Akira Kurosawa

Director, Akira Kurosawa, was born on Mar 23, 1910 in Tokyo, Japan. Kurosawa died at the age of 88 on Sep 6, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Kurosawa was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award. However he won one Honorary Oscar Award in 1989 for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.

Academy Awards

Year	Award	Film name	Role	Result
1985	Best Director	Ran (1985)	N/A	Nominated

Academy Awards (Honorary Oscars)

Year	Award	Description
1989	Honorary Award	for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world

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Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 27, 2018 From The Stop Button

Seven Samurai is about a farming village, under imminent threat of bandits raiding and stealing their crop?and possibly doing much worse?who decides to hire samurai to defend them. They send four men?Fujiwara Kamatari, Kosugi Yoshio, Tsuchiya Yoshio, and Hidari Bokuzen?to town to hire the samurai. T... Read full article

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Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa Akira)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 4, 2016 From The Stop Button

Where to start with Rashomon? Starting at the beginning means talking about the bookends–three strangers stranded in the rain, two telling the third different versions of the same story, each ostensibly true. The rain pours down around them, drowning out their voices. Rashomon is a film withou... Read full article

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Takashi Shimura and

By Michael on Jan 23, 2016 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Note : this review is a contribution to Symbiotic Collaborations blogathon hosted by CineMaven’s Essays From the Couch. Takashi Shimura and While Japanese film director doesn’t need an introduction amongst cinephiles, actor Takashi Shimura is a mor... Read full article

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Drunken Angel (1948, Kurosawa Akira)

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 25, 2015 From The Stop Button

Drunken Angel never hides its sentimentality. The film’s protagonist, an alcoholic doctor working in a slum (Shimura Takashi in a glorious performance), is well aware of his sentimentality. He resents it–Shimura has these great yelling and throwing scenes–but it’s what keeps ... Read full article

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What If…? ’s (Sort Of) Top 100 Films List

By Michael on Aug 18, 2014 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

Okay, let me go ahead and admit up front that the headline up above is – in the best internet tradition – at least slightly misleading. No, the acclaimed Japanese director never made a top 100 films list. As his daughter, Kazuko Kurosawa states, “My father always sai... Read full article

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