Self - Film Historian
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
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허우샤오시엔과 에드워드 양으로 대표되는 대만 뉴웨이브가 세계 영화계에서 부상하게 된 과정과 그들의 영화가 세계 영화계에 미친 영향을 탐구하는 다큐멘터리.
Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son.
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A 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
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Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece
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Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa
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An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
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