Akira Kurosawa

1910 – 1998

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker whose 30 feature films across six decades made him one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Works including Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961), and Ran (1985) reshaped global film vocabulary and were openly imitated by directors from George Lucas and Sergio Leone to Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. He received the Academy Honorary Award in 1990 for his lifetime contribution to motion pictures.

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