Kurosawa's final manuscript to reach the screen: report

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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:05:21 PST
From: AFP <C-afp at clari.net>
Newsgroups: clari.world.asia.japan, clari.world.asia+oceania
Subject: Kurosawa's final manuscript to reach the screen: report

  	  				 
   TOKYO, Nov 7 (AFP) - A manuscript written by late renowned film  
director Akira Kurosawa will be taken to the screen next year in 
Japan, the Asahi Shimbun said Saturday. 
   Former staff of the legendary Japanese director will start  
filming early next year "Rain Stops," which is based on fiction by 
Japanese novelist Shugoro Yamanoto, the daily said. 
   The film features a strong but shy "samurai" warrior struggling  
for promotion with help of his devoted wife. 
   Kurosawa, the perfectionist director of films such as "The Seven  
Samurai" (1954), "To Live" (1952) and "Rashomon" (1951), died of a 
stroke at home in Tokyo on September 6, aged 88. 
   The new film is expected to premier in September to commemorate  
the first anniversary of his death.