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Account of My Hut, An, 27
Against the Imperialist War, 116
Akahata (Red Flag), 114
Akira Lippit, 31
Akutagawa Hiroshi, 209
Akutagawa Ryunosuke, 15, 21, 24, 29–30, 34–36, 40–42, 46, 95–96, 111–112, 153–169, 187, 196–198, 210, 213, 219–220
photo of, 153
Akutagawa Yasushi, 209
“alienation effect,” 215
All Quiet on the Western Front, 131
Alone across the Pacific, 106
American Occupation, 13, 47, 149, 178–179, 182–190, 204
Anna Karenina, 103
An’ya Koro (A Dark Night’s Passing), 164
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 109, 213
Arishima Ikuma, 105
Arishima Takeo, 103–105, 198
Arishima Yukimitsu, 105
Arnold, Gertrude, 125
Artsybashev, Mikhail, 71–72, 102, 134
Aru Onna, 103
Azuchi-Momoyama period, 226
B
Bachelard, Gaston, 54
Bad Sleep Well, The, 197
Barrymore, John, 93, 216
Battleflag, 146, 147
Battleship Potemkin, The, 89, 194
Baudelaire, Charles, 24, 42
benshi, 32–35, 42, 59, 76–98. See also Kurosawa Heigo
Bertolucci, Bernardo, 113
Bisson, Alexandre, 84
black-and-white composition, 27, 36–40, 56, 68, 78–80, 155, 166, 216–220
black markets, 11–14, 12, 167, 167–168, 185, 188, 216
Blood and Sand, 81, 125
Blue Angel, The, 131
Bolero, 15, 155, 204, 207–210, 213–217
Borzage, Frank, 109
Breaking Point, 72, 102, 134
Brecht, Bertolt, 215
Broken Blossoms, 16, 89
Brothers Karamazov, 72
Buñuel, Luis, 110
“Buried Ones, The,” 85
C
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The, 110–111, 125, 210
Carmen, 160
Certain Woman, A, 103, 198
Cézanne, Paul, 102, 105, 171
Chaplin, Charlie, 86, 109, 125, 160
Chekhov, Anton, 71
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 139
Chushingura, 129, 174
Chuto (The Thieves), 156, 158–161, 163, 166
City Lights, 131
Composition Class, 171
confessional elements, 53–74
Confucian principles, 7, 48, 172, 188, 221
Coppola, Francis Ford, 17
Courbet, Gustave, 116
Crime and Punishment, 72, 100, 195, 204
D
Danto, Arthur, 6
Das Kapital, 111
Dassin, Jules, 198
Dead Souls, 71
Debucourt, Jean, 125
Del Rio, Dolores, 93
Deleuze, Gilles, 19
DeMille, Cecil B., 109
Dietrich, Marlene, 91, 127, 216
Dodeskaden, 39, 199, 209
Doll House, The, 196
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1, 7, 19–20, 24–25, 42, 71, 100, 106–107, 145, 190, 195, 198–199, 204
Dovzhenko, Alexander, 194
Dower, John, 177
Doyle, Conan, 198
Dr. Mabuse, 198
Dreams, 102, 184
Dreyer, Carl, 110
Drunken Angel, 13, 31, 51, 61–62, 82, 131, 141–142, 150, 185–186, 189, 208, 216
screen capture, 30, 130, 141, 186
Dulac, Germaine, 110
E
Earth, 194
earthquake, 3, 6–7, 18, 18–23, 22, 25–29. See also Great Kanto Earthquake
Edo period, 44, 91, 129, 226
Edogawa Ramp, 198
Eisenstein, Sergei, 16, 110, 194
