Akira Kurosawa's career spanned nearly 60 years. He’s best known for his samurai epics, such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, (which inspired The Magnificent Seven and Last Man Standing), Hidden Fortress (which inspired Star Wars), Yojimbo (which inspired A Fist Full of Dollars, among others), Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran (which reworks King Lear).
The following video is organised into 10 chapters. This list shows the subjects Kurosawa discusses and the time each section commences.
Chapter 1: Background (0:00)
Chapter 2: Screenplays (13:50)
Chapter 3: Storyboards (19:19)
Chapter 4: Filming (24:32)
Chapter 5: Lighting (31:16)
Chapter 6: Art Direction (37:21)
Chapter 7: Costumes (43:17)
Chapter 8: Editing (47:30)
Chapter 9: Music (54:57)
Chapter 10: Directing (63:09)
First posted: 11 January 2014
Ron Howard was a child actor (Dennis the Menace, The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days), who has appeared in almost eighty TV shows and movies. Then his hair fell out, so he made the jump to feature film directing (Grand Theft Auto, Cocoon, Willow, Apollo 13, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, Rush, etc.).
He was interviewed by BAFTA recently, where he talked about his experiences as a filmmaker.
You know directors, some of them — some of us are sweethearts, some of
us are jerks, some of us are talkative, some are very quiet. None of
that really matters very much — although, you know, I always think it’s
nice to be decent to people, but that’s me. It’s not imperative. The big
thing is taste — taste and judgement. That’s what it’s all about.
