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'''Zarda''', more commonly known as '''Power Princess''', is a [[fictional]] [[Marvel Comics]] character. Two different versions of the character appear in two separate (but related) continuities.
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|date_of_birth=[[23 March]], [[1910]]
|place_of_birth=[[Ota, Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
|date_of_death=[[6 September]], [[1998]]
|place_of_death=[[Setagaya, Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
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'''Akira Kurosawa''' (黒澤 明 ''Kurosawa Akira'', also 黒沢 明 in [[Shinjitai]], [[23 March]], [[1910]] – [[6 September]], [[1998]]) was a prominent [[Japan]]ese [[film director]], [[film producer]], and [[screenwriter]].
==Various incarnations of Power Princess==
Few filmmakers have had a career so long or so acclaimed as Akira Kurosawa, perhaps Japan's best-known filmmaker. His films greatly influenced an entire generation of filmmakers the world over, ranging from [[George Lucas]] to [[Sergio Leone]].
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The more traditional one resides on [[Earth-712]] (not the traditional [[Marvel Universe]] [[Earth-616]] which is populated by classic [[Spider-Man]], the original version of the [[Fantastic Four]], etc.) and is a member of the superhero group, the [[Squadron Supreme]]. More recently, she has also joined the [[Exiles (Marvel Comics)|Exiles]]. Her character was originally developed as a thinly disguised analog of [[DC Comics]]' [[Wonder Woman]].
Since the debut of Marvel's [[MAX (comics)|MAX]] title ''[[Supreme Power]]'', the Squadron Supreme characters have been reintroduced in a new, previously unexplored continuity (an alternate universe later designated as Earth-31916). The Supreme Power continuity has a version of Power Princess as well.
His first credited film (''[[Sanshiro Sugata|Sugata Sanshiro]]'') was released in 1943; his last (''[[Madadayo]]'') in 1993. His many awards include the [[Legion d'Honneur]] and an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for Lifetime Achievement.
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==Power Princess: Squadron Supreme==
==Early career==
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Kurosawa was born in [[Ota, Tokyo|Omori]], [[Tokyo]], the youngest of seven children. He trained as a painter and began work in the film industry as an assistant director to Kajiro Yamamoto in 1936. He made his directorial debut in 1943 with ''[[Sanshiro Sugata|Sugata Sanshiro]]''. His first few films were made under the watchful eye of the wartime Japanese government and sometimes contained nationalistic themes. For instance, ''[[The Most Beautiful]]'' is a propaganda film about Japanese women working in an armaments factory. ''[[Sanshiro Sugata Part II|Judo Saga 2]]'' has been held to be explicitly anti-American in the way that it portrays Japanese [[judo]] as superior to western (American) [[boxing]].
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|character_name=Power Princess
|real_name=Princess Zarda
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|debut=[[Defenders (comics)|Defenders]] #112 (October, [[1982]])
|creators= [[J. M. DeMatteis]] (writer), [[Don Perlin]] (artist)
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|alliances=[[Squadron Supreme]],<br>formerly the Golden Agency, [[Exiles (Marvel Comics)|Exiles]]
|relatives=Howard Shelton (common law husband, deceased)
|powers=Flight<br> Invulnerability<br>Superhuman strength and speed<br>Does not age<br> Over 500 years of combat experience|}}
===Fictional character biography===
Princess Zarda of Earth-712 lived on Utopia Isle, a small island in the southern sea, untouched by outside [[civilization]]. The Utopians believe themselves to be the result of genetic experimentation conducted upon [[Homo sapiens]]; they are, indeed, the equivalent on the Squadron's Earth of the [[Inhumans]]. While the rest of [[Homo sapiens]] were making [[flint]] spearheads, the Utopians developed an advanced [[culture]] based on peace, fellowship and experience or learning. On their little island community, people knew no [[poverty]], [[injustice]], [[war]], [[crime]], or [[sexual discrimination]]. After the outside world made the first [[atom bomb]], the Utopians believed their way of life was in jeopardy. Building a starship, they left Earth to find a new home. Princess Zarda chose to remain behind as their sole emissary to the earth, a role she had assumed some years earlier as Power Princess. During this time, she was a member of the World War II team known as the Golden Agency, along with fellow members [[Blue Eagle (comics)|American Eagle]] and [[Professor Imam]], the [[Sorcerer Supreme]] of the Squadron's Earth.