Epstein, Jean, 110
Equinox Flower, 106
Eugene Onegin, 86
F
Fall of the House of Usher, The, 125, 210
Farmers—A Study, 116, 147
Fellini, Federico, 15, 54–55, 168
filmography, 235–236
firebombings, 2, 7, 12, 19–23, 32, 102, 128, 141, 184, 189
Flaubert, Gustave, 24
Floating Clouds, 106
For a Farmers’ Cooperative, 116
For Labor Unions, 116
Ford, John, 84, 109, 175
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The, 89
Freud, Sigmund, 77
Fukushima nuclear disaster, 44, 184
G
Gama no abura, 41, 62, 65
Gance, Abel, 110, 145
García Márquez, Gabriel, 17
Gish, Lillian, 80, 111, 216
Gogol, Nikolai, 71
Golden Demon, 198
Golden Lion, 2, 9–10, 17, 33, 99
Goncourt, Edmond de, 24
Goncourt, Jules de, 24
Gorky, Maxim, 71, 98, 125
Great Kanto Earthquake, 3, 6–7, 18, 18–23, 22, 25–29, 67, 70–74, 77, 93, 100, 114, 128, 193, 198
Great Treason Incident, 35, 92
Griffith, D. W., 16, 48, 109, 144, 160, 175, 199, 220
H
Halm, Alfred, 86
Hammett, Dashiell, 198
Hara Setsuko, 106, 191, 195–197
Hard-edge wipe, example of, 38
Hart, William S., 84
Hashimoto Shinobu, 156, 187, 208
Hatano Akiko, 105
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 24
Hayasaka Fumio, 16, 207–210, 214
photo of, 209
Heian period, 10–11, 18–19, 63–65, 125, 225
Heisei period, 232
Higaki Gennosuke, 180
High and Low, 61, 72, 84, 123, 189, 197–198, 202, 211
screen capture, 61, 203
High, Peter, 175, 187
Higuchi Ichiyo, 40, 66
Hiroshima, 12, 19, 23, 31
Hisaita Eijiro, 146, 190
Hochi Shimbun, 137
“home drama,” 52, 81, 211
Honda Ishiro, 183
Horibei Yasubei, 128–129
Hou Hsiou Hsien, 17
Hurricane Hutch, 84
I
I Am a Cat, 173
Ibsen, Henrik, 24, 42, 196
Ichiban Utsukushiku (The Most Beautiful), 2
Ichikawa Kon, 106
Idiot, The, 1, 72, 100, 106–107, 159, 212
Ikimono no kiroku (Record of a Living Being), 183
Ikiru, 5, 7, 46, 50, 57, 74, 75, 77, 96, 112, 119–120, 131, 161, 185–186, 189–191, 196, 203, 208, 214–216, 219–220
screen capture, 58, 119
“In a Grove,” 155–156, 158, 160, 163, 165
In Praise of Millet, 103
Ingram, Rex, 109
Intolerance, 48
Iron Claw, The, 84
It Was Dawn, But . . . The Kurosawa Akira of My Youth, 62, 142
Itami Mansaku, 187
Ito Daisuke, 94
Ito Noe, 28, 113
J
Jannings, Emil, 127
Jasset, Victorin, 43
Jeanne d’Arc, 110
jiden, 40, 43–44, 62
Joyce, James, 205
Joyless Street, 198
K
Kaeriyama Norimasu, 90
Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior), 47, 101
Kamakura period, 225
Kamo no Chomei, 27
Kanjincho, 47
Karamazov, Ivan, 72
Katsudo Shoho, 84
Kawabata Yasunari, 96
Keaton, Buster, 109, 213
Keinosuke, Uekusa
photo of, 150
Kid, The, 125, 160
King Lear, 20, 46
Kinoshita Keinosuke, 61
Kinugasa Teinosuke, 94, 96
Kobayashi Takiji, 192, 195
Kobo, Abe, 10
Kokoro, 72
Konjaku Monogatari (Tales of Times Now Past), 160
