The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
- ISBN-10
- 0691010463
- ISBN-13
- 9780691010465
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 417
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-11-14
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Stephen Prince
Description
The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died last year (1998) at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. This study provides an addition to both Kurosawa and Japanese film scholarship.
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