num_pages: 848
description: Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema. The Emperor and the Wolf is an in-depth look at these two great artists and their legacy that brims with behind-the-scenes details, many never before known, about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships with the studios and with one another. More than just a biography, though, The Emperor and the Wolf is also an impromptu history of Japanese cinema -- its development, filmmakers, and performers -- and a provocative look at postwar American and Japanese culture and the different lenses through which two great societies viewed each other.
language: English
title: The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
titlecomplete: The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
characters: Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa
genres: Biography, Film, Japanese Literature, Media Tie In, Reference, Nonfiction, Japan, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 258
publisher: Faber & Faber