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Akira Kurosawa

Life Time 23 March 1910 - 6 September 1998
Writer 79 1941 - 2025 #22
Director 35 1941 - 1993 #38
Producer 11 1949 - 1980 #737
Guest 13 1970 - 2014 #14172
Actor 11 1970 - 2020 #147457
Entire filmography 98 1941 - 2025 #39
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Deservedly considered one of the brightest representatives of the humanistic direction of film art of the twentieth century, who managed to combine traditional Russian and Western styles in his work, Akira Kurosawa was born in 1910 in Tokyo. Feeling an interest in painting, in 1927 Akira Kurosawa became a student of the Dosusya School of Painting. However, the fascination with cinema was stronger. Since 1936, Akiro Kurosawa has gained his first cinematic experience, working as an assistant director more
Deservedly considered one of the brightest representatives of the humanistic direction of film art of the twentieth century, who managed to combine traditional Russian and Western styles in his work, Akira Kurosawa was born in 1910 in Tokyo.

Feeling an interest in painting, in 1927 Akira Kurosawa became a student of the Dosusya School of Painting. However, the fascination with cinema was stronger. Since 1936, Akiro Kurosawa has gained his first cinematic experience, working as an assistant director at a film studio. His first full-length work was Sugata Sanziro or the Legend of the Great Master of Judo, which was a great success for the audience. Follow-up work - "Drunk Angel" and "Rasemon" - brought the director world fame, and Rasemon was even awarded several awards - the Grand Prix of the Venice Festival and the Oscar for best foreign film.

The multifaceted talent of Akir Kurosawa was embodied in subsequent works. "Heaven and Hell" "Shadow of the Warrior," "Idiot" , which brought the director the love of the audience and numerous cinematic awards. /

Film festival nominations and awards (4)

Oscar 1990

Honorary oscar

Oscar 1986

Best director
Ran

British Film Academy 1981

Best director
Kagemusha

Berlin Film Festival 1959

Silver bear for best directorial performance
The Hidden Fortress
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Filmography (97)

