... an art school that underlined more Western styles types of art. About this time he also joined an artists" group with a great passion for Nineteenth century Russian literature, the writer Dostoevsky was a particular preference for him. Another person who Kurosawa looked up to and was influenced by was Heigo, his brother, who loved the film and worked as a benshi, a film narrator ... literature also showed in two excellent versions of Shakespeare (Macbeth in Throne of Blood and King Lear in Ran) and versions of Gorky's The Lower Depths and The Idiot by Dostoevsky. Although Kurosawa somet...

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