Kurosawa Akira would appear as a strict person with hot temper if you know him from a distance
But those who lived and worked with him deemed differently 3 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,120 My name is Kurosawa Kazuko, I'm a costume designer
I learned from my mother that I was born on the day
Of the party of "Seven Samurai"
My father and Mifune Toshiro
And many other actors and team members went out of town to party
Most of them at the party including Mr Mifune had sons
So when they heard that Kurosawa family got a daughter
They were so excited that they drunk all night
Unlike other families
Because my father was a director
Everyday we would receive dozens of people at home talking about movies
It's always bustling
Growing up like this I didn't find it unusual
Until I went to others' home
For the upbringing of children, my father believed that
First, children should be left to grow by their free will
Human are born geniuses
Their potential are undermined by grownups
They should remain the way they are
Second, show children good stuff
In the Edo period, there were businessmen doing gold business
They let their children play with pure gold
And later when they gave him a gold alloy
He threw it away
It's fake stuff
So it's important to know what good stuff looks like
As a Kurosawa girl, I got special favor from teachers
So other kids at school disliked me
When I was in elementary school
I started to hate school
And my parents were like, "that's fine"
They bought me painting supplies and let my paint at home
When I was very young, and sometime my mother was not around
My father would spend time with me, painting and playing
Later he would bring me to movies
The first movie of my father that I watched was "Red Beard" when I was 10 39 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:58,600 My father really wanted to know what I thought of it
So he asked me as soon as he got home
"It was fun", I said
There were adult scenes in the movie
"I would be terrified if you actually got it"
One time we watched "The Exorcist" together
And he was rather concerned about me
There was a kid in "The Exorcist" got twisted by head
The night of that day, he checked on me a couple of times
I was like, what are you doing
He said he was worried if I felt haunted
So worried that he couldn't sleep
Kurosawa Akira was an interesting person
"Happy birthday, dear Kurosawa"
I don't think I understand the nature of movie
Movie is extraordinary
It's hard to master the core of it
Father was always inspired by interesting things
I hardly saw him having difficulty writing a script
Movie was the medium for him to channel his thoughts and feelings
Movie made him happy
My mother was the leading actress of "The Most Beautiful", that's how they met
She had a straightforward character
And she was born to a prestigous family
When Emperor Showa visited UK on a cruise ship
My grandfather was the purser on that ship
Whereas Kurosawa Akira was a broke student
He had to walk instead of taking a train to save money for books
After they met, my father wrote many love letters to mother
To support his career
My mother did everything except movie for him
She even sold her house for him to make movies
But it was reported that my mother sold her house to maintain her luxurious lifestyle
My parents lived by their own philosophy
Nothing matters except for life and death
One time we lent a villa to a friend and it caught on fire
The whole building was burnt down
To comfort that friend
My father said, "well, the house does burn"
And he showered his friend with words of comfort
That's the kind of things we do
He made 30 films
The one that I will never forget is "Dreams" in which I played a part
After my mother passed away, I cooked for my father everyday and spent time with him
What's your dream last night? Here is mine
We shared our dreams everyday
One day my father said he was gonna write a script
That was the script of "Dreams"
Naturally he asked me if I was interested in participating
I started from the basics
He suggested costumes as a start and I took his suggestion
It was fun working with him and I could feel that he was drown to movies
Working at the site of "Dreams" was like returning to my childhood home
With all those film workers
Talking excitedly about movies
In such an atmosphere I too fell in love with movie-making
As a member of the Kurosawa team
I had to give it all in, to work, to learn
As long as you work as if it's life-or-death matter
You will sleep well at night
This is the origin of human
Kurosawa Akira was surely serious and perfectionism
Controlling was an important part at site
But it wasn't all
But it was all that the attention was focused on
So people began to believe that's who he was
Kurosawa Akira would appear as a strict person with hot temper if you know him from a distance
But those who lived and worked with him deemed differently
He used to say that
If the media edited my joking and laughing scenes together and released it
Probably Kurosawa Akira would be different in people's eyes
I saw him joking half of the time at site
After his death, many wrote about him
Kurosawa Akira was like this at work
A surprisingly large number of books about him was published
But not a single one was written by a truly close one
So an editor with "Bungeishunjū" asked me to write one
He later became the president
I remembered my father like this
But his fans would say, that's not Kurosawa Akira
And condemn me for depicting him like that
If a god can take on human form
He might take on a form beyond your imagination
I lived with him dozens of years
I know how he is, and I'm sorry if you find it hard to accept