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  1. Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 or 黒沢明, Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema .

  2. 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), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961) and High and Low (1963).

  3. Featuring twenty-five of the films he made over the course of his fifty years in movies—from samurai epics to postwar noirs to Shakespeare adaptations—AK 100 is the most complete set of his works ever released in this country, and includes four rare films that have never been available on DVD. Films In This Set. 1943.

  4. 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...

  5. May 10, 2024 · Kurosawa Akira (born March 23, 1910, Tokyo, Japan—died September 6, 1998, Tokyo) was the first Japanese film director to win international acclaim, with such films as Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). Early life

  6. Explore more than 1,500 films on the Criterion Channel, with filters for genre, decade, country, and director. The Criterion Channel. Toggle Menu. Now Playing ... Akira Kurosawa Japan, 1945 The Most Beautiful Akira Kurosawa Japan, 1944 No Regrets for Our Youth Akira Kurosawa Japan, 1946 One Wonderful Sunday Akira Kurosawa Japan, ...

  7. Feb 20, 2020 · All 30 Akira Kurosawa Movies Ranked From Worst To Best. Posted on February 20, 2020 by Patrick Galvan. In 1942, the respected Japanese screenwriter and director Mansaku Itami read a movie script titled A German at Daruma Temple. It had been rejected for filming by Japan’s wartime censors, so it was published in a journal, but Itami was ...

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