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Акира Куросава (Akira Kurosawa)
ФИЛЬМОГРАФИЯ (жирным выделены фильмы, имеющиеся у нас):
1996 ОДИНОЧКА /LAST MAN STANDING/ - сюжет
1991 АВГУСТОВСКАЯ РАПСОДИЯ /RHAPSODY IN AUGUST/ - режиссер, сценарист
1990 СНЫ АКИРЫ КУРОСАВЫ /AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS/ - режиссер
1985 ХАОС (РАН) /RAN (CHAOS)/ - режиссер, сценарист
1980 КАГЕМУСЯ (ТЕНЬ ВОИНА) /KAGEMUSHA/ - режиссер, сценарист,
продюсер (продюсеры международной версии - Джордж Люкас и Френсис
Форд Коппола)
1975 ДЕРСУ УЗАЛА - режиссер, сценарист
1970 ТОРА! ТОРА! ТОРА! /TORA! TORA! TORA!/ - сценарист
1970 ДОДЕСКАДЕН (ПОД СТУК ТРАМВАЙНЫХ КОЛЕС) /DODES'KA-DEN/ - режиссер
1965 РЫЖАЯ БОРОДА (КРАСНАЯ БОРОДА) /AKAHIGE (Red Beard)/ - режиссер,
сценарист
1964 ГЕНИЙ ДЗЮДО - сценарист
1963 РАЙ И АД /TENGOKU TO-JIGOKU (HIGH AND LOW)/ - режиссер, сценарист
1962 САНДЗЮРО (ЦУБАКИ САНДЗЮРО/ОТВАЖНЫЙ САНДЗЮРО) /SANJURO/ -
режиссер, сценарист
1961 ТЕЛОХРАНИТЕЛЬ (ЙОДЖИМБО, ЙОДЗИМБО) /YOJIMBO (THE BODYGUARD)/
- режиссер, сценарист
1960 ЧЕМ ХУЖЕ ЧЕЛОВЕК, ТЕМ ЛУЧШЕ ОН СПИТ (ПЛОХИЕ СПЯТ СПОКОЙНО)
/WARUI YATSU HODO YOKU NEMURU (BAD SLEEP WELL, THE)/ - режиссер,
сценарист, продюсер, монтажер
1958 СКРЫТАЯ КРЕПОСТЬ (ТРОЕ НЕГОДЯЕВ В СКРЫТОЙ КРЕПОСТИ) /KAKUSHI
TORIDE NO SAN AKUNIN (HIDDEN FORTRESS, THE/THREE RASCALS IN THE
HIDDEN FORTRESS)/ - режиссер, сценарист
1957 НА ДНЕ /Donzoko/ /The Lower Depths/ - режиссер
1957 ТРОН В КРОВИ (ЗАМОК ПАУТИНЫ/МАКБЕТ) /KUMONOSU JO (THRONE
OF BLOOD/CASTLE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB, THE/COBWEB CASTLE/MACBETH)/
- режиссер, сценарист, продюсер
1955 ХРОНИКА ОДНОЙ ЖИЗНИ (Я ЖИВУ В СТРАХЕ) /Ikimono no kiroku
(I Live In Fear: Record of a Living Being)(What the Birds Knew)/
- режиссер
1954 СЕМЬ САМУРАЕВ /SHICHININ NO SAMURAI (SEVEN SAMURAI)/ - режиссер,
сценарист
1952 ЖИТЬ /IKIRU (LIVING/TO LIVE/DOOMED)/ - режиссер, сценарист,
монтажер
1951 ИДИОТ - режиссер
1950 РАСЕМОН /RASHOMON/ - режиссер, сценарист
1949 МОЛЧАЛИВАЯ ДУЭЛЬ /QUIET DUEL, THE (A SILENT DUEL)/ - режиссер
1949 БЕЗДОМНЫЙ ПЕС /НОРА ИНУ (STRAY DOG)/ - режиссер, сценарист
1948 ПЬЯНЫЙ АНГЕЛ /DRUNKEN ANGEL/ - режиссер, сценарист
1947 ЛЮДИ, ТВОРЯЩИЕ ЗАВТРА - режиссер
1947 ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНОЕ ВОСКРЕСЕНЬЕ /ONE WONDERFUL SUNDAY (WONDERFUL
SUNDAY)/ - режиссер
1946 Я НЕ ЖАЛЕЮ О СВОЕЙ ЮНОСТИ /NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH/ - режиссер
1945 САГА О ДЗЮДО 2 /СУГАТА САНСИРО 2/ - режиссер
1944 САМЫЕ КРАСИВЫЕ /MOST BEAUTIFUL, THE/ - режиссер
1943 САГА О ДЗЮДО /СУГАТА САНСИРО (SUGATA SAHSHIRO/JUDO SAGA)/
- режиссер, сценарист
Фильмы Акиры Куросавы, которые можно
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Акира Куросава /Akira Kurosawa/
Дата рождения: 23.03.1910
Дата смерти: 06.09.1998
Место рождения: Omori, Токио, Япония
Режиссер и сценарист. Один из бесспортных гигантов кино, этот
гениальный художник работает в кино уже почти шестьдесят лет,
охватив почти все жанры от простых боевиков и исторических эпических
картин до гуманистических драм и чистых полетов фантазии. Получив
глубокое образование в западной литературе, искусстве и традициях,
Куросава не мог заработать себе на жизнь художником и подал заявление
на должность помощника режиссера на киностудии в 1936 году, где
и проработал учеником у Кадзиро Ямамото (Kajiro Yamamoto). В это
время он писал сценарии и, в конце концов, дебютировал как режиссер
фильмом "Сугата Санcиро/Сага о Дзюдо" (Sugata Sanshiro/Judo
Saga), 1943) по собственному сценарию, в котором рассказывал о
развитии дзюдо в конце 19-го века, снятом в традиции джидай-геки
(Jidai-geki). Во время войны его фильмы, такие, как "Самые
красивые" (The Most beautiful, 1944), о жизни девушек, работающих
на военном заводе, продолжение "Саги о дзюдо" и "Мужчины,
идущие по следу тигра" (оба в 1945) тщательно ослеживались
японским правительством, но последний был запрещен оккупационными
