Akira Kurosawa

Wiki jphttps://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wiki enhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AkiraKurosawa Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director screenwriter and producer regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936 following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata a.k.a. Judo Saga. After the war the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel 1948 in which Kurosawa cast the then littleknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role cemented the directors reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films. Rashomon which premiered in Tokyo became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s including a number of highly regarded and often adapted films such as Ikiru 1952 Seven Samurai 1954 and Yojimbo 1961. After the 1960s he became much less prolific even so his later workincluding his final two epics Kagemusha 1980 and Ran 1985continued to win awards though more often abroad than in Japan. Source: Wikipedia