By Three unproduced screenplays by Akira Kurosawa were found last Thursday in a large archive of his work. All written between the 1940s and 1950s. According to our sister site Japanator, there is speculation that the three scripts may be put into production. The first script, entitled Kanokemaru no Hitobito, is about a ship’s crew being caught in a massive sea storm and was originally supposed to star Toshiro “Badass†Mifune before production halted. The second, Asu wo Tsukuru Hitobito , and the untitled third have no plot details, although the third is actually a radio play that was actually broadcast in 1942.
I think making a Kurosawa movie without Akira Kurosawa behind the camera would be something close to sacrilege. That said, it’s always interesting to see previously-unseen work from a master artist in any medium, so I can’t imagine, if these do wind up getting made, that I won’t see them.
This also reminds me of a really bad script I read as an intern for a major film company a couple years ago. It was a modern retelling of Seven Samuraiabout mercenaries in Burma. I think I begged someone to burn the script and have the…
Three unproduced screenplays by Akira Kurosawa were found last Thursday in a large archive of his work. All written between the 1940s and 1950s. According to our sister site Japanator, there is speculation that the three scripts may be put into production. The first script, entitled Kanokemaru no Hitobito, is about a ship’s crew being caught in a massive sea storm and was originally supposed to star Toshiro “Badass” Mifune before production halted. The second, Asu wo Tsukuru Hitobito , and the untitled third have no plot details, although the third is actually a radio play that was actually broadcast in 1942.
I think making a Kurosawa movie without Akira Kurosawa behind the camera would be something close to sacrilege. That said, it’s always interesting to see previously-unseen work from a master artist in any medium, so I can’t imagine, if these do wind up getting made, that I won’t see them.
This also reminds me of a really bad script I read as an intern for a major film company a couple years ago. It was a modern retelling of Seven Samurai about mercenaries in Burma. I think I begged someone to burn the script and have the writers killed.
[Via Japanator]