Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (?? ? Kurosawa Akira, also ?? ?) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics.

Early Career

Kurosawa was born March 23, 1910, in Omori, Tokyo, the youngest of seven children. He trained as a painter and began work in the film industry as an assistant director in 1936. He made his directorial debut in 1943 with Sugata Sanshiro. His first few films were made under the watchful eye of the wartime Japanese government and sometimes contained nationalistic themes. For instance The Most Beautiful is a propaganda film about Japanese women working in an armaments factory. Judo Saga 2 is explicitly anti-American and depicts the superiority of Japanese judo over American boxing . His first post-war film No regrets for our youth, by contrast, is critical of the old Japanese regime and is about the wife of a left-wing dissident arrested for his political leanings. Kurosawa made several more films which deal with contemporary Japan, most notably Drunken Angel and Stray Dog. However it was a period film Rashomon which made him internationally famous and won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival.

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March 23 - 1910 - Omori - Tokyo - Drunken Angel - Stray Dog - Rashomon - Venice Film Festival

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