Living in Capitol City, she married Howard Shelton (mirroring the relationship between [[Steve Trevor]] and the [[Golden Age of Comic Books|golden age]] [[Wonder Woman]]), a sailor whom she met during "the war" (possibly [[World War II]]). Howard was the sole survivor of a sinking ship and the first outsider Zarda met. Howard aged normally while Zarda appears to be the same age as she was when they met, 50–60 years earlier. Unknowingly, Howard was killed by Hyperion 2, leaving Zarda free to pursue a romantic relationship with [[Hyperion (comics)|Hyperion]].
His first post-war film ''No regrets for our youth'', by contrast, is critical of the old Japanese regime and is about the wife of a left-wing dissident arrested for his political leanings. Kurosawa made several more films dealing with contemporary Japan, most notably ''[[Drunken Angel]]'' and ''[[Stray Dog]]''. However it was a period film ''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]'' which made him internationally famous and won the [[Golden Lion]] at the [[Venice Film Festival]].
Defending the Earth-712 against an attack by the Nth Man, Power Princess and the Squadron Supreme were strandard on Earth-616. Some time later, with the help of the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]], the Squadron Supreme were returned to Earth-712.
== Directorial approach ==
When [[Proteus (comics)|Proteus]], the [[Exiles (Marvel Comics)|Exiles']] archenemy, showed up one day, he tricked the Squadron Supreme into battling the Exiles. While the Exiles were distracted, Proteus fled to another reality. When Hyperion decided to join the Exiles, Power Princess stopped him, saying that Hyperion is needed in his own world. Power Princess then left with the Exiles to catch Proteus, despite the objections of [[Blink (comics)|Blink]]. However, under her guidance and direction, the Exiles came the closest they have ever been to beating Proteus. Unfortunately, when she threw one of the blades of [[Longshot]], she missed Proteus and hit the [[Maestro (comics)|Maestro]] instead, setting him off. The Maestro fought the Exiles, and then Proteus fought Maestro. Proteus took the body of [[Morph (comics)|Morph]] and fled, despite Zarda's plan she considered foolproof. After finally defeating Proteus by trapping him in Morph's body, Power Princess remained an Exile to continue fixing damaged realities. She also suggested that Blink bury [[Mimic (Exiles)|Mimic]] in his home reality. Otherwise Blink would have buried him in the desert of Panoptichron. Power Princess left the team to return to the [[Squadron Supreme]] in Exiles #90, making her the first member to voluntarily quit the Exiles. She was replaced by [[Psylocke]].
Kurosawa had a distinctive cinematic technique, which he had developed by the 1950s, and which gave his films a unique look. He liked using telephoto lenses for the way they flattened the frame and also because he believed that placing cameras farther away from his actors produced better performances. He also liked using multiple cameras, which allowed him to shoot an action from different angles. Another Kurosawa trademark was the use of weather elements to heighten mood: for example the heavy rain in the final battle in ''Seven Samurai'' and the fog in ''Throne of Blood''. Kurosawa also liked using left-to-right frame wipes as a transition device.
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He was known as "Tenno", literally "Emperor", for his dictatorial directing style. He was a perfectionist who spent enormous amounts of time and effort to achieve the desired visual effects. In ''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]'', he dyed the rain water black with calligraphy ink in order to achieve the effect of heavy rain, and ended up using up the entire local water supply of the ___location area in creating the rainstorm. In ''[[Throne of Blood]]'', in the final scene in which Mifune is shot by arrows, Kurosawa used real arrows shot by expert archers from a short range, landing within centimetres of Mifune's body.
