Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa

by Teruyo Nogami

Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. A witness to its filming--and its near destruction in a fire--over the next fifty years she worked on all the master's films--Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, and Dreams. No one was more closely involved in Kurosawa's productions, and in this memoir, charmingly illustrated with her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933330090
• ISBN13: 9781933330099
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 7.8"