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All the Emperor's Men: Kurosawa's Pearl Harbor

ISBN-13: 9784770031389

Contributor(s): Hiroshi Tasogawa

Subjects: Film Theory & Criticism

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Books

Publication Date: 01-04-2011

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£17.99

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About the book

The Japanese-American movie about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor should have had the Japanese sequences directed by none other than Akira Kurosawa. It was not to be. What was Kurosawa fighting against and with whom? This title intends to close in on the truth about Kurosawa's humiliating dismissal and to examine the ideas he had about the movie. The world of the cinema is lacking a singular masterpiece: the version of Tora, Tora, Tora! that ought to have been but that never made it to the screen. The Japanese-American movie about Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor should