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Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998. . Something like an autobiography / Akira Kurosawa ; translated by Audie E. Bock. 0394509382 : series New York : Alfred A. Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1982.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1998.A3 K789413 1982
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1998.A3 K789413 1982
Call#: Van Pelt Library--4 East--Temporary Location Annenberg PN1998.A3 K789413 1982
Call#: Van Pelt Library--4 East--Temporary Location Annenberg PN1998.A3 K789413 1982
10. Akira Kurosawa. Something like an autobiography. New York: Random House Inc. 1983. P.180-187 After World War II, Japan eagerly investigated and pursued options to increase its prestige abroad. This chapter talks about a president of the company ‘Daiei’, Masaichi Nagata, who especially had been continually baffled as to what the movie was about, and was extremely reluctant to send the film to abroad. However, Guilliana Stramigioli, the head of the Italifilm branch in Japan, screened several possible candidates and took a liking to Rashomon. She suggested it be sent to represent Japan. Kurosawa hadn’t even known that it was entered so it was so surprising for him to have several awards including Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival. After he got the prize, Nagata changed his attitude suddenly and was proudly taking full and exclusive credit for its success. What is interesting about this is that Kurosawa later talks about this in his autobiography that he was back in Rashomon all over again. It was as if the pathetic self-delusions of the ego, those failings he had attempted to portray in the film, were being shown in real life. People indeed have immense difficulty in talking about themselves as they really are. However, Japanese people in general had a hard time understanding the film, and Kurosawa says that it is hard because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. He also says that if you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, you will grasp the point of it. 
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