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Akira Kurosawa

Highest Rated:: 100% The Hidden Fortress (kakushi-toride No San-akunin) (1958)
Lowest Rated:: 53% Dreams (1990)

Birthday:: Mar 23, 1910
Birthplace:: Omori, Tokyo, Japan
Bio:: The most well-known of all Japanese directors, the great irony about Akira Kurosawa's career is that he's been far more popular outside of Japan than in Japan. The son of an army officer, Kurosawa studied art before gravitating to film as a means of supporting himself. He served seven years as an…

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Highest Rated Movies

The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)
100%
Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live)
100%
Rash�mon (Rashomon) (In the Woods)
100%
Drunken Angel
100%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 53% - 100%

Number of Movies: 33

Box Office Since 2001: --

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2002	58%	The Sea Is Watching	Screenwriter	--
2001		Kurosawa	Himself	--
1993	87%	Madadayo	Screenwriter Director	--
1991	67%	Rhapsody in August	Screenwriter Director	--
1990	53%	Dreams	Director Screenwriter	--
1985		A.K.	Actor	--
1985	97%	Ran	Screenwriter Director	--
1980	86%	Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior) (The Double)	Director Screenwriter	--
1975	75%	Dersu Uzala	Director	--
1970	57%	Clickety-Clack (Dodesukaden)	Director Producer	--
1965	82%	Akahige (Red Beard)	Director	--
1962	100%	The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)	Director Producer	--
1962	93%	High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (Heaven and Hell)	Director Screenwriter	--
1962	100%	Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanj�r�)	Director Screenwriter	--
1961	97%	Yojimbo	Director Screenwriter	--
1958	100%	The Hidden Fortress (kakushi-toride No San-akunin)	Director	--
1957	97%	Kumonosu J� (Throne of Blood) (Macbeth)	Director	--
1957	80%	Donzoko (The Lower Depths)	Screenwriter Director	--
1955	70%	I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku)	Screenwriter Director	--
1954	100%	Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)	Director Screenwriter	--
1952	100%	Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live)	Director	--
1951	100%	Rash�mon (Rashomon) (In the Woods)	Screenwriter Director	--
1951	75%	Hakuchi (The Idiot)	Screenwriter Director	--
1950		Scandal (Shubun)	Director Screenwriter	--
1949		Shizukanaru ketto (The Quiet Duel) (A Silent Duel)	Director	--
1949	94%	Stray Dog (Nora inu)	Screenwriter Director	--
1948	100%	Drunken Angel	Screenwriter Director	--
1947	86%	Subarashiki Nichiyobi (One Wonderful Sunday)	Director	--
1946		Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi (No Regrets for Our Youth)	Director Screenwriter	--
1945		Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (Sanshiro Sugata 2) (Judo Saga II) (Judo Story II)	Director	--
1945	83%	They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (Walkers on the Tiger's Tail)	Director	--
1944		The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku)	Director Screenwriter	--
1943		Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga) (Judo Story)	Director	--