Akira Kurosawa Information
Biography
This biography is based on the one that I wrote for Wikipedia back in the summer of 2010. Since then, the Wikipedia article has been revised by other people, while I have updated the text for Akira Kurosawa info. The biography is a synthesis of the various books, documentaries and other information available about Kurosawa with sources for direct quotes indicated in the text.
- Part 1: Growing up (1910–1935)
- Part 2: Director in training (1935–1941)
- Part 3: Directorial debut, marriage and wartime works (1941–1945)
- Part 4: Son and immediate post-war works (1945–1950)
- Part 5: Daughter and international breakthrough (1950–1958)
- Part 6: Darker themes and move to widescreen (1955–1959)
- Part 7: New production company and the end of an era (1958–1965)
- Part 8: Unsuccessful Hollywood projects (1965–1969)
- Part 9: A difficult decade (1969–1978)
- Part 10: Comeback (1978–1986)
- Part 11: Final works and last years (1986-1998)
- Part 12: Death and posthumous works (1998-present)
Filmography
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- Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
- The Most Beautiful (1944)
- Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
- One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
- Drunken Angel (1948)
- The Quiet Duel (1949)
- Stray Dog (1949)
- Scandal (1950)
- Rashomon (1950)
- The Idiot (1951)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Record of a Living Being (1955)
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- The Lower Depths (1957)
- The Hidden Fortress (1958)
- The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
- Yojimbo (1961)
- Sanjuro (1962)
- High and Low (1963)
- Red Beard (1965)
- Dodesukaden (1970)
- Song of the Horse (1971)
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Kagemusha (1980)
- Ran (1985)
- Dreams (1990)
- Rhapsody in August (1991)
- Madadayo (1993)
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