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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as a hands-on filmmaker, he was heavily involved with all aspects of production as a director, writer, producer, and editor.
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Born 23 March 1910 · Died 6 September 1998 · Q8006
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202614 items
Crime Reads: Filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Her New Locked Room Mystery, 'The Samurai and The Prisoner'
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inlander.com: Kiyoshi Kurosawa takes his cue from the legendary Akira Kurosawa with the subdued historical epic The Samurai and the Prisoner
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thecurb.com.au: Kiyoshi Kurosawa and power of the unseen
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JoySauce: Kiyoshi Kurosawa is more than a horror director
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Kotaku en Español: La primera epopeya samurái de Kiyoshi Kurosawa ofrece una filosofía alternativa al viaje condenado de Odyssey
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Kotaku: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s First Samurai Epic Offers An Alternative To The Doomed Voyage In Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
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Slant Magazine: Interview: Kurosawa Kiyoshi on the Universal Resonance of ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’
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thefilmstage.com: See the Invisible Become Visible: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on The Samurai and the Prisoner
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Culturamas: Akira Kurosawa y Shakespeare: cuando el silencio sustituyó al verso
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keithlovesmovies.com: The Samurai and the Prisoner: Kurosawa’s Samurai Adventure
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The Globe and Mail: The Samurai and the Prisoner offers richly rewarding mystery worthy of Kurosawa’s bloody throne
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Boston Herald: Kurosawa breaks from tradition with ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’
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IMDb: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Discusses The Samurai and the Prisoner, Masaki Suda and His First Jidaigeki
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20171 item
Plans to produce a film of Kurosawa's posthumous screenplay of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe for 2020, to be entitled The Mask of the Black Death
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20101 item
A project called AK100 was launched in 2008
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19994 items
A poll of Japanese film critics also voted it the best Japanese film ever made
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Opening four restaurants in the Tokyo area bearing the family name
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And The Sea Is Watching, directed by Kei Kumai, premiered in 2002
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Was named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as "one of the [five] people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years"
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Died 1998-09-06.
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At the age of 88, he died of a stroke in Tokyo's Setagaya ward
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Awarded People's Honour Award (1998).
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19951 item
Slipped and broke the base of his spine
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19931 item
Was greeted by an even more disappointed reaction than had been the case with his two preceding works
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19921 item
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1992).
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19903 items
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1990).
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Accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Kurosawa accepted the Academy Honorary Award
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19862 items
Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director for Ran (1986).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1986).
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19851 item
Awarded Order of Culture (1985).
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19841 item
And a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1986, and he was the first filmmaker to receive the Order of Culture from his native Japan in 1985
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19819 items
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian film for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1981).
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Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Film for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Director for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded César Award for Best Foreign Film for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film for Kagemusha (1981).
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The Kurosawa Film Studio was opened in Yokohama; two additional locations have since been launched in Japan
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19802 items
Awarded Palme d'Or for Kagemusha (1980).
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Awarded Hōchi Film Award for Best Picture for Kagemusha (1980).
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Awarded Prize of the French Critics' Union/Best Australian Film for Dersu Uzala (1978).
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19773 items
Awarded Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian film for Dersu Uzala (1977).
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director for Dersu Uzala (1977).
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George Lucas released Star Wars, a wildly successful science fiction film influenced by Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress
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19761 item
Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1976).
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19711 item
Slit his wrists and throat multiple times
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19663 items
Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Film for Red Beard (1966).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film for Red Beard (1966).
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The 56-year-old director was seriously contemplating change
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19652 items
Awarded Asahi Prize (1965).
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Awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award (1965).
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19642 items
Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Film for High and Low (1964).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for High and Low (1964).
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19621 item
Quickly surpassing Yojimbo's box office success and garnering positive reviews
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19594 items
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for The Hidden Fortress (1959).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film for The Hidden Fortress (1959).
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Awarded FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes for The Hidden Fortress (1959).
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Continues to oversee many of the aspects of Kurosawa's legacy
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19561 item
And released in January 1957 to a slightly less negative domestic response than the director's previous film
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19542 items
Earned Silver Lion for Seven Samurai (1954).
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Nuclear tests in the Pacific were causing radioactive rainstorms in Japan, and one particular incident in March had exposed a Japanese fishing boat to nuclear fallout, with disastrous results
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Ikiru (1953).
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Awarded Kinema Junpo Award for Ikiru (1953).
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Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Film for Ikiru (1953).
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19513 items
Rashomon was awarded the festival's highest prize, the Golden Lion, shocking not only Daiei but the international film world, which at the time was largely unaware of Japan's decades-old cinematic tradition
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Awarded National Board of Review Awards 1951 for Rashomon (1951).
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Won Golden Lion for Rashomon (1951).
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And, after extensive location work in the primeval forest of Nara, wrapped on August 17
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Rashomon (1950).
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Awarded Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year for Drunken Angel (1949).
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Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Film for Drunken Angel (1949).
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Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Director for One Wonderful Sunday (1948).
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19471 item
With Kurosawa's involvement was the action-adventure thriller, Snow Trail, directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from Kurosawa's screenplay
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With Yaguchi two months pregnant (she never resumed her acting career), and the couple would remain together until her death in 1985
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19411 item
Kurosawa searched for a story he could use to launch his directing career
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19351 item
The new film studio Photo Chemical Laboratories, known as P
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19102 items
In Ōi Town, Ebara County (now Higashi-Ōi in the Shinagawa ward of Tokyo)
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Born 1910-03-23.
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19001 item
Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples.
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