With a career stretching from the chaos of war-torn Japan to the current
power and prosperity of his country, the great Japanese film director Akira
Kurosawa has been intrnationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema.
Rashomon helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema, and Seven
Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abroad.
Providing a new and comprehensive look at this master film maker,
The Warrior's Camera probes the complex visual structure of Kurosawa's work.
The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on fi l m a course of
national development for postwar Japan,and it traces the ways that he tied
his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms. The
author a nalyze Kurosawa's entire career and places the films in context by
drawing on the director's autobiography a fascinating work that presents
Kurosawa as a Kurosawa character and the story of his life as the kind of
spi ritual odyssey wi tnessed so often in his films. After examining the
development of Kurosawa's visual style in his early work, The Warrior's
Camera explains how he used this style in subsequent films to forge
a political y committed model of film making . It then demonstrates how
the col l aps of Kuro awa's efforts to participate as a film maker in the
tasks of social reconstruction led to the very different cinematic style
evident in his most recent films, works of pessimism that view the world
as reistant to change.

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