Acclaimed film and theatre director Julie Taymor paid tribute to legendary Japanese filmmaker Kurosawa Akira in Tokyo on Tuesday, crediting his influence on her deciding to enter the film industry and contributing to her multi-cultural world view.“I go back to when I saw my first ‘foreign film’ in Paris, when I was 15 years old.
I watched ‘Rashomon’ and that changed my life,” said Taymor.
“Kurosawa! He is the reason, his movies are the reason, that I became a film director.”“Rashomon,” based on a Japanese folk talk, won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion in 1951 and has since emerged as a classic of global cinema.Taymor, whose credits include the original Broadway production of “The Lion King” and the 1997 film “Frida,” is head of this year’s jury at the Tokyo International Film Festival, which will decide winners in its competition section.
Her words came at a jury press conference,
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