Konoe Fumimaro, 191
Kotobuki Hajime, 137
Kotoku Shusui, 35, 113
Kriemhild’s Revenge, 125
Kropotkin, Peter, 105
Kunikida Doppo, 40, 66
Kurosawa Akira
autobiography of, 3, 40–44, 55, 62, 77, 91, 139, 144
awards for, 2, 9–10, 17, 33, 99
birth of, 4, 22, 35
career of, 1–4, 77–82, 145–182, 184–224
death of, 3, 176
early years of, 22–31, 34, 35–44, 49–51, 56–74, 100–103, 142–145
illness of, 123–124
memoir of, 29, 36–37, 40–43, 48–49, 56–57, 67, 76–77, 90, 102, 108–110, 114, 126, 132, 210–212, 219
photos of, 1, 34, 209
storytelling by, 4–7, 19–20, 44, 53–54, 81, 90, 121–122, 127–130, 210–213
underground life of, 117, 122–124, 194–195
Kurosawa Haruyo, 23
Kurosawa Heigo. See also Suda Teimei
as benshi, 32–35, 42, 59, 76, 76–98, 108–111, 116, 120–128, 137, 139–140, 172, 216
career of, 39, 48–50, 82–89, 108–109, 145–152, 161, 165–166, 170–171, 210–211
death of, 41–42, 74, 120–121, 125–129, 133–135, 172, 180, 188, 210–212
early years of, 27–31, 34, 58–63, 67–74
photos of, 34, 76
stage name of, 87–89, 96, 101, 121–127, 134–139, 146–147
Kurosawa Isamu, 44–48, 51, 69–71
Kurosawa Momoyo, 43, 67–68
Kurosawa Shima, 43, 48–49, 52, 69, 134–135
Kurutta Ichipeiji, 94–95
Kyo Machiko, 214
L
La Roue, 110, 145
labyrinths, 99–118, 135
Lady Han, 90
Lang, Fritz, 109, 198, 199
Last Emperor, The, 113
Last Laugh, The, 16, 89
Late Autumn, 106
Leonardo, 145
Lewis, Monk, 198
Life of a Stupid Man, The, 24, 29, 42, 113, 161, 163, 165
Lloyd, Frank, 84
Lloyd, Harold, 109, 213
Lower Depths, 98, 131
screen capture, 97
Lubitsch, Ernst, 109
M
M, 199
MacArthur, Douglas, 13, 187, 205
Macbeth, 20, 216
Madame X, 84–85
Makino Masahiro, 94
Maruzen Bookstore
photo of, 22
Marx, Karl, 111
Master Builder, The, 42
Matsui Sumako, 196
Maupassant, Guy de, 24
McBain, Ed, 198
Meeting at the Construction Site, 114–116, 115, 147
Meiji period, 24, 40–48, 55–57, 72, 83, 91, 162–163, 176–178, 199, 226–228
Men Who Tread on Tiger’s Tails, 47, 106
Mencius, 7, 221
Michelangelo, 145
Midnight Man, The, 84
Mifune Toshiro, 51, 61–62, 106, 150, 205, 214
Mishima Yukio, 51, 111, 208
Mitry, Jean, 16
Miyagawa Kazuo, 14–15, 78, 214
Miyamoto Musashi, 176
Mizoguchi Kenji, 2, 39, 42, 52, 73, 96, 106, 214
Mori Masayuki, 105–106, 214
Morimura Ichizaemon, 57
Morocco, 108, 131
Most Beautiful, The, 2, 44, 178
Movie Times, 84, 86
Münsterberg, Hugo, 199
Murakami Haruki, 162
Murasaki Shikibu, 63
Murata Minoru, 93
Murayama Tomoyoshi, 114
Murder on Hill D, The, 198
Murnau, F. W., 16, 109, 125
Muromachi period, 225–226
musical score, 16, 207–209, 214
N
Nagasaki, 12, 19
Nakamura Imako, 137, 180
Nakamura Kusatao, 124
Nakano Shigeharu, 146
Naked City, The, 198
Naruse Mikio, 46, 106, 173
Natsume Soseki, 40, 42, 66, 72, 163, 177–178
