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Yunfei Shang

Yunfei Shang is a Ph.D. student at the Department for Asian Cultures & Languages at the University of Texas at Austin.

Review of Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (2022) by David Conrad

August 24, 2022

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) must be one of the most written-about directors in film history. There are over 20 books in English exclusively devoted to Kurosawa. These include Donald Richie’s The Films of Kurosawa (1965), David Desser’s The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa, (1983), Stephen Prince’s The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1991), Yoshimoto […]

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