• Figure 1.13. Umehara Seizan’s calligraphy for Kagemusha (1980); along with Im Kwon-taek and King Hu, Kurosawa Akira was one of the directors who cared deeply about the calligraphy in his films.

Stereopticon card of Osaka’s Dotenburi entertainment district

From Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema by Markus Nornes

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