{"product_id":"long-take","title":"Long Take","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. \"It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies,\" he said. \"In other words, take \u003ci\u003emyself, \u003c\/i\u003esubtract \u003ci\u003emovies, \u003c\/i\u003eand the result is \u003ci\u003ezero\u003c\/i\u003e.\" The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, \u003ci\u003eSomething like an Autobiography, \u003c\/i\u003eended with \u003ci\u003eRashomon, \u003c\/i\u003ethe film that launched him on the world's stage in 1950. \u003ci\u003eLong Take, \u003c\/i\u003efirst published in Japan shortly after Kurosawa's death in 1998, at last tells the story of the rest of his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By turns intimate, provocative, and revealing, \u003ci\u003eLong Take\u003c\/i\u003e creates a dynamic portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings; his conversations with writer Inoue Hisashi and director Yamada Yōji; and essays by his daughter and colleague Kurosawa Kazuko, who details the collaborative history of the \"Kurosawa crew.\" It features a wealth of industry lore, cultural reference points, inside jokes with other filmmakers and writers, and backstories for his own productions, from the earliest to the last. Of particular interest to all cinephiles is an annotated list of Kurosawa's 100 favorite films. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A survey of Kurosawa's prodigious career, this book situates the visionary in the media milieu of his youth, in the literature and performing arts of twentieth-century Japan and Hollywood, and among the myriad films he loved, admired, and referenced, including Japanese silent film and comedy as well as productions from India, Iran, and Soviet-era Russia. Now available to English readers for the first time, \u003ci\u003eLong Take\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lasting picture of the peerless filmmaker in his element. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne McKnight, Akira Kurosawa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47286728098028,"sku":"9781517903282","price":166.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47286728130796,"sku":"9781517903299","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781517903282.jpg?v=1770460551","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/long-take","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}