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Yo' : If your looking for a good book on Samurai flix ,here's a Great book. It's called "The Samurai Film" by Alain Silver. It's published by; "The Overlook Press". ISBN: 087951-246-6. It goes indepth about the different Genres,Director's,Hero types and the best films. a definite must.
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Yes, a very good book! But it is not as complete in it's listing as it appears at first. The book below has a chronological listing of films which Mifune and Kurasawa were involved with, many of which were samurai films not listed in the Alain Silvers book... i.e. the 3 part series directed by Hiroshi Inagaki about Musashi's rival (name escapes me at the moment) where Mifune played the lead character. Inagaki later directed another film about the same swordsman 10 or 15 years later...
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
by Stuart Galbraith
Paperback: 848 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber; (February 1, 2003)
ISBN: 0571211526
The first -- and long overdue -- English-language biography of two of the world's great cinema figures. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and High and Low -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema. Kurosawa's films inspired blockbuster remakes and influenced directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile, Mifune virtually invented the roaming warrior rogue, a character adapted with great success by actors like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Bruce Willis, and countless others. Their impact on the international film world is undisputable, yet at the very height of their abilities, Kurosawa and Mifune went their separate ways. After Red Beard in 1965 they would never work together again -- nor would they ever achieve the same level of success apart as they had together.
The Emperor and the Wolf is an in-depth look at the life and work of these two luminaries of cinema. Full of behind-the-scenes details about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships with the studios and each other, it is also a provocative look at postwar American and Japanese culture and the different lenses through which the two societies viewed each other.
There are several good web-sites and mailing lists / forums currently on the web about samurai films / chanbara, including this site on yahoo...
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/chanbara/
abayo
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
by Stuart Galbraith
Paperback: 848 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber; (February 1, 2003)
ISBN: 0571211526
The first -- and long overdue -- English-language biography of two of the world's great cinema figures. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and High and Low -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema. Kurosawa's films inspired blockbuster remakes and influenced directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile, Mifune virtually invented the roaming warrior rogue, a character adapted with great success by actors like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Bruce Willis, and countless others. Their impact on the international film world is undisputable, yet at the very height of their abilities, Kurosawa and Mifune went their separate ways. After Red Beard in 1965 they would never work together again -- nor would they ever achieve the same level of success apart as they had together.
The Emperor and the Wolf is an in-depth look at the life and work of these two luminaries of cinema. Full of behind-the-scenes details about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships with the studios and each other, it is also a provocative look at postwar American and Japanese culture and the different lenses through which the two societies viewed each other.
There are several good web-sites and mailing lists / forums currently on the web about samurai films / chanbara, including this site on yahoo...
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/chanbara/
abayo