A college student records behind-the-scenes of Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, only for the footage to be confiscated—until he reunites with it three decades later.
Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades later. Now, with the rediscovered clips and Mitsuhiko’s own recollections, the film pieces together an intimate portrait of cinema’s “Emperor,” revealing how a young cinephile’s passion helped preserve invaluable fragments of film history. In the course of unearthing lost footage, Kawamura’s life takes an ironic course; he loved movies so much that his life became a movie.
Richard Rowland
Director
天国と地獄84%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
千年女優79%
Room 23761%
Sleep, My Love63%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl72%
Val71%
V/H/S/9461%
Maria by Callas73%
Atlantis Rising61%
花と蛇 ZERO60%
野良犬75%
Bruce Lee, the Legend79%
Wick Is Pain74%
狂った一頁73%
The Mask of Dimitrios70%
In Search of Darkness76%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Love, Antosha74%
Fallen Angel65%
