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Waiting on the Weather
Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa
by: Teruyo Nogami
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A revealing memoir about the legendary director, written by his assistant of 50 years
First English translation!
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Price : US$24.95
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ISBN: 978-1-933330-09-9
296 pp, hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5", 24 b/w photos and illustrations
Foreword by Donald Richie
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"A wonderfully intimate and beautifully written portrait of one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived, which makes it essential reading."
—Martin Scorsese
"This book is a treasury of stories and a key to the great body of cinematic work of Akira Kurosawa. Nogami-san's salty personality is perfect to show his many sides, not always flattering, which is essential in grasping him."
—Francis Ford Coppola
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Description
Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when she was hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon in 1950. A witness to its filming, and its near destruction in a fire, over the next 50 years she worked on all the master’s subsequent films, from Ikiru, Seven Samurai, and Throne of Blood to Kagemusha, Ran, and Dreams.
No one was more closely involved in Kurosawa’s productions. In this memoir, beginning with her bittersweet reminiscences of Japan’s postwar film industry and charmingly illustrated with her own sketches, Nogami writes candidly about Kurosawa’s energy and creativity, and his famous rages. She tells the inside story on how so many classics of world cinema were made and reveals heretofore unknown details of Kurosawa’s volatile relationships with composer Toru Takemitsu and actors Shintaro Katsu and Toshiro Mifune. She also offers many episodes involving Kurosawa and other directors, such as John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Sidney Lumet, John Cassavetes, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola.
Kurosawa was fortunate to have Nogami, just as we are fortunate to have her first-hand observations on genius, teamwork, devotion, and luck (good and bad) in the art of making movies.
Teruyo Nogami was born in Tokyo in 1927 and was for half a century a principal assistant to film director Akira Kurosawa. She is also a respected writer, reviewer, interviewer, editor, and film lecturer. Teruyo Nogami lives in Tokyo, where she remains a vital part of the film community. Her award-winning biographical work Chichi e no Requiem (“Requiem for a Father”) is being developed as a film by Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai).
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