8.2 /10 1 Votes
4.2/5 Mubi Produced by Michiko Yoshitake Edited by Cedric Defert Director Catherine Cadou Producer Michiko Yoshitake | 7.8/10 IMDb Directed by Catherine Cadou Written by Catherine Cadou Initial release 13 May 2011 Screenplay Catherine Cadou Narrated by Catherine Cadou | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cinematography Alexis Kavyrchine
Simon Beaufils
Tsuneo Azuma
Tempei Iwakiri
Yoshihiro Ikeuchi Release date 2011 (2011) (Cannes Film Festival) Cast Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Hayao Miyazaki, Theo Angelopoulos Similar The Bet, The Guilt of Janet Ames, The Very Thought of You, Löwenzahn, Polnische Ostern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kurosawa's Way (French: Kurosawa, la voie) is a 2011 French documentary directed and written by Catherine Cadou. The film features 11 major filmmakers from Asia, America and Europe as they discuss how the films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa influenced them.
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Sypnopsis
Kurosawa's Way is a documentary that is intercut with Catherine Cadou's narration on her own experiences with Kurosawa, and interviews with various directors and archival photographs. The directors interviews focus on both philosophical and technical observations of Kurosawa's films.
Interviewees
Release
The film was shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival. The documentary was released on the Blu ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection as part of their release of Kurosawa's film Dreams.
Reception
Variety praised the film, referring to it as "Meticulously crafted" and "engrossing".