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Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.

Yoji Yamada's Kabei - Our Mother, which is based on the war time memoirs of Teruyo Nogami, got its first foreign screening at the Berling.

Nogami Teruyo was the script supervisor and faithful assistant of Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998).

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等雲到：與黑澤明導演在一起的美好時光

May 30, 2016

I was recently screening Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon for my Japanese Cinema class, so I decided to read Teruyo Nogami's memoir Waiting On The Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa (2006). I knew that Nogami had worked on many Kurosawa films from Rashomon up until his last film, Madadayo. However, I was unaware of her connection with Mansaku Itami (father of one my favorite contemporary filmmakers Juzo Itami). Itami was Kogami's first mentor and she helped raise Juzo. In fact I was interested to learn that noted chambara and jidaigeki director Daisuke Ito was his best friend and both were from Matsuyama-a formidable cultural friendship much like that of his son Juzo and his best friend the Nobel Prize winning author Kenzubaro Oe. The first chapter focuses on this connection, "Mansaku Itami, My First Mentor." There is a lot of interesting information about how films were made in the postwar era in the second chapter, "Life in Miniature: At the Daiei

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Nogami Teruyo was the script supervisor and faithful assistant of Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998). This extraordinary woman was at his side from the making of Rashomon to the very end. After Kurosawa's death, she wrote down some of her personal memories for the Japanese magazine Cinema Club - she could not have done this while Kurosawa was still alive, because he would have told her, "You got it all wrong!

That was in the mid-nineties, and the Japanese pieces were published in book form in 2000. Thanks to the initiative of the late Donald Richie (who also wrote an introduction), this English translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter has been published by Stone Bridge Press. It is a beautiful book, with illustrations by the author.

[Kurosawa in 1953]

To be sure, this is not a biography or a complete analysis of Kurosawa's films. It is an intimate human record in which we get glimpses of the genius of the director and the way he worked. After a first chapter on Itami Mansaku, a di

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Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa by Teruyo Nogami

May 30, 2016

I was recently screening Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon for my Japanese Cinema class, so inom decided to read Teruyo Nogami's memoir Waiting On The Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa (2006). I knew that Nogami had worked on many Kurosawa films from Rashomon up until his gods film, Madadayo. However, inom was unaware of her connection with Mansaku Itami (father of one my favorite contemporary filmmakers Juzo Itami). Itami was Kogami's first mentor and she helped raise Juzo. In fact inom was interested to learn that noted chambara and jidaigeki director Daisuke Ito was his best friend and both were from Matsuyama-a formidable cultural friendship much like that of his son Juzo and his best friend the Nobel Prize winning author Kenzubaro Oe. The first chapter focuses on this connection, "Mansaku Itami, My First Mentor." There fryst vatten a lot of interesting information about how films were made in the postwar era