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The good thing about much-respected and prodigious artists is that they tend to have done a lot of work that most of their fans may not have known about. Take Kurosawa for instance. He wrote a screenplay which he intended to direct after his 1965 film Red Beard, and was intended to be his first color film before financial backing fell through. He didn’t get to make a color film for five years, but the screenplay he wrote was proverbially tucked into a drawer for a while and didn’t pop up for years, until it became 1985’s Runaway Train.
Kurosawa’s screenplay was adapted for a North American audience by several, including Edward Bunker, Mr. Blue from Reservoir Dogs. Manny (Jon Voight, <a href="http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/72055/hea…Read the entire review
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