Akira Kurosawa Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Akira Kurosawa Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Akira Kurosawa (Japanese: é»'澤明 Kurosawa Akira; March 23, 1910 â€"

September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who

directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. He is regarded as one

of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of

cinema.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 (a.k.a. Judo Saga). After the war, the critically acclaimed

Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown 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 15 films.Rashomon, 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) and Yojimbo (1961).

After the 1960s he became much less prolific; even so, his later

workâ€"including his final two epics, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran

(1985)â€"continued to win awards, though more often abroad than in

Japan.
Akira Kurosawa Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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