{"product_id":"long-take","title":"Long Take","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTranslated by Anne McKnight\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. “It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies,” he said. “In other words, take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero.” The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, Something like an Autobiography, ended with Rashomon, the film that launched him on the world’s stage in 1950.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLong Take, first published in Japan shortly after Kurosawa’s death in 1998, at last tells the story of the rest of his life. By turns intimate, provocative, and revealing, Long Take creates a dynamic portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings; his conversations with writer Inoue Hisashi and director Yamada Yoji; and essays by his daughter and colleague Kurosawa Kazuko, who details the collaborative history of the “Kurosawa crew.” It features a wealth of industry lore, cultural reference points, inside jokes with other filmmakers and writers, and backstories for his own productions, from the earliest to the last. Of particular interest to all cinephiles is an annotated list of Kurosawa’s 100 favorite films.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA survey of Kurosawa’s prodigious career, this book situates the visionary in the media milieu of his youth, in the literature and performing arts of twentieth-century Japan and Hollywood, and among the myriad films he loved, admired, and referenced, including Japanese silent film and comedy as well as productions from India, Iran, and Soviet-era Russia. Now available to English readers for the first time, Long Take offers a lasting picture of the peerless filmmaker in his element.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1517903297\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781517903299\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akira Kurosawa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53239318774026,"sku":null,"price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-20at15.55.30.png?v=1781963746","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/long-take","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}