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      Akira Kurosawa

      Akira Kurosawa

      Highest Rated: 100% The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

      Lowest Rated: 57% The Sea Watches (2002)

      Birthday: Mar 23, 1910

      Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

      Akira Kurosawa is unquestionably the best known Japanese filmmaker in the West. This can perhaps be best explained by the fact that he is not so much a Japanese or a Western filmmaker, but that he is a "modern" filmmaker. Like postwar Japan itself, he combines the ancient traditions with a distinctly modern, Western twist.

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      AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS, (aka YUME), director Akira Kurosawa, on set, 1990. ©Warner Bros. YOJIMBO, (aka YOJINBO), from left: Toshiro Mifune, director Akira Kurosawa, on set, 1961 SANJURO, Director Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, 1962 SEVEN SAMURAI, (aka SHICHININ NO SAMURAI), from left: Toshiro Mifune, director Akira Kurosawa, on set, 1954 YOJIMBO, (aka YOJINBO), from left: Toshiro Mifune, director Akira Kuroswa, on set, 1961 RED BEARD, (aka AKAHIGE), from left: director Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, on set, 1965 YOJIMBO, (aka YOJINBO), from left: Toshiro Mifune, director Akira Kurosawa, on set, 1961
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess Writer - 2008
      57% 71% The Sea Watches Writer - 2002
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Doraheita Writer - 2000
      No Score Yet 86% After the Rain Writer - 1999
      87% 81% Madadayo Director,
      Screenwriter       		$48.9K 1993
      60% 74% Rhapsody in August Director - 1991
      67% 86% Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Director,
      Screenwriter       		$1.7M 1990
      96% 95% Ran Director,
      Writer,
      Film Editing       		$454.0K 1985
      89% 92% Kagemusha Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1980
      73% 94% Dersu Uzala Director,
      Writer       		- 1975
      73% 77% Dodes 'Ka-Den Director,
      Writer,
      Executive Producer,
      Producer       		- 1970
      75% 95% Red Beard Director,
      Writer       		- 1965
      96% 95% High and Low Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1963
      100% 95% Sanjuro Director,
      Writer,
      Film Editing       		- 1962
      96% 96% Yojimbo Director,
      Writer,
      Producer,
      Film Editing       		- 1961
      100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well Director,
      Writer,
      Producer,
      Film Editing       		- 1960
      96% 92% The Hidden Fortress Director,
      Writer,
      Producer,
      Film Editing       		- 1958
      96% 94% Throne of Blood Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer,
      Film Editing       		- 1957
      83% 79% The Lower Depths Director - 1957
      75% 76% I Live in Fear Director,
      Writer       		- 1955
      100% 97% Seven Samurai Director,
      Writer,
      Film Editing       		$271.7K 1954
      98% 97% Ikiru Director,
      Screenwriter       		$55.2K 1952
      No Score Yet 60% Vendetta of a Samurai Screenwriter - 1952
      64% 73% The Idiot Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Film Editing       		- 1951
      88% 72% Scandal Director - 1950
      98% 93% Rashomon Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Film Editing       		- 1950
      No Score Yet No Score Yet In The Woods Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1950
      96% 91% Stray Dog Director,
      Writer,
      Associate Producer       		- 1949
      No Score Yet 73% The Quiet Duel Director,
      Writer       		- 1949
      94% 89% Drunken Angel Director,
      Writer       		- 1948
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Yoidore Tenshi Director - 1948
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Portrait Screenwriter - 1948
      88% 75% One Wonderful Sunday Director - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Snow Trail Screenwriter - 1947
      100% 73% No Regrets for Our Youth Director - 1946
      No Score Yet 39% Judo Saga II Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Film Editing       		- 1945
      88% 58% The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail Director,
      Writer       		- 1945
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Sanshiro Sugata II Director,
      Writer       		- 1945
      No Score Yet 28% The Most Beautiful Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1944
      80% 65% Sanshiro Sugata Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Horse Film Editing - 1941