Synopsis
Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon". A witness to its filming - and its near destruction in a fire - over the next 50 years she worked on all the master's films - "Ikiru", "Seven Samurai", "Kagemusha" and "Dreams". No one was more closely involved in Kurosawa's productions, and in this memoir, charmingly illustrated with her own sketches, Nogami writes candidly about how the films were made, profiles many other Japanese film giants, the director's energy and creativity, his genius and flaws, and his famous rages.