Kurosawa and Michael Powell

[Dolores Martinez]

Dear colleagues,
I am rewriting a paper on Ikiru and was pondering the opening narrator (an
oddity in the film as Yoshimoto comments), and began to think that it
recalled Powell's and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death, which I
seem to recall, begins with a narrator who also never reoccurs.  This led
to Galbraith, who notes that the two men met briefly in 1945 -  leading me
to wonder whether or not Kurosawa would have followed Powell's career and
so would have been familiar with his 1946 film.  In fact, it could be
argued that the theme of Ikiru is about a matter of life and death and so
my rewriting seems about to hare off in a new direction.  I wondered,
however, if any of you knew something about any further Kurosawa/Powell
encounters or whether Kurosawa ever commented on the Englishman's films?
Thanks, Lola
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