Spirit of Kurosawa lives on in Seven Samurai village

[Don Brown]

>From today's Mainichi Daily News:

The ancient villages that appeared in the film classics "Seven Samurai," 
"Rashomon" and "Yojinbo" by the late Akira Kurosawa will be rebuilt at a 
theme park in honor of the noted director.

Officials at Kurosawa Production said Monday that they plan to open both 
the Kurosawa Village in Akita Prefecture and Akira Kurosawa Cinema City in 
Tokyo's Adachi-ku in the spring of 2006.

The outdoor sets of Seven Samurai, Yojinbo and Rashomon, all of which 
feature the late Toshiro Mifune, will be re-constructed in the Kurosawa 
Village.

The Kurosawa Cinema City will regularly screen the director's works and 
hold lectures for those who want to study filmmaking. Former staff members 
who worked under Kurosawa will serve as lecturers.

"I want people who worked on the Kurosawa movies to hand down their 
movie-making techniques while they are alive to younger generations," said 
the director's son Hisao Kurosawa, president of Kurosawa Production. 
(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Feb. 16, 2004)
 
Don Brown

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