2001) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create (Toho Masterworks, 2002) Akira Kurosawa: The Epic and the Intimate (2010) Kurosawa's Way (Catherine Cadou, 2011) Notes References Sources Further reading Buchanan, Judith (2005). Shakespeare on Film. Pearson Longman. . Burch, Nöel (1979). To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema. University of California Press. . Cowie, Peter (2010). Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema. Rizzoli Publications. . Davies, Anthony (1990). Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptions of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa. Cambridge University Press. . Desser, David (1983). The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (Studies in Cinema No. 23). UMI Research Press. . Leonard, Kendra Preston (2009). Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations. Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press. . Sorensen, Lars-Martin (2009). Censorship of Japanese Films During the U.S. Occupation of Japan: The Cases of Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa. Edwin Mellen Press. . Wild, Peter. (2014) Akira Kurosawa'' Reaktion Books External links Akira Kurosawa at The Criterion Collection Akira Kurosawa: News, Information and Discussion Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database Akira Kurosawa at Japanese celebrity's grave guide Several trailers Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film 1910 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Japanese writers 20th-century male writers Academy Honorary Award recipients Akira Kurosawa Award winners Best Director BAFTA Award winners César Award winners David di Donatello winners Directors Guild of America Award winners Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners Directors of Palme d'Or winners Directors of Golden Lion winners Filmmakers who won the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Japanese film directors Japanese film editors Japanese film producers Japanese male writers Japanese screenwriters Kyoto laureates in Arts and Philosophy Recipients of the Legion of Honour Male screenwriters People from Shinagawa People of the Empire of Japan People's Honour Award winners Persons of Cultural Merit Propaganda film directors Ramon Magsaysay Award winners Recipients of the Order of Culture Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale Samurai film directors Silver Bear for Best Director recipients Writers from Tokyo Yakuza film directors