Bolivia honors Kurosawa on the anniversary of his death

said the director of the non-profit and non-governmental foundation in an interview with Prensa Latina. Mila Marquez.

The director also told this news agency that at that time Kurosawa was showing the first film Ran (Chaos), an adaptation of the tragedy King Lear, directed by William Shakespeare.

“He was doing an advertising campaign, and I had the good fortune to meet him, which didn’t seem right to me because I like his movie Derzu Uzala (1975), produced by Mosfilm studios, from the Soviet Union, which won his second Academy Award in addition to Many other awards.

He commented: “This film inspired me to devote myself to filmmaking, and for this I am very grateful to this artist, who brilliantly describes in the film the harmony in which this woodcutter lives with nature in the forests of Siberia.”

He emphasized that Kurosawa is a huge figure in world cinema, “and I am happy to present him with this honor in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan and the United States, because it is a joint production that includes the two countries.”

He noted that for his realization and premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (1990) he received the support of American director Steven Spielberg and Warner Brothers.

Dreams is divided into eight sections with the main themes of childhood, spirituality, art, death, global catastrophes, and human error.

For her part, the cultural attache of the Japanese diplomatic mission in Bolivia, Reiko Yamada, expressed her satisfaction with the resumption of showing Japanese films in the cinema with this Kurosawa masterpiece, after the interruption caused by the Covid-19 epidemic since 2019. .

He said, “The Japan Foundation wants to display at least one work of our great master in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of his death, and we made this translated film in collaboration with Anthony Dean Tranchina, Cultural Attache at the US Embassy.”

Yamada means that Sueños’ introduction is a starting point, as a series of Japanese cinemas from September 4-11 will feature banana films at this time of night? Killer Diary.

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