Akira Kurosawa

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Akira Kurosawa was a pioneering Japanese film director and screenwriter renowned for his influential samurai epics and innovative cinematic techniques that shaped world cinema.

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Akira Kurosawa canonical 22
Akira Kurosawa films 1
Hisao Kurosawa 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film director
film editor
human
producer
screenwriter
activeYearsEnd 1990s
activeYearsStart 1930s
awardReceived Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
surface form: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Honorary Academy Award
surface form: Academy Honorary Award

Golden Lion
Légion d'honneur
surface form: Legion of Honour

Order of Culture
Palme d’Or
surface form: Palme d'Or
causeOfDeath stroke
child Akira Kurosawa self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hisao Kurosawa
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1910-03-23
dateOfDeath 1998-09-06
employer Toho
ethnicGroup Japanese
familyName Akira Kurosawa self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kurosawa
fieldOfWork cinema
screenwriting
genre drama film
jidaigeki
samurai film
givenName Akira
influenced Andrei Tarkovsky
Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas
Martin Scorsese
Roman Polanski
Sergio Leone
Steven Spielberg
influencedBy D. W. Griffith
John Ford
Sergei Eisenstein
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
movement Japanese cinema
name Akira Kurosawa self-link
nativeName Akira Kurosawa self-linksurface differs
surface form: 黒澤 明
notableIdea multi-camera action shooting
use of weather as dramatic device
wiping transitions
notableWork Dersu Uzala
Dodes'ka-den
Dreams
Drunken Angel
High and Low
I Live in Fear
Ikiru
Kagemusha
Madadayo
No Regrets for Our Youth
One Wonderful Sunday
Ran
Rashōmon
surface form: Rashomon

Red Beard
Rhapsody in August
Sanjuro
Scandal
Seven Samurai
Stray Dog
The Bad Sleep Well
The Hidden Fortress
The Idiot
The Lower Depths
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The Quiet Duel
Throne of Blood
Yojimbo
occupation film director
film editor
film producer
screenwriter
placeOfBirth Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan

Tokyo
placeOfDeath Japan
Tokyo
residence Tokyo
sexOrGender male
sibling Heigo Kurosawa
spouse Yōko Yaguchi

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John Ford influenced Akira Kurosawa
BAFTA Fellowship notableRecipient Akira Kurosawa
Spike Lee influencedBy Akira Kurosawa
The Lower Depths adaptedBy Akira Kurosawa
The Magnificent Seven basedOnWorkBy Akira Kurosawa
subject surface form: The Magnificent Seven (1960 film)
Akira Kurosawa name Akira Kurosawa self-link
Akira Kurosawa nativeName Akira Kurosawa self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 黒澤 明
Akira Kurosawa familyName Akira Kurosawa self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa child Akira Kurosawa self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hisao Kurosawa
Sergio Leone influencedBy Akira Kurosawa
Jack Ford influenced Akira Kurosawa
subject surface form: John Ford
John Martin Feeney influenced Akira Kurosawa
Living (2022 film) basedOnWorkBy Akira Kurosawa
Toho notableWork Akira Kurosawa
this entity surface form: Akira Kurosawa films
Toho collaboratedWith Akira Kurosawa
Asahi Prize notableRecipient Akira Kurosawa
Honorary Golden Bear hasRecipient Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto collaboratedWith Akira Kurosawa
William Roberts director Akira Kurosawa
subject surface form: Seven Samurai
The Outrage basedOnWorkBy Akira Kurosawa
A Fistful of Dollars basedOnWorkBy Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa’s film Ran (1985), loosely based on King Lear director Akira Kurosawa
subject surface form: Ran
Akira Kurosawa’s film Ran (1985), loosely based on King Lear screenwriter Akira Kurosawa
subject surface form: Ran
Akira Kurosawa’s film Ran (1985), loosely based on King Lear editedBy Akira Kurosawa
subject surface form: Ran