властями США. По заказу забастовочного комитета кинокомпании "Тохо"
с Кадзиро Яамамото и Хидэо Сэкигава поставил фильм "Люди,
творящие завтра", 1946. Позже он обратился к более приемлемым
темам, таким, как "Я не жалею о своей юности", 1946,
основанном на реальной истории о профессоре, симпатизирующем коммунистам,
и "Великолепное воскресенье", 1947. Куросава сам назвал
"Пьяного ангела" (1948), своим первым настоящим фильмом,
сделанным без постороннего вмешательства. История о докторе и
молодом гангстере была первым сотрудничеством с Тосиро Мифунэ,
актером, который будет и далее появляться во многих его величайших
фильмах. На разных студиях страны он поставил "Молчаливую
дуэль" и "Бездомного пса", в котором Мифунэ в роли
полицейского ищет вора, который украл его пистолет, "Скандал"
(1950), в котором он подвергает нападкам прессу, но мировое признание
и славу ему принес "Расемон" (1950), классическое исследование
человеческой природы и относительности истины и правды. Эта картина
не только утвердила Куросаву, как первоклассного режиссера, но
и стала первым японским фильмом, широко показанным на Западе,
открывшим двери для других режиссеров от Озу до Мизогучи. В 1951
году он снимает неровную, но занимательную версию "Идиота"
по Достоевскому, перенесенную в послевоенную Японию, но "Жить"
(Икиру/Ikiru, 1952), стал, возможно, самой личной и прекрасной
его работой. В ней он рассказывает об умирающем мелком чиновнике,
который пытается найти значение в своей жизни. Часто его сравнивали
с классическими гуманистскими фильмами итальянского неореализма.
Принятие Куросавой западных ценностей и философии, а также
кино, способствовало и его собственному кинематографическому развитию,
которое зависело во многом от героических протагонистов, следовавших
строгому этическому кодексу в битве с враждебными силами. Его
героями становятся японские эквиваленты частных детективов, ковбоев,
крутых полицейских. "Бродячий пес" - родом из голливудских
триллеров 1940-х годов в отношении атмосферы и визуальных тонов.
В другом культурном пересечении Куросава переносит классику обмана
Дэшиэлла Хэмметта "Красный урожай" (Red Harvest) в феодальную
Японию в фильме "Йоджимбо/Телохранитель" (1961), очень
популярном среди наших видеоманов, полная насилия сатирическая
усмешка над западными традициями. Здесь Мифунэ в роли самурая,
который нанимается к двум враждующим группировкам городка. Куросава
продолжил эксплуатировать удачный образ самурая-Мифунэ в продолжении
1962 года - "Сандзюро". "Спрятаннаяя крепость/Трое
негодяев в скрытой крепости" (The Hidden Fortress), 1958,
просто сочетала в себе классический вестерн с японскими элементами.
"Трон в крови", 1957, был удивительно динамичной версией
"Макбета", а "Плохие спят спокойно" стал современной
вариацией "Гамлета" в 1960 году на тему коррупции и
большого бизнеса. "Рай и ад" (High and Law), 1963, триллер
о киднэппинге, был поставлен по роману Эда МакБэйна. Пьесу Горького
"На дне" Куросава с блеском переносит на окраину города
Эдо в конце 19-го века. В 1960 году создает собственную компанию
"Куросава про". Одновременно подход Куросавы к рассказыванию
даже внутри узнаваемых жанров оказал глубочайшее влияние на кинематографистов
Европы и Америки. Его наиболее известный фильм "Семь самураев"
(1954), один из самых захватывающих и лучших фильмов "экшн"
за всю историю кино, послужил калькой для американского вестерна
"Великолепная семерка" (1960). "Телохранитель"
вдохновил Серджо Леоне на создание первого спагетти-вестерна "Пригоршня
долларов" (1964). Джордж Лукас сам признавал, что был под
влиянием "Троих негодяев в скрытой крепости", когда
задумывал "Звездные войны" (1977). После медицинской
драмы "Красная борода" (1965) Куросава подписал контракт
с компание "20 Век-Фокс" на эпическую военную ленту
о Перл Харбор "Тора! Тора! Тора" (1970), но проблемы
связи и аристического контроля над проектом привели к его отставке.
