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Kurosawa

Introduction by Teruyo Nogami and Peter Grilli
Directed by Adam Low.
US/UK/Japan , 2001, digital video, color, 115 min.

This new documentary surveys the life and career of Japan’s great director, from his youthful days as a painter and left-wing radical to his entrance into the film industry in the 1930s, his brilliant arrival on the international scene with Rashomon at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, and his long postwar career. Using archival footage and interviews with family and friends, director Adam Low goes beyond mere biography to paint a psychological portrait of a complex artist who was marked by the familial and political upheavals of his youth and conflicted by cultural conundrums in his later years.

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