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Akira Kurosawa

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Akira Kurosawa ( March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga). After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshirō Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films. Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America. The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese film artists. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961). After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work—including his final two epics, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to win awards, including the Palme d'Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan. In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.Posthumously, he was named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as "one of the [five] people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years". Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Kurosawa , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Mar 23, 1910 In Tokyo - Japan
Movie/TV Credits:
21
First Appeared:
In the movie A. K. 1985-05-20
Latest Project:
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... 2014-02-01
Known For
Poster of Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'
Poster of Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Lower Depths
Poster of A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies
Poster of Making of 'Dreams'
Filmography
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage) 2014-02-01
Movie What Is Cinema? Self 2013-09-06
Movie The World of Kazuo Miyagawa 2012-01-01
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Drunken Angel Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Dodes'ka-den Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Lower Depths Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Stray Dog Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' Self 2002-10-25
Movie Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' Self 2002-10-25
Movie A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies Self 2000-04-01
Movie Kurosawa Self 2000-12-24
Movie Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema Self 1993-01-01
Movie In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki Self 1993-12-31
Movie Making of 'Dreams' Self 1990-11-02
Movie A. K. Self 1985-05-20