A review by yukbon
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith

5.0

A combination biography/filmography of both Kurosawa and Mifune. It's a huge book, and many of the films discussed are unavailable in English or outside of Japan, if at all. In some cases this is annoying -- some of them sound amazing -- and useful since your chances of finding them is basically nonexistent so some info is better than none. Galbraith goes to great lengths to paint Kurosawa and Mifune as the complex individuals that they are -- no simple "good guy" vs "bad guy" portraits -- while not sugar coating their sometimes horrible behaviors. If you're a fan of either man and/or their films, you'll probably want to at least read through it. Be warned: it's a huge, heavy book. Not for the dilettante and you may well want to skip through large chunks of "this film is unavailable" sections.