‘Ikiru’ at 70: How Akira Kurosawa’s Collaborators Helped Him Write a Masterpiece
Akira Kurosawa’s collaborative writing process on Ikiru complicates the cliché of the film auteur whose artistic vision is solely their own.
Burke Nixon
Burke Nixon lives in Houston and teaches in the Program in Writing
and Communication at Rice University. His writing has appeared in
The American Scholar, Commonweal, Paste, and the Oxford
American.