Слухи о том, что он страдал от душевного и умственного неравновесия,
сильно помешали его карьере. Он не мог получить поддержки для
своих собственных проектов, пока японские режиссеры Кейсуке Киношита,
Масаки Гобаяши и Кон Шчикава не присоединились в 1970 году в качестве
сопродюсеров к фильму "Додескаден", ставшему первым
цветным фильмом Куросавы. Это также была его первая финансовая
неудача и в сочетании с проблемами здоровья это привело к неудачной
попытке самоубийства. Он выздоровел и пережил своего рода артистическое
возрождение (хотя в Японии в финансовом отношении он на ноги так
никогда и не встал). Поставил вместе с СССР "Дерсу Узала"
(1975), ведя в течение двух лет работу в Сибири и получив "Оскара"
за лучший иностранный фильм. Фрэнсис Форд Копполаа и Джордж Лукас
профинансировали эпический фильм "Кагемуся" (1980),
зрелищное возвращение к самурайскому кино. Французы дали деньги
на съемки "Ран" (1985), вариации на тему шекспировского
"Короля Лира", доказавшего, что Куросава не разучился
ставить батальные эпизоды и одновременно выписывать гуманизм своих
персонажей даже среди хаоса и смуты. Фильм принес Куросаве единственную
"оскарную" номинацию за режиссуру. Стивен Спилберг выступил
продюсером "Снов Акиры Куросавы", 1990, визуально богатого,
но драматически неровного образа ночных фантазий. В роли Ван Гога
снялся Мартин Скорсезе. "Августовская рапсодия", 1991,
с американским кинозвездой Ричардом Гиром, заглядывала в не столь
отдаленное прошлое американской бомбардировки Нагасаки глазами
современной японской семьи. Все еще активно работая в свои 80
лет, Куросава снимает "Мадаадайо/Еще нет". Художник,
не всегда принятый и понятый в собственной стране, где он считался
слишком западным для местных вкусов, Куросава приобрел всемирное
признание и восхищение. В 1989 году ему был вручен почетный "Оскар"
"за достижения, вдохновившие, приведшие в восторг и обогатившие
кинематографистов во всем мире". Он опубликовал собственные
мемуары "Что-то вроде автобиографии" в 1982 году.
Akira Kurosawa. IMDB (15.01.2005)
Birth: 23 March 1910, Omori, Tokyo, Japan
Death: 6 September 1998, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. (stroke)
Nickname: The Emperor
Height: 6' 1/2" (1.84 m)
Spouse: Yoko Yaguchi (21 May 1945 - 1 February 1985) (her
death) 2 children
Mini biography:
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale
paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant
director, making his directorial debut in 1943. After working
in a wide range of genres, he made his breakthrough film 'Rashomon
(1950)' in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival,
and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West.
The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living),
the epic Shichinin no samurai (1954) (Seven Samurai) and the barbaric,
riveting Shakespeare adaptation 'Kumonosu jo (1957)' (Throne of
Blood), the later two showcasing the magnetic personality of Toshiro
Mifune, who also starred in the two samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961)
and Tsubaki Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s
and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived,
and made the Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with
the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the
samurai epic Kagemusha (1980), which was in many ways a dry run
for Ran (1985), his second Shakespeare adaptation. He continued
to work into his eighties with the more personal Yume (1990),
Rhapsody in August (1991) and Madadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films
have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan,
where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and
authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Maxim Gorky
and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American
and European film-makers, who remade Shichinin no samurai (1954),
as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as Per un pugno
di dollari (1964) and Kakushi toride no san akunin (1958), as
Star Wars (1977).
Trade mark:
- Frequently uses the "wipe effect" to fade from one
scene to another. This effect later became famous due to its usage
in the StarWars trilogy.
- Likes to do Shakespearan plays in Feudal Japanese settings.
- Often casts Toshiro Mifune
- Often casts Takashi Shimura
Trivia:
- His films are frequently copied and remade by American and European
filmmakers.
- In December 1971, after a period of suffering from mental fatigue,
Kurosawa attempted suicide by slashing his wrist thirty times
with a razor. Fortunately he was not badly hurt and made a full
recovery.
- Because he could not get film financing for a period of time
in his career, he directed and even appeared in Japanese television
commercials.
- At over 6' feet tall, he was extremely large by Japanese standards,
having stood a head taller than any of his colleagues.
- Although the Japanese press tried to paint him as a tyrant,
he was actually a cool, detached personality on sets.
- He was voted the 6th greatest director of all time by Entertainment
Weekly, making him the only Asian on a list of 50 directors.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors,
Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 583-605. New York: The H.W.
Wilson Company, 1987.
- Kurosawa worshipped John Ford, his primary influence as a filmmaker.
When the two met, Ford was uncommonly pleasant to the younger
Japanese filmmaker and afterwards Kurosawa dressed in a similar
fashion to Ford when on film sets.
- Unbeknownst to many people, Kurosawa had always wanted to make
a Godzilla film of his own, but the executives at Toho Co., Ltd.
(the Japanese studio that produces all the Godzilla films) wouldn't
let him because they feared it would cost too much.
