Akira Kurosawa

Week of March 19, 2012

Akira Kurosawa

In the News: March 23rd is the birthday of the late Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), legendary Japanese director of the classic films Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Ikiru.

 

BOOKS

Akira Kurosawa: A Guide to References and Resources
By Patricia Erens. G. K. Hall, 1979
Call Number: PN1998 .A3 K789

Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema
By Poeter Cowie. Rizzoli, 2010
Call Number: PN1998.3 .K87 C69 2010

Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
By James Goodwin. Johns Hopkins UP, 1994
Call Number: PN1998.3 .K87 G66 1994

The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
By Stuart Galbraith. Faber and Faber, 2002
Call Number: PN1998.3 .K87 G35 2002

The Films of Akira Kurosawa
By Donald Richie. UC Press, 1965
Call Number: PN1993.5 .J3 R47

Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
By Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto. Duke University Press, 2000
Call Number: PN1998.3 .K87 Y67 2000

Seven Samurai
By Joan Mellen. BFI Pub., 2002
Call Number: PN1997 .S4726 M44 2002

Something Like an Autobiography
By Akira Kurosawa. Translated by Audie E. Bock. Knopf, 1982
Call Number: PN1998 .A3 K789413

The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
By Stephen Prince. Princeton UP, 1999
Call Number; PN1998.3 .K87 P75 1999

VIDEOS (at Boca Raton Media Center)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Call Number: PN1997 .W375 2006

Hidden Fortress (1958)
Call Number: PN1997 .K223 2001

The Idiot (1951)
Call Number: PN1997 .H3458 2007

Ikiru (1952)
Call Number: PN1997 .I443 2004

Kagemusha (1980)
Call Number: PN1997 .K22256 2005

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
Call Number: PN1997 .T62676 2010

The Most Beautiful (1944)
Call Number: PN1997 .I2626 2010

One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Call Number: PN1997 .S77683 2007

Ran (1985)
Call Number: PN1997 .R226 2005

Rashomon (1950)
Call Number: VH 915 (DVD on order)

Sanjuro (1962)
Call Number: PN1997 .T7838 2007

Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Call Number: PN1997 .S1736 2010

Sanshiro Sugata, Part 2 (1945)
Call Number: PN1997 .Z6587 2010

Scandal (1950)
Call Number: PN1997 .S47866 2007

Seven Samurai (1954)
Call Number: PN1997 .S474 2006

Stray Dog (1949)
Call Number: PN1997 .N537 2004

Yojimbo (1961)
Call Number: PN1997 .Y54 2007