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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, w…
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entertainment · Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998) · film director · film producer · screenwriter · film editor · writer · director · producer · painter · film screenwriter · also Akira Kurosawa, Kurosawa Akira, Kurosawa
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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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A project called AK100 was launched in 2008
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“Akira Kurosawa as quoted in Kamiski, Michael (2007). The Secret History of Star Wars(PDF). p. 48. Retrieved 2011-01-31.”
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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“È quello che dico sempre alle équipe dei miei film. Per creare qualcosa, bisogna basarsi sui ricordi...”
“Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”
“Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”
“Po bandytach ani śladu, a my musimy karmić tych żarłocznych samurajów. Ponosimy straty.”
“Każdy dobry fort musi mieć lukę, która zwabi wroga.”
“A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.”
“I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.”
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
“Człowiek rodzi się, płacząc. Kiedy już się wypłacze, umiera.”
“Kurosawa è un compendio vivo di culture diverse, di «sogni» disparati ma convergenti, di dolori e allucinazioni che colpiscono tutti gli uomini, ovunque (la guerra in primo luogo, e il Giappone ha subito la «bomba», e nella «bomba» Kurosawa racchiude tutto l'orrore della guerra). Probabilmente, per questo egli è il più giapponese dei registi. (Fernaldo Di Giammatteo)”
“Se puede morir tranquilo si uno ha cumplido su vocación.”
“Prima della guerra, quando i venditori itineranti di rimedi e panacee fatte in casa battevano ancora la campagna, avevano una filastrocca tradizionale per fare pubblicità a una pozione che si diceva efficacissima nella cura di tagli e bruciature.”
“Los seres humanos son incapaces de ser honestos acerca de ellos mismos. No pueden hablar de sí mismos sin embellecerse.”
“Yaratıcısı hakkında bir çalışmanın kendisinden fazla hiçbir şey daha açıklayıcı olamaz.”
“Las películas no son planas, son esferas multifacéticas.”
“İnsanoğu kendi başına kendisi hakkında dürüst olamaz. Kendileri hakkında, süslemeler yapmaksızın konuşamaz.”
“Estoy convencido de que la exposición sincera de una verdad íntima hace vibrar siempre la sensibilidad del público.”
“İnsanlar kendileri hakkında konuşurken tümüyle dürüst olamazlarsa da, kendilerini başkalarının yerine koyduklarında gerçekten kaçınmaları çok daha zordur.”
“Voir le recueil de citations : Les Sept Samouraïs”
“En un mundo loco, sólo los locos están cuerdos.”
“[Hayao Miyazaki] Talvolta lo paragonano a me. Mi dispiace per lui perché lo abbassano di livello.”
“El hombre es un genio cuando se está soñando.”
“Çılgın bir dünyada sadece çılgınların aklı başındadır!”
“On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79”
“Gli esseri umani non sono in grado di essere onesti con se stessi su se stessi. Non riescono a parlare di se stessi senza farne un romanzo. Questa sceneggiatura [Rashomon] ne è un ritratto.”
“Bir film, sade kişileri eğlendirirken aynı zamanda engin düşünceli kimseler için de sofistike olmalı. Gerçekten iyi bir film keyif de verir. Bu konuda karmaşık olan bir şey yok. İyi bir film ilgi çekicidir ve anlaşılması kolaydır.”
Slipped and broke the base of his spine
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Was greeted by an even more disappointed reaction than had been the case with his two preceding works
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1992).
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“Rapsodia in agosto (1991)”
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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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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Awarded Order of Culture (1985).
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“A 30 secondi dalla fine (1985) – soggetto”
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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“Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982)”
Awarded Nastro d'argento for best non-Italian film 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 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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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Kagemusha (1981).
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director for Kagemusha (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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“Akira Kurosawa Something Like an Autobiography (1981)”
The Kurosawa Film Studio was opened in Yokohama; two additional locations have since been launched in Japan
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Awarded Hōchi Film Award for Best Picture for Kagemusha (1980).
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Awarded Palme d'Or 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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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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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1976).
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“Dersu Uzala - Il piccolo uomo delle grandi pianure (1975)”
Slit his wrists and throat multiple times
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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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Awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award (1965).
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Awarded Asahi Prize (1965).
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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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Quickly surpassing Yojimbo's box office success and garnering positive reviews
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Awarded FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes 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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Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for The Hidden Fortress (1959).
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Continues to oversee many of the aspects of Kurosawa's legacy
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“La fortezza nascosta (1958)”
And released in January 1957 to a slightly less negative domestic response than the director's previous film
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“Testimonianza di un essere vivente (1955)”
Earned Silver Lion for Seven Samurai (1954).
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Nuclear tests in the Pacific were believed to be causing radioactive rainstorms in Japan, and one specific boat near the Marshall Islands incident was exposed to nuclear fallout, with harmful results
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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 Kinema Junpo Award for Ikiru (1953).
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Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Film for Ikiru (1953).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Screenplay for Ikiru (1953).
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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 up on August 17
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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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“Il duello silenzioso (1949)”
Awarded Mainichi Film Award for Best Director for One Wonderful Sunday (1948).
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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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Kurosawa searched for a story he could use to launch his directing career
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The new film studio Photo Chemical Laboratories, known as P
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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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