- According to his family, he rarely thought about anything other
than films. Even when at home, he would sit around silently, apparently
composing shots in his head.
Personal quotes:
- "For me, film-making combines everything. That's the reason
I've made cinema my life's work. In films painting and literature,
theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film."
- "Human beings share the same common problems. A film can
only be understood if it depicts these properly."
- "The characters in my films try to live honestly and make
the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live
honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do
this are the real heros."
- "With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece.
With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable
film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly
make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and
the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The
script must be something that has the power to do this."
- "In all my films, there's three or maybe four minutes of
real cinema."
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
One of the undisputed giants of cinema, this magnificent artist
boasts a career of a halfcentury's duration, encompassing almost
every genre, from flat-out, shameless action films to historical
epics to humanistic dramas to sheer flights of fancy. Highly trained
in Western literature, art, and tradition, Kurosawa was unable
to earn a living as a painter, so he applied for a job as an assistant
director at a film studio in 1936 and served his apprenticeship
with Kajiro Yamamoto. He worked on screenplays during this time
and eventually made his directing debut with Sugata Sanshiro/Judo
Saga (1943), a film in the jidai-geki tradition. During the war,
his films like The Most Beautiful (1944, a study of factory workers),
the sequel Judo Saga II and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
(both 1945) were carefully monitored by the Japanese government;
the latter film was banned by the U.S. Army's General Headquarters.
Afterward, he turned to more "acceptable" fare such
as No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), based on a true-life incident
involving a professor with Communist sympathies.
Kurosawa has called Drunken Angel (1948) his first real film,
made without interference. The story of a doctor and a young gangster,
it marked Kurosawa's first collaboration with Toshiro Mifune,
the actor who would go on to appear in many of his greatest films.
He made Stray Dog (1949, with Mifune as a policeman searching
for a thief who stole his gun) and Scandal (1950, an attack on
the press) but gained international fame for Rashomon (1950),
a classic study of the relativity of truth, with four different
views of a rape and a murder in 9thcentury Kyoto. The film not
only established Kurosawa as a world-class filmmaker, but became
the first Japanese film to be widely shown in the West, opening
the door for other directors ranging from Ozu to Mizoguchi. The
Idiot (1951) was an uneven but fascinating adaptation of the Dostoyevsky
novel, but Ikiru (1952), the story of a dying civil servant who
tries to find significance in his life, is perhaps Kurosawa's
most personal and beautiful work; it has often been compared to
the classic humanist films of the Italian neorealists.
Kurosawa's appreciation of Western values and philosophy-as
well as filmmaking-contributed to his own cinematic development,
which depended a great deal on heroic protagonists who follow
a rigid ethical code while battling against hostile forces. His
heroes are Japanese equivalents of our own private eyes, cowboys,
and tough cops. Stray Dog drew on Hollywood thrillers of the 1940s
for atmosphere and visual touches. In another cultural crossover,
Kurosawa transferred Dashiell Hammett's double-cross classic "Red
Harvest" to feudal Japan in Yojimbo (1961), a violent, satiric
twist on Western conventions, with Mifune as a samurai who hires
himself out to a town's rival factions. (Kurosawa continued the
exploits of Mifune's samurai in the 1962 sequel Sanjuro) The Hidden
Fortress (1958) similarly fused classic Western and Japanese elements.
Throne of Blood (1957) was a startlingly kinetic reinterpretation
of "Macbeth" set in medieval Japan; The Bad Sleep Well
(1960) a modern variation on "Hamlet," which dealt with
corruption and big business. High and Low (1963), a kidnapping
thriller, was based on an Ed McBain novel.
At the same time, Kurosawa's approach to storytelling-within
recognizable genres-had a profound influence on filmmakers in
Europe and America. His bestknown film, The Seven Samurai (1954),
one of the most exhilarating action films ever made, provided
the blueprint for the American Western The Magnificent Seven (1960).
Yojimbo was used as source material for Sergio Leone's first "spaghetti
Western," A Fistful of Dollars (1964). And The Hidden Fortress
was a definite (and acknowledged) influence on George Lucas when
he was concocting Star Wars (1977).
After the medical drama Red Beard (1965), Kurosawa signed to
direct part of 20th Century-Fox's Pearl Harbor epic Tora! Tora!
Tora! (1970) but problems over communication and artistic control
led to his resignation; rumors that he was mentally unfit seriously
hurt his career. He could not get backing for his own projects
until Japanese directors Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi,
and Kon Ichikawa joined as coproducers on 1970's Dodes'ka-den
an interesting look at life in a Tokyo slum which was Kurosawa's
first color film. It was also his first financial failure, and
this, combined with health problems, led Kurosawa to attempt suicide.
