蜥蜴の尻っぽ とっておき映画の話
Born in Tokyo in 1927, for half a century, from Rashomon (1950) to Madadayo (1993), Teruyo Nogami stood by Akira Kurosawa as a script supervisor and principal assistant. She was 23 years old when Kurosawa made Rashomon. Altogether, she has worked on 20 films and spending almost half a century working with the world famous Kurosawa, supporting by his side, and was so indispensable that she was described as "my right hand" by Kurosawa.
She is also the author of Waiting on the Weater: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa, Kabei, Our Mother, which was an autobiographical novel about her own childhood and was made into a film by director Yojoi Yamada, starring Sayuri Yoshinaga.
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