Early Life and Career
Bock was born and raised in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley High School. She then attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1967.
For the next five years, she lived in Japan, near Tokyo, where she taught English and helped to publish English-language travel books.
After that, she returned to the United States to attend Harvard University, where she received a master's degree in East Asian studies. She stayed at Harvard to receive a PhD, where she wrote a dissertation on Japanese film directors. This involved returning to Japan and interviewing some directors, including Akira Kurosawa; the two struck up a friendship as a result.
Bock's dissertation was published as the 1978 book Japanese film directors (ISBN 0-87011-304-6).
Bock served as an assistant producer on Kurosawa's 1980 film Kagemusha.
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