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- ↑ Richie, Donald; Mellen, Joan (1998). The Films of Akira Kurosawa (Third edition). Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-220379.
- ↑ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.
- ↑ Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-157-1.