Niblo, Fred, 109
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 24, 42
Nikutai no mon (Gate of Flesh), 188–189
Ninjo eiga baka (Sentimental Movie Fool), 137
No Regrets for Our Youth, 112, 117, 146, 149, 186, 190–197, 216
Noh drama, 20, 48, 73, 90, 200, 205–207, 213–216
Noma Hiroshi, 187
Norainu, 37. See also Stray Dog
Nosferatu, 125, 210
nuclear disaster, 44, 184
nuclear strikes, 12, 19, 23, 31, 183
O
Oguni Hideo, 208
Oily Sweat of an Anxious Toad, The, 41
Okamoto Toki, 114, 117
On the Eve, 196
One Wonderful Sunday, 46, 61, 149
Orphans of the Storm, 81, 160
Oshima Nagisa, 81
Osugi Sakae, 28, 36, 113, 195
Ototo, 106
Ozaki Hotsumi, 191
Ozaki Koyo, 198
Ozu Yasujiro, 2, 39, 42, 51–52, 81, 96, 100, 106, 166, 176–177, 214
P
Pabst, G. W., 110, 198
Page of Madness, A, 94–95
screen capture, 95
Pick, Lupu, 110
Pickford, Mary, 96
Pirandello, Luigi, 205
Poirier, Léon, 110
Princess Yang Kuei-fei, 106
Proletarian Arts, 146
Psychology and Crime, 199
Pudovkin, V. I., 110
Pushkin, Alexander, 86, 145
R
rakugo storytellers, 41, 127–128
Ran, 20, 46, 199
Rashomon
awards for, 2, 9–10, 17, 33, 99
beginning of, 7, 10–15, 19, 32, 53–55, 79, 119–120, 153–154, 189, 212–213, 220, 223
clearings in, 16, 155, 166, 216–217
complexity of, 3–8, 55, 62, 135–141
confessional elements in, 53–74
ending of, 7–8, 54, 136, 219–224, 221, 223, 224
entanglements in, 216–217
flashback scenes in, 55, 185
gate in, 8–21, 53–54, 79, 155, 208, 212
inspiration for, 169, 193–194, 205
musical score for, 16, 207–209, 214
period details in, 79–81, 155–156
plotting, 77–81, 85, 153–155
primal scenes in, 22–33
rain in, 7, 10, 14, 17–19, 53, 120, 222–223
silences in, 119–120
screen capture, 9, 15, 49, 53, 207, 217, 218, 219, 222, 223, 224
truth and, 3–4, 55, 121–122, 135–142, 205–206
witnesses in, 8, 15–17, 53–55, 81, 121–122, 153–156, 165, 197–199, 204–215, 220–224
“Rashomon effect,” 3
“Rashomon” (short story), 15, 24, 34–35, 155, 160, 163, 165, 210, 219
Ravel, Maurice, 15–16, 207, 209
Ray, Man, 110
Ray, Satyajit, 17
rebirth, 5, 74, 98, 186, 207, 223–224
Record of a Living Being, 183, 208–209, 216
Red Beard, 39, 51, 132
Rendezvous, The, 67
Renoir, Jean, 110
requiem, 186, 207, 214–220
Rey Chow, 36
Ross, Alex, 15
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 77
S
Sakaguchi Ango, 188–191
Sakamoto Ryuichi, 113
Sanshiro Sugata, 26, 39, 41, 64, 106, 119, 176–180
screen capture, 170, 179, 181
Santo Kyoden, 129
Satomi Ton, 105
Scorsese, Martin, 17, 103
Sei Shonagon, 63
self-chronicle, 40–44, 62
Senki (Battleflag), 146, 147
Seven Samurai, 5, 7, 19, 47, 50, 77, 101, 105, 119, 161–163, 168, 186, 203, 208–209, 216, 219–220
“seven samurai,” 3, 32, 67
Shaberu (Jabberings), 190
Shakespeare, William, 20
