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Contents Foreword by Donald Richie_ 7 1 Mansaku Itami, My First Mentor_ _ 16 Letters_ 16_ -_Listening to Memories_ 21_ -_ A Female Muho-matsu_25_ -_Images_ 31_ -_The Life of a Giant_ 35_ -_ Face to Face with Death_39 2 Life in Miniature: At the Daiei Kyoto Studios_ _ 44 Inside a Small Arena_ 44_ -_ An Apprentice_ 48_ -_ Eyes on the Goal_ 53_ -_ Black Market Cigarettes_ 57 3 Smiled on by Lady Luck: Rashomon_ _63_ Akira Kurosawa Arrives_ 63_ -_ Dancing on Mount Wakakusa_ 68_ -_The Camera Work is 100+_ 73_ -_ Shooting the Sun_ 77_ -_Get the Negative, the Negative!_ 82_ -_Lady Luck_ 88 Farewell to Kyoto_ 93 4 Toho Paradise_ _ 99 The Fountain_ 99_ -_Script Supervisor_ 104_ -_Cinematography_ 109_ -Art Direction_ 115_ -_ The Assistant Director and the Ants_121 5 The Past Won't Return: Remembering Dersu Uzala_ _127 Off to Siberia_ 127_ -_ Ticks, Mosquitoes, and Outdoor Toilets_ 132 -_Feeling like Napoleon_ 139_ -_ Bone-Freezing Night Shoots_ 144_-_Dosvidanya, Sayonara_ 149 6 Kurosawa and Animals_ _ 157 Tigers_ 157_ -_Horses_ 164_ -_ Crows_ 172 7 Kurosawa and Music_ _ 183 A Solo Conductor_ 183_ -_ Fumio Hayasaka_ 188_ -_ Masaru Sato_193_ -_ Toru Takemitsu_ 201 8 Sentimental Recollections_ 210 Death Notices_ 210_ -_ Kamatari Fujiwara_ 215_ -_ Junzaburo Ban and Bokuzen Hidari_220_ -_ Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune_ 225_ -_ Mifune's Embarrassment_230_ -_ Remembering Juzo Itami_ 234 9 Observing the Kurosawa Group_ _ 244 Director Toshiro Mifune_ 244_ -_The Petition_247_-_What Really Happened with Shintaro Katsu on Kagemusha_ 251_- Footfalls of a Giant_261_ -_ Parting Sadness: Director Akira Kurosawa_266_ -_Kurosawa and Mifune after Red Beard__ 268 10 Akira Kurosawa and World Filmmakers_ _ 277 John Ford_ 278_ -_Laurence Olivier_ 280_ -_Jean Renoir_ 281_ -_Foreign Filmmakers Offer Support_ 281_-_Jean-Luc Godard and John Milius_ 282_ -_Werner Herzog_ 282_ -_Martin Scorsese_ 283_ -_William Friedkin_ 284_ -_Sidney Lumet_ 284 _ -_Francis F. Coppola_ 284_ -_George Lucas_ 285_ -_John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch_ 286_ -_The Directors Guild of America_287 Afterword_ 288 Afterword to the English Edition_291 Notes and Sources_293
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Nogami, Teruyo, 1927-.
Script clerks -- Japan -- Biography.
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.