A. K.
In 1985, Chris Marker traveled to Japan to attend the filming of Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Marker analyzes the progress of filming; the infinite patience of a team under the orders of a meticulous director down to the smallest detail; the antithetical mixture of the modern with the traditional; of the real with the fictitious; of life with cinema… and literature.
- Year: 1985
- Country: France, Japan
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Production, Herald Ace
- Keyword: japan, cinema on cinema, movie business, biography, making of, documentary filmmaking, semi-biographical, film shoot, movie making
- Director: Chris Marker
- Cast: Chris Marker, Akira Kurosawa, Asakazu Nakai, Fumio Yanoguchi, Ishirō Honda, Shinobu Muraki