Rashomon, 1950
Rashomon,  1950
7.96 92918
average of
26602 rates
IMDb8.2 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Drama Crime
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Machiko Kyo Masayuki Mori Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Kichijiro Ueda Noriko Honma Daisuke Kato Leslie Daniels
Ran, 1985
Ran,  1985
7.84 59459
average of
9391 rates
IMDb8.2 
Countries:  Japan France
Genres:  Action Drama War
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryu Mieko Harada Yoshiko Miyazaki Hisashi Igawa Peter Masayuki Yui Kazuo Kato
Seven Samurai, 1954
Seven Samurai,  1954
Shichinin no samurai
8.09 174062
average of
38248 rates
IMDb8.6 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Drama Action
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Tsushima Yukiko Shimazaki Kamatari Fujiwara Daisuke Kato Isao Kimura Minoru Chiaki Seiji Miyaguchi Yoshio Kosugi
Kagemusha, 1980
Kagemusha,  1980
7.71 16879
average of
3446 rates
IMDb7.9 
Countries:  Japan USA
Genres:  War History Action Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Tatsuya Nakadai Tsutomu Yamazaki Kenichi Hagiwara Jinpachi Nezu Hideji Otaki Daisuke Ryu Masayuki Yui Kaori Momoi Mitsuko Baisho Hideo Murata
Dersu Uzala, 1975
Dersu Uzala,  1975
Дерсу Узала
8.23 24265
average of
12055 rates
IMDb8.2 
Countries:  USSR Japan
Genres:  Drama Adventure Biography
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Maksim Munzuk Uriy Solomin Vladimir Kremena Aleksandr Pyatkov Svetlana Danilchenko Dmitriy Korshikov Suymenkul Chokmorov Mihail Bychkov V. Lastochkin Stanislav Marin
Yojimbo, 1961
Yojimbo,  1961
Yojinbo
7.99 58832
average of
11772 rates
IMDb8.2 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Action Thriller Drama Crime
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Yôko Tsukasa Isuzu Yamada Daisuke Kato Seizaburô Kawazu Takashi Shimura Hiroshi Tachikawa Yosuke Natsuki Eijiro Tono
Ikiru, 1952
Ikiru,  1952
8.08 41412
average of
8274 rates
IMDb8.3 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Takashi Shimura Shinichi Himori Haruo Tanaka Minoru Chiaki Miki Odagiri Bokuzen Hidari Minosuke Yamada Kamatari Fujiwara Makoto Kobori Nobuo Kaneko
High and Low, 1963
High and Low,  1963
Tengoku to jigoku
8.05 25603
average of
4855 rates
IMDb8.4 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Thriller Drama Crime Detective
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Tsutomu Yamazaki Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Isao Kimura Kenjiro Ishiyama Takeshi Kato Takashi Shimura Jun Tazaki
Red Beard, 1965
Red Beard,  1965
Akahige
8.24 11341
average of
3804 rates
IMDb8.3 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Yuzo Kayama Tsutomu Yamazaki Reiko Dan Miyuki Kuwano Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuyoshi Ehara Terumi Niki Akemi Negishi Yoshitaka Zushi
Throne of Blood, 1957
Throne of Blood,  1957
Kumonosu-jo
7.78 23731
average of
4083 rates
IMDb8.0 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Drama History
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Akira Kubo Hiroshi Tachikawa Minoru Chiaki Takamaru Sasaki Gen Shimizu Kokuten Kodo Kichijiro Ueda
The Hidden Fortress, 1958
The Hidden Fortress,  1958
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
7.83 17870
average of
3082 rates
IMDb8.0 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Action Drama Adventure
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura Misa Uehara Eiko Miyoshi Toshiko Higuchi Yu Fujiki Yoshio Tsuchiya
The Magnificen t Seven, 1960
The Magnificent Seven,  1960
7.75 50046
average of
12615 rates
IMDb7.7 
Country:  USA
Genres:  Western Action
Director:  John Sturges
Cast :  Yul Brynner Steve McQueen Charles Bronson James Coburn Eli Wallach Robert Vaughn Horst Buchholz Brad Dexter Jorge Martinez de Hoyos Vladimir Sokoloff
Dreams, 1990
Dreams,  1990
Yume
7.86 14596
average of
4184 rates
IMDb7.7 
Countries:  Japan USA
Genres:  Fantasy Drama
Directors:  Akira Kurosawa Ishirô Honda
Cast :  Akira Terao Mitsuko Baisho Toshie Negishi Mieko Harada Mitsunori Isaki Toshihiko Nakano Yoshitaka Zushi Hisashi Igawa Chosuke Ikariya Chishu Ryu
Fistful of Dollars, 1964
Fistful of Dollars,  1964
Per un pugno di dollari
7.92 120129
average of
33933 rates
IMDb7.9 
Countries:  Italy Spain Germany (FRG)
Genres:  Action Drama Western
Director:  Sergio Leone
Cast :  Clint Eastwood Gian Maria Volontè Marianne Koch Wolfgang Lukschy Sieghardt Rupp Joseph Egger Antonio Prieto Jose Calvo Margarita Lozano Daniel Martín
Dodes`ka- den, 1970
Dodes'ka-den,  1970
Dodesukaden
7.61 4333
average of
1700 rates
IMDb7.3 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Yoshitaka Zushi Kin Sugai Toshiyuki Tonomura Shinsuke Minami Yûko Kusunoki Junzaburo Ban Kiyoko Tange Michio Hino Keiji Furuyama Tappei Shimokawa
The Bad Sleep Well, 1960
The Bad Sleep Well,  1960
