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
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess | Writer | - | 2008 |
57% |
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The Sea Watches | Writer | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doraheita | Writer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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After the Rain | Writer | - | 1999 |
87% |
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Madadayo |
Director, Screenwriter |
$48.9K | 1993 |
60% |
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Rhapsody in August | Director | - | 1991 |
67% |
|
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams |
Director, Screenwriter |
$1.7M | 1990 |
96% |
|
Ran |
Director, Writer, Film Editing |
$454.0K | 1985 |
89% |
|
Kagemusha |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1980 |
73% |
|
Dersu Uzala |
Director, Writer |
- | 1975 |
73% |
|
Dodes 'Ka-Den |
Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Producer |
- | 1970 |
75% |
|
Red Beard |
Director, Writer |
- | 1965 |
96% |
|
High and Low |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1963 |
100% |
|
Sanjuro |
Director, Writer, Film Editing |
- | 1962 |
96% |
|
Yojimbo |
Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1961 |
100% |
|
The Bad Sleep Well |
Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1960 |
96% |
|
The Hidden Fortress |
Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1958 |
96% |
|
Throne of Blood |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1957 |
83% |
|
The Lower Depths | Director | - | 1957 |
75% |
|
I Live in Fear |
Director, Writer |
- | 1955 |
100% |
|
Seven Samurai |
Director, Writer, Film Editing |
$460.0K | 1954 |
98% |
|
Ikiru |
Director, Screenwriter |
$55.2K | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Vendetta of a Samurai | Screenwriter | - | 1952 |
64% |
|
The Idiot |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1951 |
88% |
|
Scandal | Director | - | 1950 |
98% |
|
Rashomon |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In The Woods |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1950 |
96% |
|
Stray Dog |
Director, Writer, Associate Producer |
- | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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The Quiet Duel |
Director, Writer |
- | 1949 |
94% |
|
Drunken Angel |
Director, Writer |
- | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Portrait | Screenwriter | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yoidore Tenshi | Director | - | 1948 |
88% |
|
One Wonderful Sunday | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snow Trail | Screenwriter | - | 1947 |
100% |
|
No Regrets for Our Youth |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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Judo Saga II |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1945 |
88% |
|
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 |
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The Most Beautiful |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1944 |
80% |
|
Sanshiro Sugata |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Horse | Film Editing | - | 1941 |