Power Princess is superhumanly strong and is considered the third strongest super-being on her Earth, with Hyperion and Redstone being first and second, respectively.
She can fly, although her upper limits are not established. She possesses a great deal of physical resiliance and durability: she is able to withstand repeated blows redirected from Hyperion. She carries a shield made of an undisclosed substance which is extremely durable. She sometimes wears a suit of armour to enhance her natural resiliance.
Other stories include demanding a stream be made to run in the opposite direction in order to get a better visual effect, and having the roof of a house removed, later to be replaced, because he felt the roof's presence to be unattractive in a short sequence filmed from a train.
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==Power Princess: Supreme Power==
His perfectionism also showed in his approach to costumes: he felt that giving an actor a brand new costume made the character look less than authentic. To resolve this, he often gave his cast their costumes weeks before shooting was to begin and required them to wear them on a daily basis and “bond with them.” In some cases, such as with Seven Samurai, where most of the cast portrayed poor farmers, the actors were told to make sure the costumes were worn down and tattered.
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|caption=Power Princess from '''Supreme Power'''. Art by Gary Frank.
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|real_name=Princess Zarda
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|creators= [[J. Michael Straczynski]] (writer), [[Gary Frank]] (artist)
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|aliases=Claire Debussy<BR>Princess of Power
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===Fictional character biography===
The new Princess debuted in ''[[Supreme Power]]'' #2. Apparently a [[Greek god]]dess who sleeps in a [[mausoleum]], at one point she wakes up and finds the injured [[Hyperion (Supreme Power)|Hyperion]], healing him. She alludes to having similar origins to Hyperion (they are both aliens) and a mission to colonize and conquer the planet, but her memories seem mixed up.
After separating, Zarda goes on a rampage, disregarding human life and private property. She attempted to remove [[Doctor Spectrum]]'s power prism but the crystal's intellect contacted her. It informed her that she was "broken" in some way (no doubt referring to her rather obvious insanity) and that it could not fix her despite her request to do so. She then was attacked by [[Amphibian (comics)|Amphibian]] in retaliation for harming Spectrum. We are shown through Amphibian's eyes, that both Doc Spectrum and Zarda have energy halos around them that bear an obvious resemblance to alien beings (particularly the [[White Martians]] of DC Comics. Spectrum only exhibits this when the prism crystal takes control of him, revealing its origin and intelligence). After, Doc has no memory of the exchange, revealing further that his prism has the ability to control him when it wants to. Later, Zarda kills a woman and steals her identification in hopes of starting anew, while working in a women's clothing store.
Kurosawa did not believe that “finished” music went well with film. When choosing a musical piece to accompany his scenes, he usually had it stripped down to one element (e.g., trumpets only). Only towards the end of his films do we hear more finished pieces.
After that she made herself known to the [[federal government of the United States]], as Claire Debussy. But running her background down is hard. She said that her codename is Zarda, but at her power level the government did not push it. Later a liaison officer asked her to fill in some Identification and non-disclosure forms, but Zarda lied to the officer saying she can not remember details due to an "accident". After General Richard Alexander asked why she called herself Zarda, thinking it to be an old [[nickname]], he informed her that [[focus groups]] came up with ''Power Princess''. After he asked her what she thought about the name, she said ''Princess of Power'' would be better, but the General said that it was already copyrighted (referring to [[She-Ra: Princess of Power]], a cartoon related to [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]).
== Influences ==
A notable feature of Kurosawa's films is the breadth of his artistic influences. Some of his plots are adaptations of [[William Shakespeare]]'s works: ''[[Ran (film)|Ran]]'' is based on ''[[King Lear]]'' and ''Throne of Blood'' is based on ''[[Macbeth]]'', while ''[[The Bad Sleep Well]]'' parallels ''[[Hamlet]]'', but is not affirmed to be based on it. Kurosawa also directed film adaptations of Russian literary works, including ''[[The Idiot (novel)|The Idiot]]'' by [[Dostoevsky]] and ''[[The Lower Depths]]'', a play by [[Maxim Gorky]]. ''Ikiru'' was based on [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s ''[[The Death of Ivan Ilyich]]''. ''[[High and Low]]'' was based on ''[[King's Ransom]]'' by [[United States|American]] [[crime]] writer [[Ed McBain]], [[Yojimbo]] was based on [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s [[The Red Harvest]] and also borrows from American [[Western (genre)|Westerns]], and ''[[Stray Dog]]'' was inspired by the detective novels of [[Georges Simenon]]. The American film director [[John Ford]] also had a large influence on his work.
