1. Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta (1985; repr. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 201–202.
2. Sharon Hamilton Nolte, “Individualism in Taisho Japan,” The Journal of Asian Studies 43, no. 4 (August 1984): 677. See also Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs (New York: Kodansha America, 2001), 90–96.
3. Bert Cardullo, ed., Akira Kurosawa: Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2008), xx.
4. John H. Kopper, “Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala and the Imperial Vision,” in, The Force of Vision, III: Power of Narration, ed. Earl Miner and Toru Hagu (Tokyo: International Comparative Literature Association, xvi, 1995), 195. In interviews, Kurosawa refers to the diaries by the title, Into the Wilds of Ussuri. I found an English translation simply titled, Dersu Uzala, trans. V. Schneerson (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.).
5. Kyoko Hirano, “Making Films for all the People: An Interview with Akira Kurosawa,” Cineaste 14, no.4 (1986): 24; reprinted in Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa, ed. James Goodwin (New York: G. K. Hall & Co., an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Co., 1994), 57.