Akira Kurosawa
Birthday
1910/03/23
Day of death
1998/09/06 (88 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Also know as
أكيرا كوروساوا, อะกิระ คุโระซะวะ, 黑澤明, Kurosawa Akira, 아키라 구로사와, 쿠로사와 아키라, 아키라 쿠로사와, آکیرا کوروساوا
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 numero...Read more
Acting
(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran'
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(2000) Kurosawa
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(2000) A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies
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(2002) Chris on Chris
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(2020) Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa
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(2022) Life Work of Akira Kurosawa
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(1985) Making of Ran
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(1985) A. K.
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(1990) Making of 'Dreams'
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(1993) Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel'
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(2012) The World of Kazuo Miyagawa
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(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...
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(2013) What Is Cinema?
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(1993) In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
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(2020) Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
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(2002) Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
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(1974) Spécial cinéma
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