Akira Kurosawa

Kurosawa on the set of ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' in December 1953 .}}|黒澤明 or 黒沢明|Kurosawa Akira|March 23, 1910September 6, 1998}} was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 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. Kurosawa 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 (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, (1980) and (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. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 1984

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Tōkyō : Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha Jigyōbu Shuppan Shōhin Hansokushitsu, 1990
Dai 3-han.

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Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 1990

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Tokyo FM Shuppan, 1992
Shohan.

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1982

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Shūeisha, 1984

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Iwanami Shoten, 1987

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 1999

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
New York : Knopf [Distributed by Random House], 1982
[First edition].

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Fukutake Shoten, 1991
Shohan.

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Shōgakkan, 1999
Shohan.

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1982
1st ed.

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Paris : L'Avant-scene, 1991

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1992

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Greenwhich Film Production, 1985

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Paris : L'Avant-scène, 1971

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Paris : L'Avant-scene, 1990

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
London : Lorrimer Publishing Ltd., 1968

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, 2010

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by Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
Tōkyō : Kinema Junpōsha, 1970

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