Biography: life and films
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan on 23rd March 1910 and died in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan on 6th September 1998, aged 88.His best films as a screenwriter include Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro (1962), High and Low (1963) and Richard Fleischer's Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), and whose best work as a film director include Stray Dog (1949), The Lower Depths (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Sanjuro (1962).
Akira Kurosawa scripted 26 films and directed 20 films.
His most frequent genres include: drama (22 films), Thriller (7), crime-thriller (5), War (4), history (3), comedy-drama (3), Western (3) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for Akira Kurosawa over all films is: 4.5
Filmography
Key: d = director; w = writer; a = actor
Drunken Angel (1948) [d,w]
Stray Dog (1949) [d,w]
The Silent Duel (1949) [d,w]
Rashomon (1950) [d,w]
Scandal (1950) [d,w]
The Idiot (1951) [d,w]
Ikiru (1952) [d,w]
Seven Samurai (1954) [d,w]
I Live in Fear (1955) [d,w]
The Lower Depths (1957) [d,w]
Throne of Blood (1957) [d,w]
The Hidden Fortress (1958) [d,w]
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) [d,w]
The Magnificent Seven (1960) [w]
Yojimbo (1961) [d,w]
Sanjuro (1962) [d,w]
High and Low (1963) [d,w]
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) [w]
The Outrage (1964) [w]
Red Beard (1965) [d,w]
Dodes'ka-den (1970) [d,w]
75 Years of Cinema Museum (1972) [a]
Dersu Uzala (1975) [d,w]
Kagemusha (1980) [d,w]
A.K. (1985) [a]
Ran (1985) [d,w]
Runaway Train (1985) [w]
Dreams (1990) [d,w]
Last Man Standing (1996) [w]
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