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Akira Kurosawa


Born
in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
March 23, 1910

Died
September 06, 1998

Website

Genre
Film, Arts & Photography

Influences
Kenji Mizoguchi


Rashomon (1950), The Seven Samurai (1954), and Ran (1985), set in feudal Japan of director Akira Kurosawa, greatly influenced American and European filmmaking.

This producer, screenwriter, and editor, regarded of the most important and influential in the history of cinema, directed thirty in a career, spanning 57 years.

Following a brief stint as a painter, Kurosawa entered the industry in 1936. After years of working as an assistant and scriptwriter, he made his debut in 1943 during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata, also known as Judo Saga. After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshirō Mifune in a starring role, cemented the reputation of t ...more

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Rashomon
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“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
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“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
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“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
― Akira Kurosawa
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