He recovered and lived to enjoy a kind of artistic renaissance
(although he never entirely regained his financial footing in
Japan). He directed the Russianproduced Dersu Uzala (1975), which
took two years to film in Siberia and won the Academy Award for
Best Foreign Film. Acolytes Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas
bankrolled his 1980 epic Kagemusha a spectacular return to the
samurai film. French cofinancing enabled him to make Ran (1985),
an awesome retelling of "King Lear" that showed Kurosawa
had lost none of his wizardry at staging battle sequences, nor
his ability to portray the humanity of his characters even in
the midst of chaos. The film earned Kurosawa his only Academy
Award nomination as Best Director. Steven Spielberg presented
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990), the director's visually sumptuous,
but dramatically uneven rendering of his nighttime fantasies,
which included among its cast members Martin Scorsese, as van
Gogh. Rhapsody in August (1991) featured American star Richard
Gere in a controversial look back at the American bombing of Nagasaki,
from the point of view of a contemporary Japanese family. Still
active in his 80s, Kurosawa's latest film in Madadayo (Not Yet
An artist who was not always appreciated in his native country,
where his outlook was considered too Western for local tastes,
Kurosawa nevertheless attained worldwide acclaim and admiration.
In 1989 he was presented with an honorary Academy Award "for
accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched, and entertained
audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world."
He published his memoir, "Something Like an Autobiography,"
in 1982.
FILMOGRAPHY
Writer
2006 Oni (announced)
2002 Umi wa miteita
... aka The Sea Is Watching (USA)
... aka The Sea Watches
2000 Dora-heita
... aka Alley Cat
... aka Playboy
1999 Ame agaru
... aka After the Rain
... aka Apres la pluie (France)
... aka When the Rain Lifts (USA: festival title)
1996 Last Man Standing (story)
1993 Madadayo
... aka Not Yet
1991 Hachi-gatsu no kyoshikyoku
... aka 8-gatsu no rapusodi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Hachi-gatsu no rapusodi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Rhapsody in August (USA)
1990 Yume
... aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
... aka Dreams
... aka I Saw a Dream Like This
... aka Konna yume wo mita
... aka Such Dreams I Have Dreamed (Japan: English title)
1985 Runaway Train (based on a screenplay by)
1985 Ran (screenplay)
... aka Chaos
... aka Ran (USA)
1980 Kagemusha
... aka Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
... aka Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
... aka Shadow Warrior
... aka The Double
1975 Dersu Uzala
... aka Дерсу Узала (Soviet Union: Russian title)
... aka Derusu Uzara (Japan)
1973 Nora inu (1949 screenplay)
... aka Stray Dog (International: English title: literal title)
1970 Dodesukaden
... aka Clickety-Clack
... aka Dodes'ka-den (alternative transliteration)
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese sequences) (uncredited)
1965 Sugata Sanshiro (1943 screenplay "Sugata Sanshiro"
and 1945 screenplay "Zoku Sugata Sanshiro")
... aka Judo Saga
... aka Sanshiro Sugata (USA)
1965 Akahige
... aka Red Beard (International: English title: literal title)
1964 The Outrage (screenplay Rashomon)
1964 Per un pugno di dollari (screenplay Yojimbo) (uncredited)
... aka A Fistful of Dollars (USA)
... aka Fur eine Handvoll Dollar (West Germany)
... aka Fistful of Dollars (UK)
... aka For a Fistfull of Dollars (UK)
... aka Por un punado de dolares (Spain)
1964 Jakoman to Tetsu (and earlier screenplay)
... aka Jakoman and Tetsu
... aka Jyakoman to Tetsu (Japan: alternative transliteration)
1963 Tengoku to jigoku
... aka Heaven and Hell (International: English title: literal
title)
... aka High and Low (USA)
... aka The Ransom (UK)
1962 Tateshi Danpei (1950 screenplay Tateshi danpei)
... aka Fencing Master (International: English title)
1962 Tsubaki Sanjuro
... aka Sanjuro (USA)
1961 Yojimbo
... aka The Bodyguard (International: English title: literal title)
... aka Yojimbo the Bodyguard (USA)
... aka Yojinbo (Japan: modified Hepburn romanization)
1960 The Magnificent Seven (screenplay "Shichinin no samurai")
(uncredited)
1960 Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
... aka The Bad Sleep Well
... aka The Rose in the Mud
... aka The Worse You Are, the Better You Sleep
1959 Sengoku gunto-den
... aka Saga of the Vagabonds
... aka The Vagabonds (USA: promotional title)
1958 Kakushi toride no san akunin
... aka The Hidden Fortress (USA)
... aka The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress (informal English
title)
... aka Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress (International: English
title: literal title)
... aka Three Rascals in the Hidden Fortress (International: English
title)
1957 Nichiro senso shori no hishi: Tekichu odan sanbyaku-ri (also
earlier screenplay 'Techiku odan sanbyaku ri')
... aka Advance Patrol
... aka Three Hundred Miles Through Enemy Lines (literal English
title)
1957 Donzoko
... aka The Lower Depths (USA)
1957 Kumonosu jo
... aka Cobweb Castle
