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He has lived a big life. Tough streets, close calls, a wife of forty-one years, four kids, fifty movies, two Oscars, three “Equalizers”. . . For the first time, the man himself breaks it all down, in his own words, to the moments that mattered.

Papyrus! Cowbell! Head Wound Harry! They're all here—plus quite a few that you wouldn't expect.

From cowboys to X-Men, race cars to rock stars, he’s pulled off era-defining films in virtually every genre. Here the powerhouse filmmaker tells us how he won over Bob Dylan and—after a five-year journey—created an epic folk-rock fable.

"Literally a hundred girls would book themselves in a hotel to be with me. This is not normal."

How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the unlikely rise of Japan’s greatest contemporary writer.