Akira Kurosawa

黒澤明

[Wiki (jp)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/黒澤明) | [Wiki (en)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa) Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer, regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga). After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films. Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn le

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