An African general named John M'Butu, a fast-rising tribal leader gifted with a powerful psychic suggestion ability and calling himself the Voice, is leading a genocidal campaign in the Salawe region of Uganda. The US government identifies him as a super-human after he survives an assassination attempt. The team is sent to the region "to take him out", early in the fight, Hyperion, Doctor Spectrum and Amphibian are affected by M'Butu's power to control anyone who hears his voice. M'Butu commands the trio to hunt down their comrades. Zarda immediately notices that there is another voice in Hyperion's head and not the One True Voice. Zarda manages to free Doctor Spectrum by calling to the voice within the Power Prism, which takes control of Spectrum, and frees Hyperion.
Despite criticism by some Japanese critics that Kurosawa was "too Western", he was deeply influenced by Japanese culture as well, including the [[Kabuki]] and [[Noh]] theaters and the jidaigeki (period drama) genre of Japanese cinema.
Later the Squadron are then ordered to take down insurgents in Ilam Province in Iran, an operation called "Long Walk". Zarda goes on a killing rampage. After [[Blur (comics)|Stanley Stewart]] sees her killing three unarmed solders, calling them harmless, Zarda says "Harmless, yes, for that minute. Now they are harmless tomorrow". After seeing [[Inertia (Marvel Comics)|Inertia]] help a little girl find and kill four of the insurgents who raped and killed her mother and older sisters, Zarda said Inertia is now like her.
== His influence ==
Kurosawa's films had a huge influence on world cinema. Most notably, ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' was remade as the [[western movie|western]] ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', [[science fiction]] movie ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'', and Pixar's ''[[A Bug's Life]]''. It also inspired two [[Hindi films]], [[Ramesh Sippy]]'s ''[[Sholay]]'' and Rajkumar Santhoshi's ''[[China Gate]]'', with similar plots. The story has also inspired [[novel]]s, among them [[Stephen King]]'s fifth ''[[The Dark Tower (series)|Dark Tower]]'' novel, ''[[Wolves of Calla]]''.
Mark Milton gives a press conference of the "Long Walk" mission; at the interview, Hyperion meets [[Redstone (comics)|Redstone]] and a fight starts. Zarda steps into the fight after watching from her government residence. She flies to [[Los Angeles]], beating Redstone badly. Hyperion stops her from killing him to tell her to take Redstone's nuclear warhead out of Los Angeles up to the stratosphere so it won't detonate in the middle of downtown Los Angeles, which she does, possibly at the expense of her own life.
The [[Tamil language|Tamil]] film titled ''Virumandi'' directed by [[Kamal Hassan]] also uses Kurosawa's method of storytelling similar to that in ''Rashomon''. ''Rashomon'' was also remade by [[Martin Ritt]] in 1964 as ''The outrage''.
===Super-powers and abilities===
''[[Yojimbo (film)|Yojimbo]]'' was the basis for the [[Sergio Leone]] western ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', the [[Coen Brothers]] film ''[[Miller's Crossing]]'', and the [[Bruce Willis]] prohibition-era ''[[Last Man Standing (film)|Last Man Standing]]''.
In addition to the same physical abilities she shares with Hyperion, such as flight, super-strength, and enhanced durability, her powers also include some healing based abilities; Zarda's first appearance is as an extremely aged crone. After killing a man that sees her, she then appears as her current form of a youthful woman. Twice in the series, after noticing a gray hair or a scratch from a fight, she killed a human female, somehow absorbing her life energy (or some similar effect). Both times, her "imperfection" was removed. On the opposite end of the scale, she used a similar life force transfer to heal Hyperion when he received life threatening injuries.
