Appendix I

Photos

Fig 1. Idiot (1951) http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-idiot.html

Fig 2: The Lower Depths (1957)

http://lostfischer.blogspot.com/

Fig 3: The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

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Fig 4: Ran (1985) http://www.listal.com/viewentry/146255

Fig 5 :The Godfather (1972)

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?m=200901

Fig 6: The Godfather Part II (1974)

http://listverse.com/2010/08/31/10-classic-dying-lines-in-movies/

Fig. 7: Apocalypse Now (1979)

http://www.fastenupyourseatbelts.com/apocalyseNow/Images.html

Fig 8: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

http://cinemasights.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/dracula-1992/

Fig. 9: Akira Kurosowa and Francis Ford Coppola

http://www.thisisnotporn.net/2011/02/03/akira-kurosawa-and-francis-ford-

coppola/

Appendix II

Production Notes

The Idiot (1951)

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Producer Takashi Koide

Written by Akira Kurosawa, Eijirō Hisaita,

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel)

Starring Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga

Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori

Takashi Shimura

Music Fumio Hayasaka

Cinematography Toshio Ubukata

Editing Akira Kurosawa

Distribution Shokitchu

Release Date 23 May 1951

Running Time 166 Minutes

Country Japan

Language Japanese

The Lower Depths (1957)

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Producer Sojiro Motoki

Written by

Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni

Maxim Gorky (Play)

Starring Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada

Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura

Music Masaru Satô

Cinematography Kazuo Yamasaki

Editing Akira Kurosawa

Distribution Toho

Release Date 1957

Running Time 125 Minutes

Country Japan

Language Japanes

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Producer Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka

Written by Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita

Akira Kurosawa

(Inspired from Shakespeare’s Hamlet)

Starring Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori

Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi

Music Masaru Sato

Cinematograpy Yuzuru Aizawa

Editing Akira Kurosawa

Distribution Toho

Release Date September 19 1960

Running Time 151 minutes

Country Japan

Language Japanese

Ran (1985)

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Producer Katsumi Furukawa, Serge Silberman

Masato Hara, Hisao Kurosawa

Written by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni

Masato Ide

Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada

Music Tōru Takemitsu

Cinematography Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saito

Masaharu Ueda

Editing Akira Kurosawa

Distribution Toho

Release Date June 1, 1985

Running Time 160 minutes

Country Japan

Language Japanese

The Godfather (1972)

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Producer Albert S. Ruddy

Written by Mario Puzo (Novel)

Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino

James Caan, Robert Duvall

Music Carmine Coppola

Cinematography Gordon Willis

Editing William H. Reynolds

Distribution Paramount Pictures

Release Date March 15, 1972

Running Time 175 minutes

Country United States

Language English, Italian

Godfather Part II (1974)

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Producer Francis Ford Coppola

Gray Frederickson

Written by Mario Puzo

Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall

Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro

Music Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola

Cinematography Gordon Willis

Editing Barry Malkin

Richard Marks

Distribution Paramount Pictures

Release Date December 12, 1974

Running Time 200 minutes

Country United States

Language English, Sicilian

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Producer Francis Ford Coppola

Written by John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola

Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando

Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper

Music Carmine Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Cinematography Vittorio Storraro, Richard marks

Editing Walter Murch, Lisa Fruchtman

Distribution Paramount

Release date August 15, 1979

Running Time 153 Minutes

Country United States

Language English

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Producer Francis Ford Coppola

Fred Fuchs

Written by James V.Hart

Bram Stoker (Novel)

Starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves

Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins

Music Wojciech Kilar

Annie Lennox

Cinematography Michael Ballhaus

Anna Gaursand

Editing Glen Scantlebury

Nicholas C. Smith

Distribution Columbia Pictures

Release Date November 13, 1992

Running Time 128 minutes

Country United States, United Kingdom, Romania

language English, Romanian, Latin