About Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production. 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 during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (1943). After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro 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 fifteen films. Rashomon (1950), which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The commercial and critical success of that 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 filmmakers. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded (and often adapted) films, such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961) and High and Low (1963). After the 1960s he became much less prolific; even so, his later work—including two of his final films, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to receive great acclaim. 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 there as being among the five people who most prominently contributed to the improvement of Asia in the 20th century. His career has been honored by many retrospectives, critical studies and biographies in both print and video, and by releases in many consumer media.
Movie Credits
Akira Kurosawa has appeared in 26 movies.
TV Credits
Akira Kurosawa has appeared in 1 show.
These include
Spécial cinéma.
Production Credits
Writing
Credited for Screenplay in 43 shows -
Sanshiro Sugata,
The Admirable Isshin Tasuke!,
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two,
Four Love Stories,
One Wonderful Sunday,
Snow Trail,
The Portrait,
Escape at Dawn,
Scandal,
Jiruba no Tetsu,
Rashomon,
Beyond Love and Hate,
The Idiot,
The Den of Beasts,
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail,
Sword for Hire,
My Wonderful Yellow Car,
Vanished Enlisted Man,
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree,
Ikiru,
Seven Samurai,
Throne of Blood,
The Lower Depths,
Advance Patrol,
The Hidden Fortress,
Yojimbo,
Sanjuro,
The Fencing Master,
High and Low,
Jakoman and Tetsu,
Red Beard,
Tora! Tora! Tora!,
Dodes'ka-den,
Dersu Uzala,
Kagemusha,
Ran,
Runaway Train,
Dreams,
Rhapsody in August,
Madadayo,
Dora-heita,
The Sea Is Watching and
Ikiru.
Credited for Writer in 19 shows -
Horse,
Wings of Victory,
World of Love,
Wrestling-Ring Festival,
The Most Beautiful,
No Regrets for Our Youth,
Drunken Angel,
Lady From Hell,
The Quiet Duel,
Jakoman and Tetsu,
Stray Dog,
Vendetta of a Samurai,
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail,
Saga of the Vagabonds,
The Bad Sleep Well,
Sanshiro Sugata,
Song of the Horse,
After the Rain and
Tsubaki Sanjuro.
Directing
Credited for Director in 32 shows -
Sanshiro Sugata,
The Most Beautiful,
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two,
Those Who Make Tomorrow,
No Regrets for Our Youth,
One Wonderful Sunday,
Drunken Angel,
The Quiet Duel,
Stray Dog,
Scandal,
Rashomon,
The Idiot,
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail,
I Live in Fear,
Ikiru,
Seven Samurai,
Throne of Blood,
The Lower Depths,
The Hidden Fortress,
The Bad Sleep Well,
Yojimbo,
Sanjuro,
High and Low,
Red Beard,
Song of the Horse,
Dodes'ka-den,
Dersu Uzala,
Kagemusha,
Ran,
Dreams,
Rhapsody in August and
Madadayo.
Credited for Assistant Director in 13 shows -
Paradise of the Virgin Flowers,
Avalanche,
The Beautiful Hawk,
Subterranean Heat,
Tojuro's Love,
Composition Class,
Enoken's Surprising Life,
Enoken’s Shrewd Period,
Easy Alley,
Roppa's Honeymoon,
Enoken's Cropped Hair,
The Monkey King and
Horse.
Credited for Third Assistant Director in 11 shows -
Enoken’s Ten Millions,
Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel,
Tokyo Rhapsody,
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf,
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn,
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again,
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes,
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again,
Japanese Women's Textbook,
Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way and
Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait.
Editing
Credited for Editor in 20 shows -
Sanshiro Sugata,
No Regrets for Our Youth,
Rashomon,
The Idiot,
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree,
Ikiru,
Seven Samurai,
Throne of Blood,
The Lower Depths,
The Hidden Fortress,
The Bad Sleep Well,
Yojimbo,
Sanjuro,
Legacy of the 500,000,
High and Low,
Red Beard,
Kagemusha,
Ran,
Rhapsody in August and
Madadayo.
Production
Crew
Credited for Second Unit in 1 show -
Avalanche.
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