FILM DIRECTOR

Akira Kurosawa

1910 - 1998

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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 six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it. He was involved with all aspects of film production. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Kurosawa is the 4th most popular film director (up from 8th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Japan (down from 6th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Film Director.

Akira Kurosawa is most famous for his samurai films.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Akira Kurosawa ranks 4 out of 2,041. Before him are Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Hayao Miyazaki. After him are David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, and D. W. Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him is Mother Teresa. After him are Giuseppe Meazza, Jacques Cousteau, Ingrid of Sweden, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Robert K. Merton, Archer Martin, Lee Byung-chul, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Gloria Stuart. Among people deceased in 1998, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him is Pol Pot. After him are Frank Sinatra, Halldór Laxness, Alan Hodgkin, Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, and Carlos Castaneda.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Kurosawa ranks 7 out of 6,245. Before him are Hirohito (1901), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Hokusai (1760), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), and Oda Nobunaga (1534). After him are Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), and Haruki Murakami (1949).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941). After him are Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Shohei Imamura (1926), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Hideaki Anno (1960).

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