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1980143208Yokohama Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. Holograph pencil annotations throughout regarding casting including the use of professional or amateur actors as well as a notation regarding lead actor Katsu Shintaro who was fired on the first day of shooting. <br/><br/>The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. <br/><br/>When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola convinced 20th Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights receving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 267. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
1963148710Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa considered one of the director's masterpieces following a small-town doctor and his new intern a highly educated arrogant young man. <br/><br/>Set in the Edo district of Koishikawa.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers with a blue titled dust jacket. Title page present dated 1963. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered g-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the rear wrapper with perfect binding. Jacket is Very Good plus with light foxing to the fore-edges and rear panel. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
1949143058Tokyo: Film Art Association 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Holograph ink and pencil annotations on two leaves. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout wrapper split at spine with mild foxing otherwise Good condition. <br/><br/>BFI 534. Criterion Collection 233. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan Classic Noir. Film Art Association unknown books
1952149482Tokyo: Toho 1952. Collection of four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1952 Japanese film. One with a stamp noting the name of actor Takashi Shimura to the bottom right corner of the verso. <br/><br/>A mid-level government bureaucrat discovers he has terminal cancer and decides to try to find meaning in life before his death. The first collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and screenwriter Hideo Oguni beginning a decade-long involvement which would produce among many others "Seven Samurai" 1954 "Throne of Blood" 1957 and "The Hidden Fortress" 1958.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Tokyo. <br/><br/>Four photographs 10 x 8 inches one photograph 6.5 x 5 inches. Very Good plus one photograph with light foxing on the verso. <br/><br/>BFI 591. Criterion Collection 221. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Toho unknown books
1952149622Tokyo: Toho 1952. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1952 Japanese film showing director Akira Kurosawa adjusting the lid of a teapot while actors Takashi Shimura and Miki Odagiri look on. With the stamps of Forum Film and Israel Film Archive on the verso.<br/><br/>A mid-level government bureaucrat discovers he has terminal cancer and decides to try to find meaning in life before his death. The first collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and screenwriter Hideo Oguni beginning a decade-long involvement which would produce among many others "Seven Samurai" 1954 "Throne of Blood" 1957 and "The Hidden Fortress" 1958.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Tokyo. <br/><br/>11 x 9 inches. Very Good with light scuffing and edgewear throughout.<br/><br/>BFI 591. Criterion Collection 221. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Toho unknown books
1970148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. <br/><br/>Annotations relate to the following: a names of the chosen cast members b set rehearsals and camera rehearsals c times for shooting e.g. Morning Afternoon Evening and Night phone numbers for production personnel d names of potential and/or hired camera assistants e names of potential and/or hired actors f indication of the production company chosen Toho Corporation as well as film stock and lense sizes to be used g additional notes regarding location of some settings h changes to dialogue and action and h some final post-production notes.<br/><br/>Director Akira Kurosawa's first color film based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 1962 novel "Kisetsu no nai machi" A City Without Seasons. A series of vignettes about a slum in the suburbs of Tokyo and its impoverished inhabitants. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Tokyo.<br/><br/>Script:<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered d-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding.<br/><br/>Schedule:<br/><br/>White titled wrappers. 13 leaves with last page numbered 23. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a faintly toned spine and very faint foxing to the fore-edge side-stapled with two staples.<br/><br/>Detailed notes with translation of annotations noted above with accompanying images are provided with the script. Toho unknown books
1992148720Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film.<br/><br/>Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers perfect bound dated 1992.11.5. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 197. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. Dentsu Music and Entertainment unknown books
1960143066Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Company 1960. Shooting script for the legendary 1961 Japanese film. Working copy belonging to Omura Senkichi who played a small role as a traveling servant in the film with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. <br/><br/>Though not credited as such based thematically on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel "Red Harvest" and subsequently the basis for many other films including "A Fistful of Dollars" Sergio Leone 1964 "Django" Sergio Corbucci 1966 and "Last Man Standing" Walter Hill 1996. Director Kurosawa has been quoted as saying that many plot elements from another Hammett novel "The Glass Key" make up the film. <br/><br/>All titles and text in Japanese. <br/><br/>White perfect bound wrappers with purple and black titles. 164 pages printed on recto and verso right to left in the Japanese style with last page numbered "d-33." Mechanical duplication. Light foxing and age toning to both pages and wrapper else Very Good condition. <br/><br/>BFI 505. Criterion Collection 52. Ebert III. Grant Japan. Kurosawa Production Company unknown books
1985149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese.<br/><br/>Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. <br/><br/>Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
1956150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr.<br/><br/>Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film.<br/><br/>Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. <br/><br/>Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1965149476Chicago: Esquire 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With the stamp of R.I.C. Productions in Brussels on the verso.<br/><br/>A so-called modeling agency in New York City secretly operates as an undercover prostitution ring.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and edgeworn. Esquire unknown books
1981144586Paris: Sara Films 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. <br/><br/>Noel Yves Montand a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole Catherine Deneuve is met by two fugitives one is Serge Pierre Forget an old accomplice who is dying from a recent gun wound the other is Mickey Gerard Depardieu an unstable maniac. Mickey's paranoia and violent outburst pulls Noel into the conflict as the police are on his tail. A high stress series of shoot-outs ensues.<br/><br/>Shot on location in France. <br/><br/>9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sara Films unknown books
