Japan

Akira Kurosawa

31 films · 1943 to 1993

Born 23 March 1910, Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan · Died 6 September 1998

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as a hands-on filmmaker, he was heavily involved with all aspects of production as a director, writer, producer, and editor. Following a brief stint as a painter, Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and screenwriter, he made his directorial debut during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (1943), released when he was 33.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Critical context from Senses of Cinema