When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor it looked to Akira Kurosawa a a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname the Emperor a to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks after he began shooting the film in December 1968 Kurosawa was summarily dismissed and expelled from the studio. The tabloids trumpeted scandal: Kurosawa had himself gone mad; his associates had betrayed him; Hollywood was engaged in a conspiracy.THNow for the first time the truth behind the downfall and humiliation of one of cinema's greatest perfectionists is revealed in All the Emperor's Men. Journalist Hiroshi Tasogawa probes the most sensitive questions about Kurosawa's thwarted ambition and the demons that drove him. His is a tale of a great clash of personalities of differences in the ways of making movies and ultimately of a clash between Japanese and American cultures.

Book Information
ISBN 9781557838506
Author Hiroshi Tasogawa
Format Hardback
Page Count 337
Imprint Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Weight(grams) 671g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm * 26mm