1971144851Paris: Argos Films 1971. Vintage photograph of Catherine Jourdan and Heinz Bennent from the 1972 film. <br/><br/>An experimental fantasy film full of erotic themes set in a fairytale-like forest. <br/><br/>8.5 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Argos Films unknown books
1973145320Burbank CA: A.J. Films 1973. Vintage borderless photograph of actor Alain Delon nude along with various members of the cast on a beach location during shooting of the 1973 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>After a breakup Helene Masson Annie Girardot takes her vacation at a rejuvenation clinic run by Dr. Devilers Alain Delon and his partner Dr. Berbard Michel Duchausso to prevent aging. Although the treatment helps Helene feel well she is disgusted when she realizes the disturbing source of the revitalizing formula. <br/><br/>Shot on location in France. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. A.J. Films unknown books
1968149444Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Presse Parc Film 1968. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 French film. With a stamp specific to the French release for the film on the verso and one with a provenance stamp.<br/><br/>After being released from the hospital following a suicide attempt a young man is scouted by a mysterious research group to participate in a time travel experiment. Alain Resnais' fifth film a brutal rumination on memory and the death of a relationship thematically and stylistically a precursor to Michel Gondry's 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."<br/><br/>Shot on location in Brussels Belgium.<br/><br/>Three photographs 5 x 6.75 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Presse Parc Film unknown books
1961144267Paris: Cocinor 1961. Collection of two vintage photographs of Alain Resnais on the set of the 1961 film. With holograph annotations in pencil and a press agency stamp on the verso of each. <br/><br/>An enigmatic dreamlike film about a man and a woman who meet at a party where he insists they have met before and she that they haven't. Viewed as either ambiguous surreal masterpiece or an incomprehensible mess with very little middle ground. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Germany and France. <br/><br/>3.5 x 5 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. Cocinor unknown books
1961149454Paris: F.O.G. 1961. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1961 film two borderless two with bottom margin and one vertical photograph with left margin. "L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad" stamp on versos.<br/><br/>An enigmatic dreamlike film about a man and a woman who meet at a party where he insists they have met before and she that they haven't. Viewed as either ambiguous surreal masterpiece or an incomprehensible indulgence with almost no middle ground. <br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear one with creasing at left corners. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. F.O.G. unknown books
1963143079Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Argos Films 1963. Archive of 15 vintage borderless photographs from the 1963 film each photograph showing director Alain Resnais on the set often accompanied by cast crew or camera and lighting set ups. With holograph annotations on the verso of a few photographs. <br/><br/>In a small seaside town an antiques dealer her former lover and her son all struggle in with real or imagined elements of their past. Resnais third feature and second film working with screenwriter Jean Cayrol having previously collaborated on the 1955 short film "Night and Fog." <br/><br/>Set and shot in Boulogne-sur-Mer France. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 824. Rosenbaum 1000. Argos Films unknown books
1966141085N.p.: Europa Film 1966. Vintage pressbook for the 1966 film. In the wake of the Spanish Civil War a communist exile continues his anti-Franco activities from his new Paris home. The film follows his disillusionment with the revolution and its questionable tactics. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Two pages saddle stapled 10 x 12 inches. Near Fine with a small holograph graphite notation to the recto. Europa Film unknown books
1959140805Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Argos Films 1959. Collection of eight vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1959 film. Four photographs with the stamp of production company Argos Films seven with a sticker noting they are from the collection of film historian collector and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation TCD cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller one with both a sticker and stamp from the collection of film historian Maurice Bessy and all with holograph annotations on the versos. <br/><br/>A series of conversations about memory history and forgetfulness between a departing French actress and the married Japanese architect with whom she had a brief affair the film was a major catalyst for the Rive Gauche film movement. Screenwriter Marguerite Duras was nominated for an Academy Award and Alain Resnais received a Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Generally Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 196. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. Argos Films unknown books
1974151454N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actress Marianne Eggerikx.<br/><br/>A young woman goes mad after the murder of her lover and is incarcerated in a sexually sadistic convent. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Bier p. 458. N.p. unknown books
1970152357N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 French film. With provenance stamps to the verso and one with the stamp of Editions de Minuit publishing house. <br/><br/>A group of French students experience a variety of unusual and erotic experiences after sampling a mysterious Dutch man's hallucinogenic "fear powder." <br/><br/>Shot on location in Tunisia and Slovakia. <br/><br/>Two photographs 9.25 x 7 inches one photograph 9.5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1963150389N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Robbe-Grillet on the set of the 1963 film. French "L'Immortelle" and "57- -3" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Directorial debut of novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet his first film project after writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad" 1961.<br/><br/>Robbe-Grillet's eliptical narrative-defying tale of a withdrawn French man Jacques Doniol-Valcroze in a strange city Istanbul unable to speak the language falling in love with a mysterious woman Francoise Brion who shortly thereafter disappears.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Istanbul Turkey. <br/><br/>6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 1188. N.p. unknown books
1975142089France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. <br/><br/>One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgangers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material she appears in two of the photographs here than in the actual film. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Fine. Arcadie Productions unknown books
1975144355France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Vintage borderless photograph of Sylvia Kristel from the 1975 film. With holograph annotations in pencil on the verso. <br/><br/>One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgangers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arcadie Productions unknown books
