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Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Director · Born 1910-03-23 · Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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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 o…

Directed

  1. Seven Samurai (1954) — Director
  2. Rashomon (1950) — Director
  3. Ran (1985) — Director
  4. Yojimbo (1961) — Director
  5. Ikiru (1952) — Director
  6. High and Low (1963) — Director
  7. Throne of Blood (1957) — Director
  8. Kagemusha (1980) — Director
  9. Sanjuro (1962) — Director
  10. The Hidden Fortress (1958) — Director
  11. Dersu Uzala (1975) — Director
  12. Dreams (1990) — Director
  13. Red Beard (1965) — Director
  14. Stray Dog (1949) — Director
  15. Drunken Angel (1948) — Director
  16. The Bad Sleep Well (1960) — Director
  17. Dodes'ka-den (1970) — Director
  18. Rhapsody in August (1991) — Director
  19. Sanshiro Sugata (1943) — Director
  20. The Lower Depths (1957) — Director
  21. Madadayo (1993) — Director
  22. The Idiot (1951) — Director
  23. I Live in Fear (1955) — Director
  24. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1952) — Director
  25. Scandal (1950) — Director
  26. One Wonderful Sunday (1947) — Director
  27. The Quiet Duel (1949) — Director
  28. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) — Director
  29. Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945) — Director
  30. The Most Beautiful (1944) — Director
  31. Song of the Horse (1970) — Director
  32. Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. A. K. (1985) — Self
  2. What Is Cinema? (2013) — Self
  3. Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  4. Kurosawa's Way (2011) — Self (archive footage)
  5. A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies (2000) — Self
  6. Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
  7. Kurosawa (2000) — Self
  8. Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema (1993) — Self
  9. Making of 'Dreams' (1990) — Self
  10. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
  11. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' (2002) — Self
  12. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' (2002) — Self
  13. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' (2002) — Self
  14. In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki (1993) — Self
  15. Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
  16. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' (2002) — Self
  17. Making of Ran (1985) — Self
  18. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' (2002) — Self
  19. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' (2002) — Self
  20. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' (2002) — Self
  21. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' (2002) — Self
  22. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' (2002) — Self
  23. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' (2002) — Self
  24. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' (2002) — Self
  25. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' (2002) — Self
  26. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' (2002) — Self
  27. The World of Kazuo Miyagawa (2012) — Self
  28. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' (2002) — Self
  29. Searching For Kurosawa (2025)
  30. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard' (2002) — Self