In addition to all her powers, Zarda has demonstrated a love of carnage and killing, most likely linked to her ultimate (apparently) mission of conquering the human race.
''[[The Hidden Fortress]]'' had an influence on [[George Lucas]]'s earliest ''[[Star Wars]]'' film, especially in the characters of R2-D2 and C3PO.
==Additional notes==
''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]'' not only helped open Japanese cinema to the world but virtually entered the English language as a term for fractured, inconsistent narratives as well as influencing other works, including episodes of television series and many motion pictures.
*[[J. Michael Straczynski]] was a staff writer on [[She-Ra: Princess of Power]].
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== Collaboration ==
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During his most productive period, from the late 40s to the mid-60s, Kurosawa often worked with the same group of collaborators. [[Fumio Hayasaka]] composed music for seven of his films; notably ''Rashomon'', ''Ikiru'' and ''Seven Samurai''. Many of Kurosawa's scripts, including ''Throne of Blood'', ''Seven Samurai'' and ''Ran'' were co-written with [[Hideo Oguni]]. [[Yoshiro Muraki]] was Kurosawa's [[production designer]] or [[art director]] for most of his films after ''Stray Dog'' in 1949 and [[Asakazu Naki]] was his [[cinematographer]] on 11 films including ''Ikiru'', ''Seven Samurai'' and ''Ran''. Kurosawa also liked working with the same group of actors, especially [[Takashi Shimura]], [[Tatsuya Nakadai]] and [[Toshiro Mifune]]. His collaboration with the latter is one of the greatest director-actor combinations in cinema history. It began with 1948's ''[[Drunken Angel]]'' and ended with 1965's ''[[Red Beard]]''.
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== Later films ==
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[[Image:Kurosawa Ran.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Akira Kurosawa (center) gives stage directions to Tatsuya Nakadai (left) and Jinpachi Nezu (right) during the filming of ''[[Ran (film)|Ran]]''.]]
''[[Red Beard]]'' marked a turning point in Kurosawa's career in more ways than one. In addition to being his last film with Mifune, it was his last in black-and-white. It was also his last as a major director within the Japanese studio system making roughly a film a year. Kurosawa was signed to direct a Hollywood project, ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''; but [[20th Century Fox]] replaced him with [[Kinji Fukasaku]] before it was completed. His next few films were a lot harder to finance and were made at intervals of five years. The first, ''[[Dodesukaden]]'', about a group of poor people living around a rubbish dump, was not a success.
After an attempted suicide, Kurosawa went on to make several more films although arranging domestic financing was highly difficult despite his international reputation. ''[[Dersu Uzala]]'', made in the [[Soviet Union]] and set in Siberia in the early 20th century, was the only Kurosawa film made outside Japan and not in Japanese. It is about the friendship of a Russian explorer and a nomadic hunter. It won the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Oscar]] for Best Foreign Language Film. ''[[Kagemusha]]'', financed with the help of the director's most famous admirers, [[George Lucas]] and [[Francis Ford Coppola]], is the story of a man who is the double of a medieval Japanese lord and takes over his identity. Most important was ''[[Ran (film)|Ran]]'', Kurosawa's version of King Lear set in medieval Japan. It was the great project of Kurosawa's late career, and he spent a decade planning it and trying to obtain funding, which he was finally able to do with the help of the French producer [[Serge Silberman]]. The film was a phenomenal international success and is generally considered Kurosawa's last masterpiece.
Kurosawa made three more films during the 1990s which were more personal than his earlier works. ''[[Dreams (1990 film)|Dreams]]'' is a series of vignettes based on his own dreams. ''[[Rhapsody in August]]'' is about memories of the [[Nagasaki]] atom bomb and his final film: ''[[Madadayo]]'' is about a retired teacher and his former students. Kurosawa died in [[Setagaya, Tokyo]], at age 88.
