Kurosawa's Way
- 2011 (2011) (Cannes Film Festival)
English
Japanese
Cantonese
Persian
Korean
Persian[1][2]
Kurosawa's Way (French: Kurosawa, la voie) is a 2011 French documentary directed and written by Catherine Cadou. The film features 11 major filmmakers from Asia, America and Europe as they discuss how the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa influenced them.
Synopsis
Kurosawa's Way is a documentary that is intercut with Catherine Cadou's narration on her own experiences with Kurosawa, and interviews with various directors and archival photographs. The directors' interviews focus on both philosophical and technical observations of Kurosawa's films.[1]
Interviewees
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Julie Taymor
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Shin'ya Tsukamoto
- Hayao Miyazaki
- John Woo
- Martin Scorsese
- Clint Eastwood
- Bong Joon-ho
Release
The film was shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival.[1][2] The documentary was released on the Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection as part of their release of Kurosawa's film Dreams.[3]
Reception
Variety praised the film, referring to it as "Meticulously crafted" and "engrossing".[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Simon, Alissa (January 18, 2013). "Kurosawa's Way". Variety. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
- ^ a b "Kurosawa's Way". Tokyo International Film Festival. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
- ^ "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams". Criterion Collection. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
External links
- Kurosawa's Way at IMDb
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- Yōko Yaguchi (wife)
- Kazuko Kurosawa (daughter)
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