Toshirō Mifune: Between Extravagance and Subtlety Andrea Grunert March 2017 Feature Articles “Without Toshirō Mifune, the films of Akira Kurosawa could never have come into being,” wrote Kurosawa’s longtime script supervisor and principal assistant Teruyo Nogami in her memoirs. The collaboration betwee...
Kobayashi, Masaki Andrea Grunert July 2016 Great Directors b. 14 February 1916, Otaru, Japan. d. 4 October 1996, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Masaki Kobayashi’s career coincides with the so-called Golden Age of Japanese cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the fact that...
