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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…

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Highest Rated Movies

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	--
2002	58%	The Sea Is Watching	Screenwriter	--
2001		Kurosawa	Himself	--
1993	87%	Madadayo	Screenwriter Director	--
1991	50%	Rhapsody in August	Director Screenwriter	--
1990	55%	Dreams	Screenwriter Director	--
1985	97%	Ran	Director Screenwriter	--
1985		A.K.	Actor	--
1980	86%	Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior) (The Double)	Screenwriter Director	--
1975	75%	Dersu Uzala	Director	--
1970	57%	Clickety-Clack (Dodesukaden)	Producer Director	--
1965	75%	Akahige (Red Beard)	Director	--
1962	100%	Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanj�r�)	Director Screenwriter	--
1962	100%	The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)	Producer Director	--
1962	93%	High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (Heaven and Hell)	Screenwriter Director	--
1961	97%	Yojimbo	Screenwriter Director	--
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)	Director Screenwriter	--
1955	70%	I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku)	Director Screenwriter	--
1954	100%	Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)	Director Screenwriter	--
1952	100%	Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live)	Director	--
1951	75%	Hakuchi (The Idiot)	Director Screenwriter	--
1951	100%	Rash�mon (Rashomon) (In the Woods)	Screenwriter Director	--
1950	83%	Scandal (Shubun)	Director Screenwriter	--
1949	94%	Stray Dog (Nora inu)	Screenwriter Director	--
1949		Shizukanaru ketto (The Quiet Duel) (A Silent Duel)	Director	--
1948	100%	Drunken Angel	Director Screenwriter	--
1947	86%	Subarashiki Nichiyobi (One Wonderful Sunday)	Director	--
1946	100%	Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi (No Regrets for Our Youth)	Director Screenwriter	--
1945	83%	They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (Walkers on the Tiger's Tail)	Screenwriter Director	--
1945		Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (Sanshiro Sugata 2) (Judo Saga II) (Judo Story II)	Director	--
1944		The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku)	Screenwriter Director	--
1943		Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga) (Judo Story)	Director	--