Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin...
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Screenwriter
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2002
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Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and...
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2001
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As the Japanese studios were declining in 1969, four legendary directors from that country's "golden age" of cinema --...
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Screenwriter
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2000
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Shortly before his death in 1998, Akira Kurosawa completed a screenplay entitled Ame Agaru, based on a short story by...
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Screenwriter
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1999
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Akira Kurosawa's swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1993
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Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa follows up on his phantasmorgic Dreams with this delicate tale about war and memory. The...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1991
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Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master director Akira Kurosawa looks inward with this...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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1986
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Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1985
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Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980...
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Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
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1980
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A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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Dodes'ka-Den (aka Dodesukaden) was Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's first project since Red Beard (1965), and his first...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1970
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In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1965
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In this drama, a student takes up judo to earn his peers' respect. As he studies and practices under the expert tutelage of...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1962
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Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1961
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1960
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1958
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Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean...
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Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1954
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Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1951
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Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly obscured when he contracts syphilis while performing a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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Akira Kurosawa directs the black-and-white 1949 film noir Nora Inu (released in the U.S. in 1963 as Stray Dog). In his third...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1948
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Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1948
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Akira Kurosawa directs this romantic comedy about a pair of lovers struggling to have a pleasant Sunday outing. A young...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1947
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Based on the Takikawa incident of 1933, in which a prominent professor was forced out of his position by the government for...
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1946
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Director
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1946
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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Akira Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was put together at the last minute when Kurosawa's plan to direct a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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Following up on his successful directorial debut, soon-to-be cinematic master Akira Kurosawa helms this war-era melodrama...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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This first effort by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was originally released as Sanshiro Sugata . The film, made under...
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Director, Editor
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1943
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A young girl, Ine, from a poor village family wants nothing more than to own a horse. Her family soon takes in a pregnant...
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Editor, First Assistant Director
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1941
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