TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kurosawa,Akira
AU  - Oguni,Hideo
AU  - Ide,Masato
TI  - Ran
SN  - 0877733872 (pbk.)
AV  - PN1997 .R23513 1986
U1  - 791.43/72 19
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Shambhala
N1  - Translation of: Ran; "The original screenplay and storyboards of the academy award-winning film"--Cover
N2  - Kurosawa generally is recognized as the best of the modern Japanese filmmakers. He was the first Japanese director to gain international recognition, partly because his storytelling technique is not culture-bound. Rashomon (1950), a story of rape and terror that is told from several different viewpoints, received first prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951; the film's title has become synonymous with the concept of subjective truth expressed in widely varying versions of the same story. The Seven Samurai (1954), a humanistic tale of samurai risking their lives to defend a poor village, is another Kurosawa classic. Kurosawa has always been attracted to Western literature, and two of his most notable films are based on Shakespeare's plays: Throne of Blood (1957), a retelling of Macbeth, and Ran (1985), a masterly reinterpretation of King Lear
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