==Trivia==
Kurosawa was a notoriously lavish gourmet, and spent huge quantities of money on film sets providing an uneatably large quantity and quality of delicacies, especially meat, for the cast and crew.
==Awards==
*1951- Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Rashomon
*1955- Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Seven Samurai
*1976- Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film for Dersu Uzala
*1980- Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival for Kagemusha
*1982- Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
*1984- Legion d'Honneur
*1990- Honorary Academy Award
==Filmography==
[[Image:derzuuzala.jpg|thumb|450px|[[Maxim Munzuk]] as Dersu Uzala (left) and [[Yury Solomin]] as [[Vladimir Arsenyev]] (right) in the [[1975]] film ''[[Dersu Uzala]]''.]]
*''[[Sanshiro Sugata]]'' (1943)
*''[[The Most Beautiful]]'' (1944)
*''[[Sanshiro Sugata Part II]]'' aka ''Judo Saga 2'' (1945)
*''[[The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail]]'' (1945)
*''[[No Regrets for Our Youth]]'' (1946)
*''[[One Wonderful Sunday]]'' (1946)
*''[[Drunken Angel]]'' (1948)
*''[[The Quiet Duel]]'' (1949)
*''[[Stray Dog (film)|Stray Dog]]'' (1949)
*''[[Scandal (1950 film)|Scandal]]'' (1950)
*''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]'' (1950)
*''[[Hakuchi (film)|The Idiot]]'' (1951)
*''[[Ikiru]]'' aka ''To Live'' (1952)
*''[[The Seven Samurai]]'' (1954)
*''[[Record of a Living Being]]'' aka ''I Live in Fear'' (1955)
*''[[Throne of Blood|The Throne of Blood]]'' aka ''Spider Web Castle'' (1957)
*''[[The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)|The Lower Depths]]'' (1957)
*''[[The Hidden Fortress]]'' (1958)
*''[[The Bad Sleep Well]]'' (1960)
*''[[Yojimbo (film)|Yojimbo]]'' aka ''The Bodyguard'' (1961)
*''[[Tsubaki Sanjūrō|Sanjuro]]'' (1962)
*''[[High and Low]]'' aka ''Heaven and Hell'' (1963)
*''[[Red Beard]]'' (1965)
*''[[Dodesukaden]]'' (1970)
*''[[Dersu Uzala (1975 film)|Dersu Uzala]]'' (1975)
*''[[Kagemusha]]'' aka ''Shadow Warrior'' (1980)
*''[[Ran (film)|Ran]]'' (1985)
*''[[Dreams (1990 film)|Dreams]]'' aka ''Akira Kurosawa's Dreams'' (1990)
*''[[Rhapsody in August]]'' (1991)
*''[[Madadayo]]'' aka ''Not Yet'' (1993)
==Further reading==
* Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto ''Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema'' ISBN 0822325195
* Akira Kurosawa. ''Something Like An Autobiography''. Vintage Books USA, 1983. ISBN 0394714393
* Stephen Prince. ''The Warrior's Camera''. Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 0691010463
* Donald Richie, Joan Mellen. ''The Films of Akira Kurosawa''. University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0520220374
* Stuart Galbraith IV. ''The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune''. Faber & Faber, 2002. ISBN 0571199828
== See also ==
* [[Cinema of Japan]]
==External links==
* {{imdb name|id=0000041|name=Akira Kurosawa}}
*[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/kurosawa.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
*[http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/kurosawa_akira.shtml Profile at Japan Zone]
*[http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKpage.html Akira Kurosawa Database]
*[http://www.boheme-magazine.net/july03/ikiru.html Bohème Magazine] ''Ikiru'': The Art of Living
*[http://www.quad4x.net/yojinbo/ Japanese Film - Kurosawa]
*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/kurosawa.html Great Performances: Kurosawa (PBS)]
*[http://kurosawa.vertebratesilence.com/ Akira Kurosawa News and Information]
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