Akira Kurosawa Biography Akira Kurosawa (Kyujitai, Shinjitai Kurosawa Akira?, 23 March 1910-6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film (Sugata Sanshiro) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Legion d'Honneur and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. In 1936, Kurosawa learned of an apprenticeship program for directors through a major film studio, PCL (which later became Toho).He was hired and worked as an assistant director to Kajiro Yamamoto . After his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata, his next few films were made under the watchful eye of the wartime Japanese government and sometimes contained nationalistic themes. For instance, The Most Beautiful is a propaganda film about Japanese women working in a military optics factory. Judo Saga 2 has been held to be explicitly anti-American in the way that it portrays Japanese judo as superior to western (American) boxing. His first post-war film No Regrets for Our Youth, by contrast, is critical of the old Japanese regime and is about the wife of a left-wing dissident arrested for his political leanings. Kurosawa made several more films dealing with contemporary Japan, most notably Drunken Angel and Stray Dog. However, it was his period film Rashomon that made him internationally famous and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival Filmography 1993 - Madadayo
1991 - Rapsódia em agosto
1990 - Sonhos
1985 - Ran
1980 - Kagemusha,
a sombra do samurai
1974 - Dersu uzala
1970 - Dodesukaden
1965 - O barba ruiva
1963 - Céu e inferno
1962 - Sanjuro
1961 - Yojimbo, o guarda-costas
1960 - Homem mau dorme bem
1958 - A fortaleza escondida
1957 - Ralé
1957 - Trono manchado de
sangue
1955 - Anatomia do medo
1954 - Os sete samurais
1952 - Viver
1951 - Hakuchi, o idiota
1950 - Rashomon
1950 - O escândalo
1949 - Cão danado
1949 - Duelo silencioso
1948 - O anjo embriagado
1945 - Os homens que
pisaram na cauda do tigre
1943 - Sugata Sanshiro
1941 - Uma dvdcontinental.com.br