Unfinished Kurosawa film to be unveiled in 2010

An unfinished film by director Akira Kurosawa will be publicly screened in 2010, it was announced on Friday.

The work is a documentary titled “Gendai no Noh” that Kurosawa started in 1983 while production on “Ran” was halted, but was shelved when “Ran” resumed shooting.

Kurosawa captured about 50 minutes of footage of a modern Noh play, which was given to the National Archives after the director’s death. An additional hour of footage will be shot to complete the film in accordance with the original screenplay and production plan.

The finished feature will be shown as part of the “AK100 Project,” which celebrates the 100th anniversary of Kurosawa’s birth in 1910. Memorial activities are reportedly starting up later this year. Along with “Gendai no Noh,” the public will also get a chance to watch several minutes of unseen footage that was intended for the 1970 film “Tora! Tora! Tora!”

Source:
Jason Gray