Comments on: New Book — Akira Kurosawa: Interviews

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Mon, 21 May 2007 21:00:00 +0000

[...] of the table of contents to be included in the Akira Kurosawa: Interviews book that I wrote about yesterday. They also confirmed the 2000 copy print run, of which 1750 will be paperbacks (priced $20) and 250 [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:36:14 +0000

Should be something to check out… I hope.
Yes, now only if we could all read the “Papa” book. *sigh*

By: Vili Maunula

Vili Maunula — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:45:40 +0000

Oh yes, and the hard cover edition is a bit pricey indeed.

Coming personally from the academic world, I didn’t actually notice that before you mentioned it, as university press hard covers tend to cost quite a lot of money. I’m not exactly sure why, though, but it’s really a problem when you need a certain book that is only available as a $200 hardback edition. Let’s then be happy that there is the soft cover one as well!

By: Vili Maunula

Vili Maunula — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:19:45 +0000

Well, I personally wouldn’t pre-order it either, as it’s still more than half a year until it comes out.

But I’m nevertheless quite looking forward to getting the book, to be honest. Over two hundred pages of interviews can’t be that bad, and I am secretly hoping that they might print with it some of Kurosawa’s essays as well (there’s a Japanese book that collected his interviews, essays and other stuff). Even if they don’t, I’m sure there’ll be some interesting stuff in there.

Now we just need someone to do an English translation of Kazuko Kurosawa’s “Papa, Kurosawa”.

And now that we are on the subject of books, I am currently (slowly) reading Yoshimoto’s “Kurosawa - Film Studies and Japanese Cinema”, and I must say that I really like it a lot.

By: Jeremy Quintanilla

Jeremy Quintanilla — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:33:12 +0000

The hardcover is $37 more, isn’t that well above normal cost for a hardcover edition. I am used to seeing only $5-10 extra for the hardcover.

I’ll wait until it comes out and there is more information, I do think 2000 copies should be enough to safely order on the day it comes out, without fear of backorder. If its just a bunch of collected interviews, I cant say am too interested, but I’ll still pick it up when it comes out.

Thanks for the info Vili