... aka Macbeth (USA)
... aka Spider Web Castle
... aka The Castle of the Spider's Web
... aka Throne of Blood (USA: original subtitled version)
1955 Sugata Sanshiro
... aka Sanshiro Sugata (USA)
1955 Ikimono no kiroku (story)
... aka I Live In Fear: Record of a Living Being (International:
English title)
... aka I Live in Fear (USA)
... aka Record of a Living Being
... aka What the Birds Knew
1955 Asunaro monogatari (screenplay)
... aka Hiba Arborvitae Story (International: English title: literal
title)
1955 Kieta chutai
... aka Vanished Enlisted Man (International: English title: literal
title)
1954 Shichinin no samurai (screenplay)
... aka Seven Samurai (UK)
... aka Shichi-nin no samurai (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka The Magnificent Seven
... aka The Seven Samurai (USA)
1953 Fukeyo haru kaze
... aka Blow! Spring Wind (literal English title)
... aka My Wonderful Yellow Car
1952 Ikiru
... aka Doomed
... aka Living (International: English title)
... aka To Live (International: English title)
1952 Sengoku burai
... aka Sword for Hire
... aka Vagabonds in a Country at War (Japan: literal English
title)
1952 Araki Mataemon: Ketto kagiya no tsuji
... aka Duel at Keymakers' Corner
... aka Vendetta of a Samurai (USA)
1951 Kedamono no yado
... aka The Den of Beasts
1951 Hakuchi
... aka The Idiot (USA)
1951 Ai to nikushimi no kanata e
... aka Beyond Love and Hate
1950 Tateshi Danpei
... aka Fencing Master
... aka Swordplay Choreographer
1950 Rashomon
... aka In the Woods
... aka Rashomon (Japan: alternative transliteration)
1950 Jiruba Tetsu
... aka Jiruba no Tetsu (Japan)
... aka Tetsu 'Jilba'
1950 Shubun
... aka Scandal
... aka Shubun - Sukyandaru (Japan)
1950 Akatsuki no dasso
... aka Escape at Dawn
1949 Nora inu
... aka Stray Dog (USA)
1949 Jakoman to Tetsu
... aka Jakoman and Tetsu
... aka Jyakoman to Tetsu (Japan: alternative transliteration)
1949 Jigoku no kifujin
... aka Lady from Hell (literal English title)
1949 Shizukanaru ketto
... aka A Silent Duel
... aka The Quiet Duel
1948 Shozo
... aka The Portrait
1948 Yoidore tenshi
... aka Drunken Angel
1947 Ginrei no hate
... aka Snow Trail (International: English title)
... aka Three Villains of the Mountain Hut
... aka To the End of the Silver Mountains
... aka To the End of the Snow-Capped Mountains (informal English
title)
1947 Subarashiki nichiyobi
... aka One Wonderful Sunday
... aka Wonderful Sunday
1947 Yottsu no koi no monogatari (segment "Hatsukoi")
... aka Four Love Stories
1946 Waga seishun ni kuinashi
... aka No Regrets for My Youth
... aka No Regrets for Our Youth
1945 Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi
... aka The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (USA)
... aka They Who Step on the Tail of the Tiger
... aka They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail
... aka Tora no o fumu otokotachi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Walkers on the Tiger's Tail
1945 Zoku Sugata Sanshiro
... aka Judo Saga II
... aka Judo Story II
... aka Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
... aka Sanshiro Sugata Sequel (literal English title)
1945 Appare Isshin Tasuke
... aka Brava, Tasuke Isshin!
... aka Tenbare Ishin Tasuke (Japan)
1944 Ichiban utsukushiku
... aka Most Beautifully
... aka The Most Beautiful
1944 Dohyosai
... aka Wrestling-Ring Festival
1943 Sugata Sanshiro
... aka Judo Saga
... aka Judo Story
... aka Kurosawa's Judo Saga
1942 Tsubasa no gaika
... aka A Triumph of Wings
1942 Seishun no kiryu
... aka Currents of Youth (International: English title)
... aka Wind Currents of Youth
1941 Uma (uncredited)
... aka Horse
Director
1993 Madadayo
... aka Not Yet
1991 Hachi-gatsu no kyoshikyoku
... aka 8-gatsu no rapusodi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Hachi-gatsu no rapusodi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Rhapsody in August (USA)
1990 Yume
... aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
... aka Dreams
... aka I Saw a Dream Like This
... aka Konna yume wo mita
... aka Such Dreams I Have Dreamed (Japan: English title)
1985 Ran
... aka Chaos
... aka Ran (USA)
1980 Kagemusha
... aka Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
... aka Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
... aka Shadow Warrior
... aka The Double
1975 Dersu Uzala
... aka Дерсу Узала (Soviet Union: Russian title)
... aka Derusu Uzara (Japan)
1970 Dodesukaden
... aka Clickety-Clack
... aka Dodes'ka-den (alternative transliteration)
1965 Akahige
... aka Red Beard (International: English title: literal title)
1963 Tengoku to jigoku
... aka Heaven and Hell (International: English title: literal
title)
... aka High and Low (USA)
... aka The Ransom (UK)
1962 Tsubaki Sanjuro
... aka Sanjuro (USA)
1961 Yojimbo
... aka The Bodyguard (International: English title: literal title)
... aka Yojimbo the Bodyguard (USA)
... aka Yojinbo (Japan: modified Hepburn romanization)
1960 Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
... aka The Bad Sleep Well
... aka The Rose in the Mud
... aka The Worse You Are, the Better You Sleep
1958 Kakushi toride no san akunin
... aka The Hidden Fortress (USA)
... aka The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress (informal English
