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Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1910-03-23
Deathday: 1998-09-06 (88 years old)

Biography

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.

Filmography

all 128

Movies 126

Director 41

Writer 37

self 32

Screenplay 7

Producer 7

TV Shows 2

Original Film Writer
Living

Living (2022)

Movie
Self - Interviewee
Citizen Kitano

Citizen Kitano (2020)

Movie
Original Film Writer
High and Low

High and Low (2007)

Movie
Original Concept
Samurai 7

Samurai 7 (2004)

TV
6
Self (archive footage)
Chris on Chris

Chris on Chris (2002)

Movie
Original Film Writer
Kaze no Youjinbou

Kaze no Youjinbou (2001)

Movie
Director / Editor / Screenplay
Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August (1991)

Movie
6
Director / Screenplay / Storyboard Artist
Dreams

Dreams (1990)

Movie
2.5
Original Film Writer
Runaway Train

Runaway Train (1985)

Movie
Screenplay / Editor / Director / Storyboard Artist
Ran

Ran (1985)

Movie
4.64
Screenplay / Producer / Executive Producer / Director / Storyboard Artist / Editor
Kagemusha

Kagemusha (1980)

Movie
3.5
Director / Screenplay
Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Movie
4
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Red Beard

Red Beard (1965)

Movie
4.33
Director / Screenplay / Associate Producer / Editor
High and Low

High and Low (1963)

Movie
4.6
Screenplay / Director / Editor
Sanjuro

Sanjuro (1962)

Movie
3.86
Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor
Yojimbo

Yojimbo (1961)

Movie
3.88
Director / Writer / Producer / Editor
The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Movie
3
Editor / Screenplay / Producer / Director
The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Movie
4.75
Producer / Editor / Director / Screenplay
Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood (1957)

Movie
4
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai (1954)

Movie
4.18
Director / Editor / Screenplay
Ikiru

Ikiru (1952)

Movie
5.3
Director / Editor / Screenplay
The Idiot

The Idiot (1951)

Movie
3.5
Director / Screenplay / Editor
Rashomon

Rashomon (1950)

Movie
4.64
Director / Screenplay
Scandal

Scandal (1950)

Movie
3.5
Writer / Director / Associate Producer
Stray Dog

Stray Dog (1949)

Movie
5
Editor / Writer / Director
No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

Movie
1
Director / Editor / Screenplay
Sanshiro Sugata

Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Movie
3.5
Assistant Director / Writer
Horse

Horse (1941)

Movie
Assistant Director
Easy Alley

Easy Alley (1939)

Movie
Assistant Director
Tojuro's Love

Tojuro's Love (1938)

Movie
First Assistant Director
The Beautiful Hawk

The Beautiful Hawk (1937)

Movie
Second Unit / Assistant Director
Avalanche

Avalanche (1937)

Movie
Original Film Writer
Highest 2 Lowest

Highest 2 Lowest

Movie
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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1910-03-23

Deathday
1998-09-06 (88 years old)

Birth Place
Shinagawa-ku, Japan

Height
182-centimeter

Relationships
Yōko Yaguchi (1945 - 1985)

Children
Kazuko Kurosawa, Hisao Kurosawa

Citizenships
Empire of Japan, Japan

Residences
Japan, Japan

Also Known As
أكيرا كوروساوا, อะกิระ คุโระซะวะ, 黑澤明, Kurosawa Akira, 아키라 구로사와, 쿠로사와 아키라, 아키라 쿠로사와

Awards
Praemium Imperiale, Golden Lion, Palme d'Or, César Award, Academy Awards, Order of Culture, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Asahi Prize, Silver Bear for Best Director, Silver Bear, Academy Honorary Award, Ramon Magsaysay Award, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, César Award for Best Foreign Film, People's Honour Award, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, Silver Lion, Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian film, Prize of the French Critics' Union/Best Australian Film, Person of Cultural Merit, BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes, Mainichi Film Award for Best Film, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director, National Board of Review Awards 1951, Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Hōchi Film Award for Best Picture, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kinema Junpo award, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film, Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director, Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay

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