Shanghai Express, 127, 131
Shaw, George Bernard, 24
Shiga Naoya, 164
Shikitei Samba, 129
Shimamura Hogetsu, 196
Shimura Takashi, 60
Shirakaba (White Birch), 104
Shizuoka Minyu Shimbun, 136
Showa period, 230–232
silences, 119–140, 176, 208–209
silent film era, 6, 16–18, 78–79, 94, 110–112, 120, 128, 180
Simenon, Georges, 198
Six Characters in Search of an Author, 205
Sjöström, Victor, 110
slow motion effects, 170, 178–182
Something Like an Autobiography, 41
Sous les Toits de Paris, 131
Sower, The, 113
Spielberg, Steven, 17
Spinning Gears, 161, 165
Stramigioli, Guilliana, 9
Stray Dog, 13, 37–45, 65, 95–96, 123, 131, 158–159, 168, 172, 187–189, 197–198, 200–202, 211, 216
screen capture: 130, 167, 200, 201
Strike, 194
Strindberg, August, 24, 42
Suda Teimei, 87–89, 96, 101, 121–127, 134–139, 146–147. See also Kurosawa Heigo
Suzuki Sijun, 188–189
T
Tachikawa Seiji, 60
Taigyaku Jiken, 35
Taisho period, 57, 145, 162–163, 196, 228–230
Taishokan movie theatre
photo of, 88
Takemitsu Toru, 199
Tale of the Heike, The, 27, 45–47, 73, 158–159
Tamura Taijiro, 188–189
Tanemakuhito (The Sower), 104
Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, 84, 95–96
“technologized visuality,” 36
Thieves, The, 156, 158–161, 163, 166
Threepenny Opera, The, 131, 215
Throne of Blood, 20, 47, 56, 101, 168, 216
screen capture, 56, 99
Tojo Hideki, 190
Tokugawa Musei, 82, 146–147, 171
Tokugawa period, 44, 226
Tokyo
blackmarket, photo of, 12
earthquake, photo of, 18
fire bombing, photo of, 18
Tokyo 1923, 3
Tokyo Story, 214
Tokyo Trials, 203–205
Tolstoy, Leo, 24, 71, 103
Tomita Tsuneo, 176
Trial, The
screen capture, 183
trials, 35, 183, 187, 190–197, 203–205
truth, facing, 121–122, 135–140
truth, questioning, 3–4, 55, 142, 205–206
Turgenev, Ivan, 66–67, 71, 145, 196
U
Uchimura Kanzo, 104
Uekusa Keinosuke, 61–65, 82, 141–152, 150, 171
Ugetsu, 96, 106, 214
Uma (The Horse), 101, 176
Underworld, 198
Utrillo, Maurice, 171
V
Vagabond, 86
Valentino, Rudolph, 80, 111, 121, 125, 216
van Gogh, Vincent, 102–103, 110, 161, 163, 171
Venice International Film Festival, 2, 9–10, 17, 33, 99
Verlaine, Paul, 24
Vidor, King, 109
von Sternberg, Josef, 108, 109, 198
von Stroheim, Erich, 109
W
War Crimes Trials, 187
Weill, Kurt, 215
Wellman, William, 109
Wenders, Wim, 81, 211
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, 106
Wiene, Robert, 109, 110, 125
Wife! Be Like a Rose!, 173
witnesses, 119–140
Wong, Anna May, 127
Y
“Yabu no naka” (In a Grove), 155–156, 158, 160, 163, 165
Yaguchi Yoko, 2
yakuza, 12–13, 150–151, 188
Yamamoto Kajiro, 171, 173–174
Yamanaka Sadao, 51
Yamano Ichiro, 87, 120–121, 137–138
yamiichi, 11–14, 12. See also black markets
Yoshikawa Eiji, 176
Z
Zeami Motokiyo, 90
Zigomar, 43, 92