title)
... aka Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress (International: English
title: literal title)
... aka Three Rascals in the Hidden Fortress (International: English
title)
1957 Donzoko
... aka The Lower Depths (USA)
1957 Kumonosu jo
... aka Cobweb Castle
... aka Macbeth (USA)
... aka Spider Web Castle
... aka The Castle of the Spider's Web
... aka Throne of Blood (USA: original subtitled version)
1955 Ikimono no kiroku
... aka I Live In Fear: Record of a Living Being (International:
English title)
... aka I Live in Fear (USA)
... aka Record of a Living Being
... aka What the Birds Knew
1954 Shichinin no samurai
... aka Seven Samurai (UK)
... aka Shichi-nin no samurai (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka The Magnificent Seven
... aka The Seven Samurai (USA)
1952 Ikiru
... aka Doomed
... aka Living (International: English title)
... aka To Live (International: English title)
1951 Hakuchi
... aka The Idiot (USA)
1950 Rashomon
... aka In the Woods
... aka Rashomon (Japan: alternative transliteration)
1950 Shubun
... aka Scandal
... aka Shubun - Sukyandaru (Japan)
1949 Nora inu
... aka Stray Dog (USA)
1949 Shizukanaru ketto
... aka A Silent Duel
... aka The Quiet Duel
1948 Yoidore tenshi
... aka Drunken Angel
1947 Subarashiki nichiyobi
... aka One Wonderful Sunday
... aka Wonderful Sunday
1946 Waga seishun ni kuinashi
... aka No Regrets for My Youth
... aka No Regrets for Our Youth
1946 Asu o tsukuru hitobito
... aka Those Who Make Tomorrow
1945 Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi
... aka The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (USA)
... aka They Who Step on the Tail of the Tiger
... aka They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail
... aka Tora no o fumu otokotachi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Walkers on the Tiger's Tail
1945 Zoku Sugata Sanshiro
... aka Judo Saga II
... aka Judo Story II
... aka Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
... aka Sanshiro Sugata Sequel (literal English title)
1944 Ichiban utsukushiku
... aka Most Beautifully
... aka The Most Beautiful
1943 Sugata Sanshiro
... aka Judo Saga
... aka Judo Story
... aka Kurosawa's Judo Saga
1941 Uma (some scenes) (uncredited)
... aka Horse
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
1941 Uma (assistant director) (second unit director)
... aka Horse
1940 Enoken no songoku: songoku zenko-hen (chief assistant director)
... aka Monkey Sun
... aka Songoku (Japan: short title)
... aka Songoku (Volume 1) (first part title)
... aka Songoku (Volume 2) (second part title)
1940 Enoken no zangiri kinta (chief assistant director)
... aka Enoken Has His Hair Cropped
... aka Enoken's Cropped Hair
1940 Roppa no shinkon ryoko (chief assistant director)
... aka Roppa's Honeymoon
1939 Nonki Yokocho (chief assistant director)
... aka Easy Alley
1939 Chushingura [Go] (chief assistant director)
... aka Chushingura (Part Two)
1939 Enoken no gatchiri jidai (chief assistant director)
... aka Enoken's Shrewd Period
1938 Tsuruhachi tsurujiro (chief assistant director)
1938 Enoken no bikkuri jinsei (chief assistant director)
... aka Enoken Is Surprised at Life
... aka Enoken's Surprising Life
1938 Tsuzurikata kyoshitsu (chief assistant director)
... aka Composition Class
... aka Lessons in Essay
1938 Tojuro no koi (chief assistant director)
... aka Tojuro's Love
1938 Chinetsu (chief assistant director)
... aka Subterranean Heat
1937 Ryonin no teisou (third assistant director)
1937 Utsukushiki taka (chief assistant director)
... aka The Beautiful Hawk (Japan: English title)
1937 Enoken no chakiri kinta [Go], kaeri wa kowai, mateba hiyori
(third assistant director)
... aka Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2: Returning Is Scary, But
the Weather Will Clear If You Wait
1937 Enoken no chakiri kinta 'Zen' - Mamayo sandogasa - Ikiha
yoiyoi (third assistant director)
... aka Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 - Momma, the Hat - The Nice
Way
1937 Nadare (third assistant director)
... aka Avalanche
1937 Nihon josei dokuhon (third assistant director)
... aka Japanese Women's Textbook
1937 Otto no teiso - aki futatabi (third assistant director)
... aka A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937 Otto no teiso - haru kureba (third assistant director)
... aka A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
... aka Husband's Chastity
1937 Sengoku gunto-den - Dai nibu Akatsuki no zenshin (third assistant
director)
... aka Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
1937 Sengoku gunto-den - Dai ichibu Toraokami (third assistant
director)
1936 Tokyo rapusodei (third assistant director)
... aka Tokyo Rhapsody
... aka Tokyo rapesodeii (Japan: alternative transliteration)
1936 Zoku Enoken no semman choja (third assistant director)
... aka Enoken's Ten Millions Sequel
1936 Enoken no senman chojya (third assistant director)
... aka Enoken's Ten Millions
... aka Enoken, the Millionaire
... aka The Millionaire
1936 Shojo Hanazono (third assistant director)
... aka Paradise of the Virgin Flowers (informal title)
Editor
1993 Madadayo
... aka Not Yet
1991 Hachi-gatsu no kyoshikyoku
