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A Rare-and-Brief Glimpse of Director Akira Kurosawa
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This chapter is set at a Tokyo meeting of international journalists with Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, at a hotel on Mount Fuji. Kurosawa is there to discuss Ran, his 16th century tale of Lord Mori, a King Lear-like personage with three sons replacing Lear’s three daughters. There is also in Ran a femme fatale, Lady Kaede, who could be said to resemble Lady Macbeth. Kurosawa insists that “About Shakespeare, I am not a specialist,” and that he chose to make a film about Lord Mori not for King Lear because “I liked his personality. If he lived in Kyoto, he would have united Japan.”
Title: A Rare-and-Brief Glimpse of Director Akira Kurosawa
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This chapter is set at a Tokyo meeting of international journalists with Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, at a hotel on Mount Fuji.
Kurosawa is there to discuss Ran, his 16th century tale of Lord Mori, a King Lear-like personage with three sons replacing Lear’s three daughters.
There is also in Ran a femme fatale, Lady Kaede, who could be said to resemble Lady Macbeth.
Kurosawa insists that “About Shakespeare, I am not a specialist,” and that he chose to make a film about Lord Mori not for King Lear because “I liked his personality.
If he lived in Kyoto, he would have united Japan.
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