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Jan 1, 2002 · Stuart Galbraith IV. 4.20. 267 ratings29 reviews. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune made sixteen feature films together, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo -- all undisputed masterworks of world cinema.
Jan 1, 2002 · Stuart Galbraith. Follow. The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune Paperback – January 1, 2002. by Stuart Galbraith (Author), Stuart Galbraith IV (Author) 4.5 36 ratings. See all formats and editions. The first -- and long overdue -- English-language biography of two of the world's great cinema figures.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Japan-based film historian who has written extensively about Japanese cinema over the years. He’s authored several books, including Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!, as well as the first English language biography on Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.
Referred by film historian Stuart Galbraith IV as a "quasi–sequel" to Frankenstein vs. Baragon, [1] the film was a Japanese-American co-production; it was the third and final collaboration between Toho Co., Ltd and Henry G. Saperstein.
Accompanying a global retrospective of Kurosawa's 30 features, Stuart Galbraith's book details the production and reception of their films together, and is filled with biographical and behind-the-scenes information about their tumultuous lives and stormy relationships, with the studios and with each other.
Apr 17, 2002 · Stuart Galbraith's The Emperor And The Wolf is made all the more welcome by a shortage of English-language books on Kurosawa, not to mention a near-complete absence of material on Mifune....
Sep 5, 2024 · Stuart Galbraith IV is the author of seven books, including The Emperor and the Wolf (Faber & Faber, 2002), the joint-biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune director Martin Scorsese hailed as “a must read.”. In December 2022, the screen rights to the book were renewed by a Los Angeles-based production company.
