. New
York : Vintage Books, 1983, c1982. LC Call No.: PN1998.A3 K789413
1983 Paperback Published by, 1983 ISBN: 0394714393
- Seven
Samurai : And Other Screenplays : Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne
of Blood by Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (Translator).
Paperback (June 1992) Faber & Faber; ISBN: 057116224X
- The
films of Akira Kurosawa, by Donald Richie with additional
material by Joan Mellen. Berkeley : University
of California Press, 1984. LC Call No.: PN1998.A3 K795 1984
Paperback - 280 pages 3rd Expanded edition (January 1999) Univ
California Press; ISBN: 0520220374
- Rashomon (Rutgers Films in Print, Vol 6) by Akira Kurosawa
(Photographer), Donald Richie (Editor)
Paperback
- 201 pages (February 1987) Rutgers Univ Press; ISBN: 0813511801
Hardcover
(April 1987) Rutgers Univ Press; ISBN: 0813511798
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