Kurosawa - The Frog Oil Seller

Akira Kurosawa has a unique place among the great filmmakers of the 20th century with his films 'Rasomon', 'Seven Samurai', 'Ran', 'Kagemusa' and 'Dreams' and is one of those rare directors who always turns his camera towards the 'great adventure of humanity'. In this book, which he describes as 'something like an autobiography', he describes the main turning points of his life, his relationship with his older brother who introduced him to the magical universe of cinema, what he learned from Yamomoto, whom he considers his first master, and the liquid that the frog secretes in astonishment when it is placed in a mirror-covered box while watching its own image from different angles, for 3,721 days. He describes his cinema, which he describes as having the consistency of a 'wonderful potion' obtained by mixing it with a willow branch and boiling it, as if it were a fairy tale...
The story of a director who grew up in a country where a nation realized that it would lose the Second World War and was preparing for the 'Honourable Death of One Hundred Millions' with its collective protest, and who produced masterpieces of humanism such as 'Rhapsody in August'...



Number of Pages: 240

Year of Printing: 2006


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Agora Library

First Print Year: 2006

Number of Pages: 240

Language Turkish