Searching For Kurosawa (黒澤明を探して)

Directed By Richard Rowland

Japan | Documentary | 23 min

New York City Premiere

SEARCHING FOR KUROSAWA chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s RAN in 1985 to its final release three decades later. Now, with the rediscovered clips and Mitsuhiko’s own recollections, the film pieces together an intimate portrait of cinema’s “Emperor,” revealing how a young cinephile’s passion helped preserve invaluable fragments of film history. In the course of unearthing lost footage, Kawamura’s life takes an ironic course; he loved movies so much that his life became a movie.

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    Film Details

    1. Japanese

    2. English

    3. New York City Premiere

    4. 2025

    5. 23 minutes

    6. Documentary

    7. Japan

      8. Richard Rowland


      Richard Rowland is a weekend filmmaker based in Tokyo, Japan. While he has cranked out viral short videos for his full-time marketing job, he has somehow managed to produce the short documentary, SEARCHING FOR KUROSAWA, marking his directorial debut.

      9. Richard Rowland

      10. Richard Rowland

      11. Mitsuhiko Kawamura

      12. Cinematographer: Peter Hadfield

        Production Designer: Nicole Simmons

        Costume Designer: William Ng

        Editor: Shaun Rykiss

        Composer: Kalaisan Kalaichelvan

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