Leonard Schrader
Aaron Gerow
aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Tue Nov 7 20:34:45 EST 2006
I learned about this from the Japanese newspapers, but Leonard Schrader
died on the 2nd of heart failure after a long battle with cancer. He
was 62. The NY Times obit is posted here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/obituaries/07schrader.html
From a Japanese film perspective, Schrader was one of the few
foreigners to leave a significant mark on the Japanese cinema industry.
With a long connection to Japan, he helped pen the screenplays for
Hasegawa Kazuhiko's Taiyo o nusunda otoko and Yamada Yoji's Otoko wa
tsurai yo: Torajiro haru no yume, as well as that for Mishima, a film
directed by his brother Paul Schrader. He is also credited for the
original stories for Taiyo o nusunda otoko, Somai Shinji's Shonben
Rider, and Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza. He was also nominated for an
Academy Award for the screenplay for Kiss of the Spider Woman and
headed the screenwriting program at the American Film Institute.
Aaron Gerow
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Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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