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Akira Kurosawa
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor Born: March 23, 1910 in Omori, Tokyo, Japan Death: September 6, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan Biography:The most well-known of all Japanese directors, the great irony about "Akira Kurosawa"'s career is that he's been far more popular outside of Japan than in Japan. The son of an army officer, Kurosawa studied art before gravitating to film as a means of supporting himself. He served seven years as an assistant to director Kajiro Yamamoto before he began his own directorial career with "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943), a film about the 19th century struggle for supremacy between adherents of judo and jujitsu that so impressed the military government, he was prevailed upon to make a sequel (Sanshiro Sugata Part Two).
Following the end of World War II, Kurosawa's career gathered speed with a series of films that cut across all genres, from crime thrillers to period dramas. Among the latter, his "Rashomon" (1951) became the first postwar Japanese film to find wide favor with Western audiences, and simultaneously... Full Biography
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