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    The legacy of filmmaking technique left by Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) for subsequent generations of filmmakers has been diverse and of international influence...
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  • Kazuko Kurosawa (黒澤 和子, Kurosawa Kazuko, born April 29, 1954) is a Japanese costume designer. She is the daughter of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and actress...
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  • High and Low (1963 film) (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijirō Hisaita [ja], and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel...
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    Seven Samurai (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586 in the Sengoku period of Japanese history...
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  • also known as Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, is a 1990 magical realist anthology film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Inspired by...
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    guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films. He is not related to director Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa began directing...
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    Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning...
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    Satyajit Ray (category Akira Kurosawa Award winners)
    of cinema, American filmmaker Martin Scorsese said, "His work is in the company of that of living contemporaries like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and...
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    Drunken Angel (category Films directed by Akira Kurosawa)
    directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. It is notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune...
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    director with Devil (2024). Mysskin is inspired by filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa, Robert Bresson and Takeshi Kitano. He is known for his peculiar combat...
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    period dubbed the "Golden Age of Japanese cinema", the jidaigeki films of Akira Kurosawa as well as the science fiction films of Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya...
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    Japanese actress, and the wife of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa for 39 years. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter...
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  • Cutting on action (category Filmmaking stubs)
    motive rhythm of the exit in the first shot. Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa had "a tendency to cut from one shot to another on the motion of an actor to...
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  • Slow motion (category Cinematic techniques)
    through the use of multiple cameras, as well as mixing slow-motion with live action in other scenes. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a pioneer using...
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  • Argento Frank Capra Sergei Eisenstein Alfred Hitchcock Lev Kuleshov Akira Kurosawa John McTiernan Martin Scorsese Hiroshi Shimizu Steven Spielberg Sadao...
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  • The French Connection (film) (category Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department)
    filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited The French Connection as one of his favorite films. Director David Fincher cited The French Connection as one of the five...
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  • Wipe (transition) (category Cinematic techniques)
    a similar use of wipes by Akira Kurosawa. Since at least the 1980s, the American game show The Price is Right has made extensive use of wipes, usually...
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    Takeshi Kitano (category Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    this honor after Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Inagaki. In October 2017, Kitano completed his Outrage crime trilogy with the release of Outrage Coda. He...
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    Sometimes, auteurist film directors edit their own films, for example, Akira Kurosawa, Bahram Beyzai, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers. According...
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    Deep focus (category Photographic techniques)
    because they believe it represents reality better. Filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Kenji Mizoguchi, Orson Welles, Masahiro Shinoda, Akio...
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    2010. Retrieved September 1, 2010. Kurosawa, Akira; Cardullo, Bert (2008). Akira Kurosawa: interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-997-2...
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    Star Wars sources and analogues (category Issues of cultural influence)
    000 years". Akira Kurosawa films: The Hidden Fortress (1958) – A New Hope features the exploits of C-3PO and R2-D2, whereas the plot of The Hidden Fortress...
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    Abbas Kiarostami (category Akira Kurosawa Award winners)
    peers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Nanni Moretti, and Chris Marker. Akira Kurosawa said of Kiarostami's films: "Words cannot describe my feelings about them...
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  • create the film, and therefore differed from his own techniques, following the common filmmaking process in order to please them and make a pure-entertainment...
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  • the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). During Japanese cinema's 'Golden Age' of the...
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  • 'Golden Age' of the 1950s and 1960s, successful films included Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954) and The Hidden Fortress (1958) by Akira Kurosawa, as well...
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  • Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out. Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 10 June 2021. "Akira Kurosawa's Top 100...
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    Wes Anderson (category University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    most of his adult life in New York City. He is the brother of author, illustrator and actor Eric Chase Anderson. Anderson's distinctive filmmaking style...
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    Jean-Luc Godard (category Counterculture of the 1960s)
    Godard's film Le Mépris due to his admiration of Godard as a director. Akira Kurosawa listed Breathless as one of his 100 favourite films. Ingmar Bergman strongly...
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  • The Apu Trilogy (category Cinema of West Bengal)
    Martin Scorsese: Akira kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out. 12 January 2021. "Akira Kurosawa's List of His Favourite Movies"...
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