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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 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.
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.
Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) [a] is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune , Machiko Kyō , Masayuki Mori , and Takashi Shimura , it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest.
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 ...
Regarding Kurosawa's reflections on the theme of cycles of violence, these found a beginning with Throne of Blood (1957), and became nearly an obsession with historical cycles of inexorable savage violence—what Stephen Prince calls "the countertradition to the committed, heroic mode of Kurosawa's cinema" [3] which Kurosawa would sustain as a ...
The information in the table is derived from the IMDb Akira Kurosawa awards page [1] and the IMDb awards pages for the individual films, supplemented by the filmography by Kurosawa’s biographer, Stuart Galbraith IV, [2] unless otherwise noted. Key: (NK) = Not known; (P) = Posthumous award
A list of books and essays about Akira Kurosawa: Erens, Patricia (1979). Akira Kurosawa: a guide to references and resources. G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-7994-7. Kurosawa, Akira (2008). Akira Kurosawa: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-997-2. Nogami, Teruyo (2006). Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa.