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    Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker who created 30 films of his own as well as occasionally...
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  • works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete...
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  • also known as Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, is a 1990 magical realist anthology film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Inspired by...
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    known for his 16 collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa. These collaborations included Kurosawa's critically acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon...
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  • about Akira Kurosawa: Erens, Patricia (1979). Akira Kurosawa: a guide to references and resources. G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-7994-7. Kurosawa, Akira (2008)...
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  • based on an original 1960s screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, with uncredited contributions by frequent Kurosawa collaborators Hideo Oguni and Ryūzō Kikushima...
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    Yojimbo (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Yōjinbō, lit. Bodyguard) is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The...
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    Seven Samurai (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni...
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  • A number of Akira Kurosawa's films have been remade. Note: This list includes full remakes only; it does not include films whose narratives have been loosely...
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    retired from filmmaking. However, Honda's former colleague and friend, Akira Kurosawa, would persuade him to come out of retirement in the late 1970s and...
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    羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro...
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  • Achievement in Costume Design. She is the daughter of famous filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and actress Yōko Yaguchi, her son is actor Takayuki Kato. She is married...
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  • The films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa have had a far-reaching impact on cinema and how it is produced, both within Japan and internationally. As...
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    The legacy of filmmaking technique left by Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) for subsequent generations of filmmakers has been diverse and of international influence...
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  • Kurosawa (written: 黒沢 or 黒澤 lit. "black swamp") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998), Japanese filmmaker...
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    Akira Kurosawa. The list represents three categories of film awards or honors: Best Film awards given to a Kurosawa-directed film, whether Kurosawa directly...
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  • High and Low (1963 film) (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Japanese police procedural crime film directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, and Ryūzō Kikushima as a...
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  • Ran (film) (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    epic historical action drama film directed, co-written, and edited by Akira Kurosawa. The plot derives from William Shakespeare's King Lear and includes...
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    Throne of Blood (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Japanese jidaigeki film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot...
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    Drunken Angel (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. It is notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune...
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  • 2004 anime television series produced by Gonzo and based on the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai. The seven samurai have the same names and similar...
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  • Dersu Uzala (1975 film) (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Soviet-Japanese biographical adventure drama film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, his only non-Japanese-language film and his only 70mm film. The film...
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  • of Akira Kurosawa is a 1965 academic book by Donald Richie, published by University of California Press. It discusses the films of Akira Kurosawa. This...
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    Akira Kurosawa which was short-lived due to Hayasaka's early death. The 1948 film Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) was the first film directed by Akira...
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  • Kagemusha (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Kagemusha (影武者, Shadow Warrior) is a 1980 epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story...
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    The Hidden Fortress (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Fortress') is a 1958 Japanese jidaigeki adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It tells the story of two peasants...
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    epics tended to portray psychologically or physically scarred warriors. Akira Kurosawa stylized and exaggerated death and violence in samurai epics. His samurai...
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    The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    Otokotachi) is a 1945 Japanese period drama film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on the kabuki play Kanjinchō, which is in turn based on the Noh...
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    The Magnificent Seven (category Films based on works by Akira Kurosawa)
    credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the...
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    The Most Beautiful (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The semidocumentary film follows a group of female volunteer workers...
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