Russian Kurosawa

The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa''s debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for Kurosawa''s worldview expressed by such Russian directors as Grigory Kozintsev and Andrei Tarkovsky. Through a detailed discussion of the Russian s...