大島渚監督R.I.P..大島渚監督が次回作として熱望していた早川雪洲を素材にした「Hollywood Zen」の記述あり。英文だが全文読み応えあり
http://csac.buffalo.edu/merry.pdf
Oshima spent a few years trying and failing to raise money for Hollywood Zen, a biopic about the Japanese American movie star Sessue Hayakawa. He returned to Japan to make Taboo instead, buta stroke in 1996 derailed those plans. He recovered sufficient strength to direct the film a few years later, albeit from a wheelchair. Taboo, based on a novel by Ryotaro Shiba, is set in 1865, when the shogunate had taken control of the nation from the emperor..
