Synopsis
Meeting someone fills the heart for anyone who has ardently respected that one. But, it is not always that easy. Alex Cox, director, well known for < Seed and Nancy >, wanted to produce a documentary on Kurosawa Akira sine he believed that the was able to meet with him on the pretext of the production. Ironically, he wasn’t able to finish the project until his maestro passed away. Is it ture that adoration of a loyalist becomes more and more fervent in front of the majestic appearance of an emperor? This film is a short critical biography about Kurosawa, a great master of film directors in Japan, who was called an ‘Emperor in the Japanese film world’. When we consider the scope of the impact he had on filmdom in the world, it is not surprising to know that eminent directors like Francis Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Woo. Criticixed in their own ways in Kurosawa and his films. < Kurosawa Akira: The Last Emperor > is a film arousing our interest in a film director and we can even feel somewhat tantalized in a short running time of 50 minutes. (Hong Sung-Nam)