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The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director), as well as his little-known contributions to theater, television and literature.
Mainichi Film Concours Mainichi Shimbun Japan Film, Directing Ran: 1986 Golden Jubilee Award Directors Guild of America: USA Career - 1986 Akira Kurosawa Award [note 3] San Francisco International Film Festival: USA Career - 1987 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA UK Film: Ran: 1987 ALFS Award London Film Critics' Circle: UK Film, Directing Ran: 1989 ...
Akira Iwasaki later cited how he and his contemporaries were "impressed by the boldness and excellence of director Akira Kurosawa's experimental approach within this movie, but couldn't help but notice that there was some confusion in its expression" adding that "I found it difficult to resonate with the agnostic philosophy that the film ...
Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910, [3] in Ōimachi in the Ōmori district of Tokyo. His father Isamu (1864–1948), a member of a samurai family from Akita Prefecture, worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education Institute's lower secondary school, while his mother Shima (1870–1952) came from a merchant's family living in Osaka. [4]
Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese tragedy film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning.
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Prior to the publication of this book, there was only one other scholarly book work, The Films of Akira Kurosawa, chronicling the whole collection of Kurosawa's works. [1] An updated version detailing Kurosawa's late period making films was released after the director's death in 2005.