Something Like an Autobiography

In this memoir the celebrated Japanese director covers his childhood, early adulthood and the beginning of his film-making career, up to his breakthrough triumph, Rashomon. Oddly enough, it was the stories of his early years that I found most fascinating and moving. Kurosawa was born in 1910, at a t......more

Camera obscura In this autobiography-thing, movie director Akira Kurosawa tells his life experiences from his babyhood to the completion of critically acclaimed Rashōmon (1950). It proves quite a straightforward and chronological account, inasmuch as, when AK digresses, it mostly provides the depth a......more

Kurosawa was a true humanist. This book isn't an explanation of an artist's theories or an explication of his films--just a simple account of the memories of a very full and beautiful life. Yet Kurosawa never ignores his faults either. He just tells his story like it is. Sometimes he's so emotional,......more