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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ordered Kurosawa to cut a scene from a movie, which he refused?
(a) The army.
(b) The governor of his Prefecture.
(c) His producers.
(d) Mifune Toshiro.

2. After working on Horses, what does Kurosawa spend his life doing besides writing?
(a) Dating women.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Reading Western philosphy.
(d) Directing radio shows.

3. How did film-goers know that a particular night shot in Sugata Sanshiro was shot during the day?
(a) They saw a tarp used to block the sun.
(b) They heard lotus blossoms opening.
(c) They heard no crickets or frogs.
(d) There was no moonlight in the shot.

4. Why does Akira Kurosawa think his brother killed himself?
(a) He lost the girl he wanted to marry him.
(b) He was dying of cancer.
(c) He was about to lose his job.
(d) His screenplay had been rejected.

5. What separated Akira from his contemporaries on set with Yamamoto Kajiro?
(a) He was significantly younger.
(b) He had never seen Yamamoto Kajiro's films.
(c) He was the only Japan native.
(d) He had no degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was the first movie that Uekusa and Akira wrote together?

2. Why did Akira apply to PCL at 26?

3. Which Japanese director is not mentioned in Good People?

4. What types of laws was Kurosawa critiquing with his film Scandal?

5. What innovation in movies arrived in the chapter An Alleyway in the Floating World?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the final fight of Sugata Sanshiro a challenge for Kurosawa?

2. What was the talent like at the PCL?

3. How did Yanamoto help Akira grow as a director?

4. How did Akira accept japan's defeat in the war?

5. How did Kurosawa end up directing Sugata Sanshiro?

6. How did an army major and Akira Kurosawa come to an agreement regarding cutting a scene from one of his films?

7. Why does Kurosawa think his writing process was flawed in Scandal?

8. What controversy does Kurosawa have filming a night scene in Sugata Sanshiro?

9. How did Akira find his brother in An Alleyway in the Floating World?

10. What was the break from the Toho, and how did it affect Kurosawa?

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