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

Living (2022)

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)

Citizen Kitano (2020)

Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa (2020)

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

Ikiru (2007)

High and Low (2007)

Samurai 7 (2004)

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create (2002)

Chris on Chris (2002)

Kaze no Youjinbou (2001)

Dora-heita (2000)

Last Man Standing (1996)

Madadayo (1993)

Rhapsody in August (1991)

Dreams (1990)

Runaway Train (1985)

Ran (1985)

Kagemusha (1980)

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Stray Dog (1973)

Song of the Horse (1971)

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Red Beard (1965)

The Outrage (1964)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)

High and Low (1963)

Sanjuro (1962)

Yojimbo (1961)

Play of the Week: Rashomon (1960)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Advance Patrol (1957)

The Lower Depths (1957)

Throne of Blood (1957)

I Live in Fear (1955)

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree (1955)

Vanished Enlisted Man (1955)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Ikiru (1952)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1952)

The Idiot (1951)

Rashomon (1950)

Jiruba no Tetsu (1950)

Scandal (1950)

Stray Dog (1949)

The Quiet Duel (1949)

The Portrait (1948)

Drunken Angel (1948)

Snow Trail (1947)

One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two (1945)

The Most Beautiful (1944)

Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Horse (1941)

Roppa's Honeymoon (1940)

Easy Alley (1939)

Enoken’s Shrewd Period (1939)

Enoken's Surprising Life (1938)

Composition Class (1938)

Tojuro's Love (1938)

Subterranean Heat (1938)

The Beautiful Hawk (1937)

Avalanche (1937)

Japanese Women's Textbook (1937)

Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn (1937)

A Tale of Thieves in War Time: Part 1 - Tiger and Wolf (1937)

Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 2 (1936)

Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1 (1936)

Paradise of the Virgin Flowers (1936)

A Fistful of Dollars Remake

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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1910-03-23
Deathday1998-09-06 (88 years old)
Birth PlaceShinagawa-ku, Japan
Height182-centimeter
RelationshipsYōko Yaguchi (1945 - 1985)
ChildrenKazuko Kurosawa, Hisao Kurosawa
CitizenshipsEmpire of Japan, Japan
ResidencesJapan, Japan
Also Known Asأكيرا كوروساوا, อะกิระ คุโระซะวะ, 黑澤明, Kurosawa Akira, 아키라 구로사와, 쿠로사와 아키라, 아키라 쿠로사와
AwardsPraemium 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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