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
7.49 6053
average of
1110 rates
IMDb8.0 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Thriller Drama Crime
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Takashi Shimura Ko Nishimura Takeshi Kato Kamatari Fujiwara Chishu Ryu Seiji Miyaguchi
Runaway Train, 1985
Runaway Train,  1985
7.33 18420
average of
6187 rates
IMDb7.2 
Country:  USA
Genres:  Action Thriller Drama Adventure
Director:  Andrey Konchalovskiy
Cast :  Jon Voight Eric Roberts Rebecca de Mornay Kyle T. Heffner John P. Ryan T. K. Carter Kenneth McMillan Stacey Pickren Walter Wyatt Edward Bunker
Stray Dog, 1949
Stray Dog,  1949
Nora inu
7.46 8196
average of
1558 rates
IMDb7.8 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Film-Noir Thriller Drama Crime Detective
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Awaji Eiko Miyoshi Noriko Sengoku Noriko Honma Reikichi Kawamura Eijiro Tono Yasushi Nagata Isao Kimura
Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!,  1970
7.58 15321
average of
2219 rates
IMDb7.5 
Countries:  Japan USA
Genres:  War History Action Drama
Directors:  Richard Fleischer Kinji Fukasaku Toshio Masuda
Cast :  Martin Balsam Soh Yamamura Jason Nelson Robards George Macready James Whitmore Joseph Cotten E.G. Marshall Wesley Addy Tatsuya Mihashi Takahiro Tamura
Sanjuro, 1962
Sanjuro,  1962
Tsubaki Sanjuro
7.73 17581
average of
3183 rates
IMDb8.0 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Action Thriller Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Keiju Kobayashi Yuzo Kayama Reiko Dan Takashi Shimura Kamatari Fujiwara Takako Irie Masao Shimizu Yunosuke Ito
Drunken Angel, 1948
Drunken Angel,  1948
Yoidore tenshi
7.54 6342
average of
1655 rates
IMDb7.6 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Thriller Drama Romance Crime
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Takashi Shimura Toshiro Mifune Reisaburo Yamamoto Michiyo Kogure Chieko Nakakita Noriko Sengoku Shizuko Kasagi Eitarô Shindô Masao Shimizu Taiji Tonoyama
The Idiot, 1951
The Idiot,  1951
Hakuchi
7.59 4061
average of
2040 rates
IMDb7.1 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Drama Romance
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Setsuko Hara Masayuki Mori Toshiro Mifune Yoshiko Kuga Takashi Shimura Chieko Higashiyama Eijirô Yanagi Minoru Chiaki Noriko Sengoku Kokuten Kodo
Madadayo, 1993
Madadayo,  1993
Mâdadayo
7.53 3167
average of
955 rates
IMDb7.3 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Directors:  Akira Kurosawa Ishirô Honda
Cast :  Tatsuo Matsumura Hisashi Igawa George Tokoro Masayuki Yui Akira Terao Takeshi Kusaka Asei Kobayashi Kyoko Kagawa Mitsuru Hirata Takao Zushi
After the Rain, 1999
After the Rain,  1999
Ame agaru
7.88 2518
average of
928 rates
IMDb7.6 
Countries:  Japan France
Genres:  Drama Arthouse
Director:  Takashi Koizumi
Cast :  Akira Terao Yoshiko Miyazaki Shirô Mifune Fumi Dan Hisashi Igawa Hidetaka Yoshioka Mieko Harada Tatsuo Matsumura Takayuki Katô Tatsuya Nakadai
The Lower Depths, 1957
The Lower Depths,  1957
Donzoko
7.3 3059
average of
994 rates
IMDb7.2 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Isuzu Yamada Kyoko Kagawa Ganjiro Nakamura Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Akemi Negishi Nijiko Kiyokawa Koji Mitsui Eijiro Tono
Living, 2022
Living,  2022
6.81 14980
average of
2315 rates
IMDb7.2 
Countries:  UK Japan Sweden
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Oliver Hermanus
Cast :  Bill Francis Nighy Alex Sharp Adrian Rawlins Hubert Burton Oliver Chris Michael Cochrane Anant Varman Aimee Lou Wood Zoe Boyle Lia Williams
Judo Saga, 1943
Judo Saga,  1943
Sugata Sanshirô
6.91 2917
average of
902 rates
IMDb6.7 
Country:  Japan
Genres:  Action Drama Adventure
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Denjiro Okochi Susumu Fujita Yukiko Todoroki Ryunosuke Tsukigata Takashi Shimura Ranko Hanai Sugisaku Aoyama Ichiro Sugai Yoshio Kosugi Kokuten Kodo
I Live in Fear, 1955
I Live in Fear,  1955
Ikimono no kiroku
7.19 2620
average of
680 rates
IMDb7.3 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Eiko Miyoshi Kyoko Aoyama Haruko Tôgô Noriko Sengoku Akemi Negishi Hiroshi Tachikawa Kichijiro Ueda
The Quiet Duel, 1949
The Quiet Duel,  1949
Shizukanaru kettô
7.83 2816
average of
1425 rates
IMDb7.3 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Miki Sanjo Kenjirô Uemura Chieko Nakakita Noriko Sengoku Jyonosuke Miyazaki Isamu Yamaguchi Shigeru Matsumoto Hiroko Machida
Rhapsody in August, 1991
Rhapsody in August,  1991
Hachigatsu no rapusodî
7.3 3755
average of
1116 rates
IMDb7.2 
Country:  Japan
Genre:  Drama
Director:  Akira Kurosawa
Cast :  Sachiko Murase Hisashi Igawa Narumi Kayashima Tomoko Otakara Mitsunori Isaki Toshie Negishi Hidetaka Yoshioka Choichiro Kawarazaki Mieko Suzuki Richard Gere
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