35,000 Honor Memory of Director Kurosawa
Emotions ran deep as about 35,000 fans and invited guests bade farewell to the emperor of Japanese film, Akira Kurosawa, at a memorial service Sunday.
Kurosawa, who put the nation’s cinema on the world map with classics such as “Seven Samurai” and “Rashomon,” died of a stroke Sept. 6 at the age of 88.
Fans, some wiping away tears, lined the streets outside Kurosawa’s studio in Yokohama.
“Your films and your art have left us with so many important messages that we will take into the next century,” actor Tatsuya Nakadai said in a eulogy.
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