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Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio

Mónica Boixeda Florentine, Only-Be, Restaurantes

The Piazza della Signoria and the Palazzo Vecchio are found in the centre of the city and should be visited. Museums and the history of Florence come together for the tourist.

The Gaze of the Samurai: The drawings of Akira Kurosawa in Madrid

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

The ABC Museum in Madrid is holding an impressive exhibition of the storyboard of the Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa until 12 June. Entitled La mirada del samurai: Los dibujos de Akira Kurosawa (The Gaze of the Samurai: The Drawings of Akira Kurosawa) this exhibition provides a view of his complex body of work, which marked an era in international cinema and drew the world’s attention to Japanese culture. The exhibition is comprised of 120 drawings made by Kurosawa that were used for reference during the shooting of Kagemusha, The Shadow Warrior (1980); Ran (1985); Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990); Rhapsody in August (1991); The Sea is Watching (2002) and Not Yet (1993). Akira Kurosawa was born in the Omori district of Tokyo, Japan in 1910. His father’s side of the family were once samurais, but now worked in education and commerce. Kurosawa was passionate about drawing and also cinema, which had only recently arrived in Japan. His first job in the industry was narrating silent films, though this ended when talkies appeared. In 1938 he enrolled as a director’s apprentice in the Toho film studio where he worked with Kajiro Yamamoto. These weren’t easy years for filmmaking in Japan because the government had tight control over productions, ensuring that they adhered to their nationalist agenda. During this period Kurosawa produced films which largely served as propaganda for the militaristic government. However, Kurosawa’s free-thinking tendencies led him to join unions and write impassioned columns in defence of labour rights. This point of view was reflected in his film, No Regrets for Our Youth, which is about the dramatic life of a... read more