Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (born in Tokyo, Japan, March 23, 1910, died September 6, 1998) is the master filmmaker who directed Japanese films like Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1963). Sixteen of his movies starred Toshiro Mifune, from Drunken Angel (1948) to Red Beard (1965). Later he directed Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior, 1980), Ran (1985), Dreams (1990) with Martin Scorsese playing Vincent Van Gogh, Rhapsody in August (1991).

Read Kurosawa’s Autobiography: Something Like An Autobiography”, by Jean-Paul Chaillet.

Lee en español Kurosawa: Autobiografia (o algo parecido), por Jean-Paul Chaillet y Paz Mata.

Golden Globe Awards

1991 Nominee

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
- Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
- Japan
1986 Nominee

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
- Ran
- Japan
1981 Nominee

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
- Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
- Japan
1966 Nominee

Foreign Film - Foreign Language
- Red Beard
- Japan
1964 Nominee

Foreign Film - Foreign Language
- High And Low
- Japan