num_pages: 209
description: The distinguished filmmaker chronicles his life from his birth in 1910 to the worldwide success in 1950 of his film Rashomon and provides a provocative account of the Japanese film industry.
language: English
title: Something Like an Autobiography
titlecomplete: Something Like an Autobiography
characters: Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Shimura
genres: Art, Biography, Film, Japanese Literature, Media Tie In, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Japan, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 3954
places: Japan
publisher: Vintage Books