Research File

So the first thing that actually inspired me too look into Akira Kurosawa was the Every Frame a
Painting video “Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement” which I used to start the base of my
research. Then I read “Kurosawa, Film Studies and Japanese Cinema” by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto which
gave me greater insight into Kurosawa as a director. Then after visiting the University of Cumbria
library I borrowed “Seven Samurai”, “Stray Dog”, “Throne of Blood” and “Yojimbo”, I watched them
all with 36 hours, they were great. I also looked at a variety of articles regarding Kurosawa:

 Akira Kurosawa Biography (1910–1998), (APR 2, 2014) By Biography.com Editors

 Kurosawa Akira | Biography & Films | Britannica, (March 9,2020) By Tadao Sato

 "Akira Kurosawa, film director is dead at age 88" (Sept. 7, 1998) By Rick Lyman

 Tadao Sato (Mar 27, 2017) Kurosawa Akira Japanese film director,

These are a variety of articles, all about Kurosawa but each of them looks at him in a different way.
The first one looks at him mostly just through his life from his youth, mid life and elderly years. The
second one looks more into his iconic and less iconic films in a lot of detail and mentions a lot about
both the Japanese and non-Japanese reception of them, the third one talks about his work before
his untimely death in 1998 and the fourth looks more at who he inspired (e.g. George Lucas, Bong
Joon Ho etc)

I also conducted an interview with my film tutor Paddy Sweeney, who I believed had some
experience with Kurosawa and his films, He gave an in depth description on how he thought
Kurosawa’s films worked and was how they were conceived as a style. He also talked about how he
thought Kurosawa effected the rest of the film world.