3 Akira Kurosawa scripts discovered

It was announced on Thursday that three scripts involving legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) were recently discovered. These very valuable findings were written during Kurosawa’s early career, before he became internationally famous.

One of the scripts is for a movie titled “Kanokemaru no Hitobito” and was discovered at the Shinobu Hashimoto Memorial Hall in Ichikawa, Hyogo. Based on an idea by Kurosawa, it was actually written by screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, who went on to work with Kurosawa on several films, including “Rashomon.” “Kanokemaru no Hitobito” was actually planned to made into a film in 1951 starring Toshiro Mifune, but production was halted before it was completed. The story involves the sailors on an old transport ship who overcome stormy weather.

A second film script was for the 1946 movie “Asu wo Tsukuru Hitobito,” which was a project by Toho’s labor union. It was a collaborative work involving multiple directors, but Kurosawa had stated during his lifetime that he could not acknowledge it as his own work.

The third script was for the radio drama “Youki na Koujou,” which Kurosawa wrote while he was still working as an assistant director. It was broadcast by NHK in August 1942, and the work was later stored in Waseda University’s Tsubochi Memorial Theatre Museum.

Source:
Sankei Sports