The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune

By (author): "Stuart Galbraith IV, Stuart Galbraith"
Publish Date: 2002
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
ISBN0571199828
ISBN139780571199822
AsinThe Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
Original titleThe Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema. The Emperor and the Wolf is an in-depth look at these two great artists and their legacy that brims with behind-the-scenes details, many never before known, about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships with the studios and with one another. More than just a biography, though, The Emperor and the Wolf is also an impromptu history of Japanese cinema -- its development, filmmakers, and performers -- and a provocative look at postwar American and Japanese culture and the different lenses through which two great societies viewed each other.