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Kurosawa's Rashomon : A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films, EPUB eBook

Kurosawa's Rashomon : A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films EPUB

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A groundbreaking investigation into the early life of the iconic Akira Kurosawa in connection to his most famous filmtaking us deeper into Kurosawa and his world.

Paul Anderer looks back at Kurosawa before he became famous, taking us into the turbulent world that made him. We encounter Tokyo, Kurosawa's birthplace, which would be destroyed twice before his eyes; explore early twentieth-century Japan amid sweeping cross-cultural changes; and confront profound family tragedy alongside the horror of war.

With fresh insights and vivid prose, Anderer discusses the Great Earthquake of 1923, the dynamic energy that surged through Tokyo in its wake, and its impact on Kurosawa as a youth. When the city is destroyed again, in the fire-bombings of 1945, Anderer reveals how Kurosawa grappled with the trauma of war and its aftermath, and forged his artistic vision. Finally, he resurrects the specter and the voice of a gifted and troubled older brotherhimself a star in the silent film industrywho took Kurosawa to see his first films, and who led a rebellious life until his desperate end.

Kurosawa's Rashomon uncovers how a film like Rashomon came to be, and why it endures to illuminate the shadows and the challenges of our present.

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