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Kurosawa (written: 黒沢 or 黒澤 lit. "black swamp") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998), Japanese filmmaker and painter
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly.
' black river ') is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Atsushi Kurokawa (黒川 淳史, born 1998), Japanese footballer; Eiji Kurokawa (黒河 影次), an alias used by Shōji Kawamori (born 1960), Japanese anime producer; Hideaki Kurokawa (黒川 秀明, born 1944), Japanese ice hockey player
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明, 1910–1998), Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter; Akira Machida (町田 顯, 1936–2015), head of the Japanese Supreme Court; Akira Maeda (前田 日明, born 1959), wrestler; Akira Masuda (増田 章, born 1962), Japanese karate practitioner; Akira Mitake (見岳 章, born 1956), Japanese composer
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Kurosawa may also refer to: Kurosawa (crater), an impact crater on Mercury; Kurosawa (surname), a Japanese surname; Kurosawa Film Studio, a Japanese film studio; 254749 Kurosawa, a main-belt asteroid; Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a Japanese film director and screenwriter
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]
The meaning of the name differs based on the kanji used to write it. ... Ryo Kurosawa, Battle Royale II character; Ryo Kuroyanagi, Yakitate!! Japan character;