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Birth Name: 黒澤 明

Born: 23 March 1910 Died: 6 September 1998

Country of origin: Japan

Height: 6' 0"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Yôko Yaguchi


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Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 items)
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Awesome People Hanging Out Together (46 items)
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Directors:The Filmography of... (207 items)
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Directors and Their Masterpieces (55 items)
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Directors' Favorite Actors/Actresses (94 items)
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Published 7 years, 1 month ago 14 comments

Akira Kurosawa Videos

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement

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Akira Kurosawa interview

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Description: Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. 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 in 1943, 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 ... (more)
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Movies written by

Most popular
Top rated
Most recent
1. Seven Samurai (1954)
Rating:
8.6
1542 Watched
2. Rashomon (1950)
Rating:
8.2
1047 Watched
3. Ran (1985)
Rating:
8.3
714 Watched
4. Yojimbo (1961)
Rating:
8.2
626 Watched
5. Ikiru (1952)
Rating:
8.5
529 Watched




Movies directed by

Most popular
Top rated
Most recent
1. Seven Samurai (1954)
Rating:
8.6
1542 Watched
2. Rashomon (1950)
Rating:
8.2
1047 Watched
3. Ran (1985)
Rating:
8.3
714 Watched
4. Yojimbo (1961)
Rating:
8.2
626 Watched
5. Ikiru (1952)
Rating:
8.5
529 Watched




TV written by

1. Samurai 7 (2004)
Rating:
7.1
96 Watched




TV

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Rating:
7.2
35 Watched
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8.1
21 Watched
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9.1
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8.3
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9.1
8 Watched




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1. A.K. (1985)
Rating:
7.7
22 Watched
Rating:
7.2
7 want to see
3. What Is Cinema? (2013)
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5.7
4 Watched
Rating:
10
1 Watched




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Movies: Greatest Directors (62 person items)

"Seven Samurai (1954) Throne of Blood (1957) The Hidden Fortress (1958) Yojimbo (1961) Sanjuro (1962) Kagemusha (1980) Ran (1985)"


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Favourite Filmmakers (12 movies items)

" Films Seen: High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) - 9/10 The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru ketto) - 9/10 Stray Dog (Nora inu) - 8/10 (羅生門 - Rashōmon) - 8/10 Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) - 8/10 Yojimbo - 8/10 Ikiru - 8/10 The Hidden Fortress - 8/10 Ran - 8/10 Throne of Blood - 8/10 I Live in Fear : Record of a Living Being - 8/10 Sanjuro (椿三十郎 / Tsubaki Sanjûrô)- 7/10 七人の侍 - Shichinin no Samurai - 7/10 The Bad Sleep Well - 7/10 "


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Directores Favoritos (59 person items)
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In Praise of Andrei Tarkovsky (8 person items)

" "Marvelous progress in science we have been enjoying, but where will it lead humanity after all? Sheer fearful emotion this film succeeds in conjuring up in our soul. Without it, a science fiction movie would be nothing more than a petty fancy. These thoughts came and went while I was gazing at the screen. Tarkovsky was together with me then. He was at the corner of the studio. When the film was over, he stood up, looking at me as if he felt timid. I said to him, “Very good. It makes me fe"


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Famous Birthdays: March (86 person items)
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Famous Figures: Asia (20 person items)
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Famous Figures: Other (43 person items)
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Influences (127 person items)
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imdb's Names from 001 to 100 (100 person items)

"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/"


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Directors' Favorite Actors/Actresses (94 person items)

"Takashi Shimura - Judo Saga - The Most Beautiful - The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail - Those Who Make Tomorrow - No Regrets for My Youth - Drunken Angel - A Silent Duel - Stray Dog - Scandal - Rashomon - The Idiot - Doomed - Seven Samurai - I Live in Fear - Throne of Blood - The Hidden Fortress - The Bad Sleep Well - Yojimbo - Sanjuro - Heaven and Hell - Red Beard - Kagemusha Susumu Fujita - Judo Saga - The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail - Judo Saga II - Those"


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Directors - ranked&rated (22 person items)

"1. Seven Samurai 10/10 2. Rashomon 9/10 3. High and Low 8.5/10 4. Ikiru 8.5/10 5. Yojimbo 8/10 8.8"


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Directors - ranked&rated (22 person items)

"1. Seven Samurai 10/10 2. Rashomon 9/10 3. High and Low 8.5/10 4. Ikiru 8.5/10 5. Yojimbo 8/10 8.8"


InTheWitheringWind added this to a list 7 years, 10 months ago
Favorite Person (111 person items)
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Favorite directors, 3 masterpieces of each one (89 person items)

"RashomonIkiruSeven Samurai"


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Directors I Regard Highly (15 person items)

" Favorite Film Seen (30) One Wonderful Sunday - 9/10 Ikiru - 8/10 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail - 8/10 Seven Samurai - 8/10 Madadayo - 8/10 Ran - 8/10 Dodes'ka-den - 8/10 Drunken Angel - 8/10 I Live in Fear - 8/10 Dreams - 8/10 Rhapsody in August - 8/10 High and Low - 7/10 The Idiot - 7/10 The Lower Depths - 7/10 Red Beard - 7/10 Sanjuro - 7/10 No Regrets for Our Youth - 7/10 Kagemusha - 7/10 Rashomon - 7/10 Yojimbo - 7/10 Throne of Blood - 6/10 Scandal - 6/10 The Hidden Fortress - 6/"


Jon added this to a list 8 years, 2 months ago
My favourite directors (55 person items)
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Best Directors (33 person items)
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100 Greatest Filmmakers of All Time (100 person items)

"Japanese Major Works: Seven Samurai (1954) Rashomon (1950) Yojimbo (1961) • Director, Writer, Producer, Editor. •"


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Influences (127 person items)

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