Kurosawa's Way

Kurosawa's Way
French film poster for Kurosawa's Way
Directed byCatherine Cadou
Written byCatherine Cadou
Produced byMichiko Yoshitake[1]
StarringTheodoros Angelopoulos
Bernardo Bertolucci
Clint Eastwood
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Bong Joon Ho
Mohammad Khalkhalian
Abbas Kiarostami
Hayao Miyazaki
Martin Scorsese
Julie Taymor
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
John Woo
Narrated byCatherine Cadou[1]
CinematographyAlexis Kavyrchine
Simon Beaufils
Tsuneo Azuma
Tempei Iwakiri
Yoshihiro Ikeuchi[1]
Edited byCedric Defert[1]
Distributed byThe Criterion Collection
Release date
  • 2011 (2011) (Cannes Film Festival)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryFrance[1]
LanguagesFrench
English
Japanese
Cantonese
Persian
Korean
Persian[1][2]

Kurosawa's Way (French: Kurosawa, la voie) is a 2011 French documentary directed and written by Catherine Cadou. The film features 11 major filmmakers from Asia, America and Europe as they discuss how the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa influenced them.

Synopsis

Kurosawa's Way is a documentary that is intercut with Catherine Cadou's narration on her own experiences with Kurosawa, and interviews with various directors and archival photographs. The directors' interviews focus on both philosophical and technical observations of Kurosawa's films.[1]

Interviewees

Release

The film was shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival.[1][2] The documentary was released on the Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection as part of their release of Kurosawa's film Dreams.[3]

Reception

Variety praised the film, referring to it as "Meticulously crafted" and "engrossing".[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Simon, Alissa (January 18, 2013). "Kurosawa's Way". Variety. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Kurosawa's Way". Tokyo International Film Festival. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  3. ^ "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams". Criterion Collection. Retrieved November 21, 2016.


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