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It was Japan's third-highest-grossing film of 1954, out-grossing Godzilla, [38] which had sold 9.7 million tickets [39] and grossed an inflation-adjusted equivalent of ¥13.7 billion or $105,000,000 (equivalent to $196,000,000 in 2023) by 1998.
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.
The Hollywood film 47 Ronin by Universal is a fantasy epic with Keanu Reeves as an Anglo-Japanese who joins the samurai in their quest for vengeance against Lord Kira who is aided by a shape-shifting witch, and co-stars many prominent Japanese actors including Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Kō Shibasaki, Rinko Kikuchi, Jin Akanishi, and Togo ...
A number of Akira Kurosawa's films have been remade.. Note: This list includes full remakes only; it does not include films whose narratives have been loosely inspired by the basic plot of one or more of the director's films – as A Bug's Life (1998) references both Seven Samurai (1954) and its Hollywood remake The Magnificent Seven (1960) – nor movies that adopt, adapt, or parody ...
Samurai I (1954) Samurai II (1955) Samurai III (1956) Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjūrō) (1962) Sanshiro Sugata (1943) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) A Scene at the Sea (1991) The Sea Is Watching (2002) Seven Samurai (1954) Shall We Dance? (1996) Shiki-Jitsu (2000) Shimotsuma Monogatari (aka Kamikaze Girls) (2004) Sky High (2003) Son of Godzilla (1967 ...
AKA Gojira; directed by Ishirō Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya; the first Godzilla film made by Toho, which became Toho's longest-running film series; Godzilla was released in the US in 1956, dubbed in English and heavily re-edited into the film known as Godzilla: King of the Monsters!
Hiroaki Sato (佐藤 紘彰, Satō Hiroaki, born 1942) is a Japanese poet and prolific translator who writes frequently for The Japan Times.He has been called (by Gary Snyder) "perhaps the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English". [1]
In a retrospective look at the film Michael Wood writing for the London Review of Books found the film to span several genres and compared it to other western and samurai films from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, such as Seven Samurai, A Fistful of Dollars, High Noon, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Rashomon, stating, "(The film contains) comedy, satire ...