... aka 8-gatsu no rapusodi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Hachi-gatsu no rapusodi (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka Rhapsody in August (USA)
1985 Ran
... aka Chaos
... aka Ran (USA)
1963 Gojuman-nin no isan (uncredited)
... aka 500,000 (USA)
... aka Legacy of the 500,000
... aka Legacy of the Five Hundred Thousand
1962 Tsubaki Sanjuro
... aka Sanjuro (USA)
1961 Yojimbo
... aka The Bodyguard (International: English title: literal title)
... aka Yojimbo the Bodyguard (USA)
... aka Yojinbo (Japan: modified Hepburn romanization)
1960 Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
... aka The Bad Sleep Well
... aka The Rose in the Mud
... aka The Worse You Are, the Better You Sleep
1958 Kakushi toride no san akunin
... aka The Hidden Fortress (USA)
... aka The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress (informal English
title)
... aka Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress (International: English
title: literal title)
... aka Three Rascals in the Hidden Fortress (International: English
title)
1957 Donzoko
... aka The Lower Depths (USA)
1957 Kumonosu jo
... aka Cobweb Castle
... aka Macbeth (USA)
... aka Spider Web Castle
... aka The Castle of the Spider's Web
... aka Throne of Blood (USA: original subtitled version)
1955 Asunaro monogatari
... aka Hiba Arborvitae Story (International: English title: literal
title)
1954 Shichinin no samurai
... aka Seven Samurai (UK)
... aka Shichi-nin no samurai (Japan: alternative transliteration)
... aka The Magnificent Seven
... aka The Seven Samurai (USA)
1951 Hakuchi
... aka The Idiot (USA)
1950 Rashomon
... aka In the Woods
... aka Rashomon (Japan: alternative transliteration)
1947 Ginrei no hate (uncredited)
... aka Snow Trail (International: English title)
... aka Three Villains of the Mountain Hut
... aka To the End of the Silver Mountains
... aka To the End of the Snow-Capped Mountains (informal English
title)
1946 Waga seishun ni kuinashi
... aka No Regrets for My Youth
... aka No Regrets for Our Youth
1943 Sugata Sanshiro
... aka Judo Saga
... aka Judo Story
... aka Kurosawa's Judo Saga
1941 Uma
... aka Horse
Producer
1980 Kagemusha (executive producer) (producer)
... aka Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
... aka Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
... aka Shadow Warrior
... aka The Double
1970 Dodesukaden (executive producer) (producer)
... aka Clickety-Clack
... aka Dodes'ka-den (alternative transliteration)
1965 Sugata Sanshiro (producer)
... aka Judo Saga
... aka Sanshiro Sugata (USA)
1965 Akahige (associate producer)
... aka Red Beard (International: English title: literal title)
1963 Tengoku to jigoku (associate producer)
... aka Heaven and Hell (International: English title: literal
title)
... aka High and Low (USA)
... aka The Ransom (UK)
1961 Yojimbo (producer)
... aka The Bodyguard (International: English title: literal title)
... aka Yojimbo the Bodyguard (USA)
... aka Yojinbo (Japan: modified Hepburn romanization)
1960 Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (producer)
... aka The Bad Sleep Well
... aka The Rose in the Mud
... aka The Worse You Are, the Better You Sleep
1958 Kakushi toride no san akunin (producer)
... aka The Hidden Fortress (USA)
... aka The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress (informal English
title)
... aka Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress (International: English
title: literal title)
... aka Three Rascals in the Hidden Fortress (International: English
title)
1957 Donzoko (producer)
... aka The Lower Depths (USA)
1957 Kumonosu jo (producer)
... aka Cobweb Castle
... aka Macbeth (USA)
... aka Spider Web Castle
... aka The Castle of the Spider's Web
... aka Throne of Blood (USA: original subtitled version)
1949 Nora inu (associate producer)
... aka Stray Dog (USA)
1949 Haru no tawamure (associate producer)
... aka Flirtation in Spring (Japan: English title)
... aka Spring Flirtation (informal literal title)
Miscellaneous Crew
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (personal thanks)
... aka Ghost Dog - Der Weg des Samurai (Germany)
... aka Ghost Dog, la voie du samourai (France)
1998 China Gate (in tribute to)
1992 Visions of Light (special thanks from afi)
... aka Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
Sound Department
1938 Tojuro no koi (dubbing supervisor)
... aka Tojuro's Love
Himself
1990 The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (TV) .... Himself - Honorary
Award Recipient
1986 The 58th Annual Academy Awards (TV) .... Himself - Nominee:
Best Director & Co-Presenter: Best Picture
A.K. (1985) .... Himself
... aka Kurosawa Akira (Japan: alternative title)
1972 75 Years of Cinema Museum .... Himself
1970 The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (TV) .... Himself - commenting
on new freedom and trends in film (pre-recorded)
Archive Footage
2001 Kurosawa .... Himself
2000 Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (TV)
.... Himself
Notable TV Guest Appearances
"The South Bank Show" playing "Himself"
in episode: "Akira Kurosawa" (episode # 4.3) 23 November
1980
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