Akira Kurosawa

Highest Rated:
100% Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954)
Lowest Rated:
50% Rhapsody in August (1991)
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…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 50% - 100%
Number of Movies: 34
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Shozo (The Portrait)
  • Screenwriter
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2002 58% The Sea Is Watching
  • Screenwriter
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2001 Kurosawa
  • Himself
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1993 87% Madadayo
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1991 50% Rhapsody in August
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1990 55% Dreams
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1985 97% Ran
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1985 A.K.
  • Actor
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1980 86% Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior) (The Double)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1975 75% Dersu Uzala
  • Director
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1970 57% Clickety-Clack (Dodesukaden)
  • Producer
  • Director
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1965 75% Akahige (Red Beard)
  • Director
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1962 100% Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1962 100% The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)
  • Producer
  • Director
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1962 93% High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (Heaven and Hell)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1961 97% Yojimbo
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1958 100% The Hidden Fortress (kakushi-toride No San-akunin)
  • Director
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1957 97% Kumonosu Jô (Throne of Blood) (Macbeth)
  • Director
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1957 80% Donzoko (The Lower Depths)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1955 70% I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1954 100% Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1952 100% Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live)
  • Director
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1951 75% Hakuchi (The Idiot)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1951 100% Rashômon (Rashomon) (In the Woods)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1950 83% Scandal (Shubun)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1949 94% Stray Dog (Nora inu)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1949 Shizukanaru ketto (The Quiet Duel) (A Silent Duel)
  • Director
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1948 100% Drunken Angel
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1947 86% Subarashiki Nichiyobi (One Wonderful Sunday)
  • Director
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1946 100% Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi (No Regrets for Our Youth)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1945 83% They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (Walkers on the Tiger's Tail)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1945 Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (Sanshiro Sugata 2) (Judo Saga II) (Judo Story II)
  • Director
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1944 The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku)
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1943 Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga) (Judo Story)
  • Director
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