Arena Kurosawa : Part Two

Kurosawa : Part Two

Part two of the documentary profiling influential Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, discussing arguably his finest film : Seven Samurai : and his disastrous Hollywood collaboration on Tora! Tora! Tora! which led to a suicide attempt in the early 1970s. His friendship with leading actor Toshiro Mifune also comes under scrutiny, along with their eventual enmity and Kurosawa's subsequent isolation from society. Fortunately, salvation was at hand with financing for a new movie : courtesy of Hollywood heavyweights Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. With contributions from Clint Eastwood, James Coburn and Kurosawa's children