[KineJapan] Did Kurosawa attend Venice film festival?

[Dolores Martinez]

David Desser is right: no. I think all those photos of a bespectacled
Japanese man holding the golden lion next to Sophia Loren is a producer.
Definitely not Kurosawa.
Lola

On Friday, 15 April 2022, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> And the other thing is that the film only played in Japanese with italian
> subtitles, with no english-friendly version, hence the British critics at
> the time in their write ups of the festival claimed the film was "hard to
> follow"!
>
>
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> Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed
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> Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films
> <https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>
> .
> The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial
> Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing
> <http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",
> Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times*
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>
> .
> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter*
> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>
> .
> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian*
> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>
> .
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of
> Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Sent:* 12 April 2022 14:12
> *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Cc:* Desser, David M <desser at illinois.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [KineJapan] Did Kurosawa attend Venice film festival?
>
> No.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 12, 2022, at 10:05 AM, Eija Niskanen via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> Just checking a fact: did Kurosawa Akira actually attend Venice with
> Rashomon, meaning was he personally present at the festival?
>
> Eija Niskanen
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