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Directed by | Catherine Cadou |
Written by | Catherine Cadou |
Produced by | Michiko Yoshitake[1] |
Starring | Theodoros 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 by | Catherine Cadou[1] |
Cinematography | Alexis Kavyrchine Simon Beaufils Tsuneo Azuma Tempei Iwakiri Yoshihiro Ikeuchi[1] |
Edited by | Cedric Defert[1] |
Distributed by | The Criterion Collection |
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Running time | 52 minutes |
Country | France[1] |
Languages | French English Japanese Cantonese Persian Korean Persian[1][2] |
Kurosawa's Way (French:Kurosawa, la voie) is a 2011 French documentary directed and written byCatherine Cadou. The film features 11 major filmmakers from Asia, America and Europe as they discuss how the films of Japanese directorAkira Kurosawa influenced them.
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]
The film was shown at the 2011Cannes Film Festival and the 24thTokyo International Film Festival.[1][2] The documentary was released on the Blu-ray and DVD by theCriterion Collection as part of their release of Kurosawa's filmDreams.[3]
Variety praised the film, referring to it as "Meticulously crafted" and "engrossing".[1]
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