Akira Kurosawa

Japanese: 黒沢明 - くろさわあきら

Born: March 23, 1910, Tokyo
[Died] September 6, 1998. Tokyo film director. Graduated from Kyoka Gakuen Junior High School. Joined PCL (the predecessor of Toho) in 1936. After working as an assistant director to Yamamoto Kajiro, he made his debut in 1943 with Sugata Sanshiro. Since then, he has consistently released popular works with dynamic theatrical structure and outstanding beauty of form. In films such as No Regrets for My Youth (1946), which was modeled on the Takigawa and Sorge incidents, Wonderful Sunday (1947), Drunken Angel (1948), and Stray Dog (1949), he explored the customs of the post-World War II era with a rich humanity. His Rashomon (1950) won the San Marco Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, making a major contribution to the expansion of Japanese films overseas. He subsequently released modern dramas such as The Idiot (1951), Ikiru (1952), Record of Creatures (1955), High and Low (1963), and Dodesukaden (1970), as well as period dramas such as Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Bottom (1957), Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro Tsubaki (1962), and Red Beard (1965). In 1975, he was invited to the Soviet Union to direct Dersu Uzala, and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for Kagemusha (1980). In 1984, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur by France, and the following year, in 1985, he became the first filmmaker to receive the Order of Culture. In the same year, he released Ran, an adaptation of King Lear. In 1990, he received an Honorary Academy Award. His creative drive did not wane until the end of his life, and he continued to release new works, including Dreams in 1990 and Rhapsody in August in 1991. His final work was Not Yet (1993), based on a novel by Hyakken Uchida. He was posthumously awarded the People's Honor Award.

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[生]1910.3.23. 東京
[没]1998.9.6. 東京
映画監督。京華学園中学校卒業。 1936年 PCL (東宝の前身) に入社。山本嘉次郎の助監督を経て，1943年『姿三四郎』でデビュー。以後常にダイナミックな劇構成，すぐれた造型美の話題作を発表。滝川事件とゾルゲ事件をモデルにした『わが青春に悔なし』 (1946) ，『素晴らしき日曜日』 (1947) ，『酔いどれ天使』 (1948) ，『野良犬』 (1949) で人間性豊かに第2次世界大戦後の風俗を追求，『羅生門』 (1950) はベネチア国際映画祭サン・マルコ金獅子賞を受け，日本映画の海外進出に大きく貢献した。以後，現代劇『白痴』 (1951) ，『生きる』 (1952) ，『生きものの記録』 (1955) ，『天国と地獄』 (1963) ，『どですかでん』 (1970) ，時代劇『七人の侍』 (1954) ，『蜘蛛巣城』 (1957) ，『どん底』 (1957) ，『用心棒』 (1961) ，『椿三十郎』 (1962) ，『赤ひげ』 (1965) を発表。 1975年にはソビエト連邦に招かれ『デルス・ウザーラ』を監督するなど国際的にも活躍，『影武者』 (1980) でカンヌ国際映画祭のグランプリを獲得。 1984年フランスよりレジオン・ドヌール勲章，翌 1985年映画人として初の文化勲章を受けた。同年『リア王』を翻案した『乱』を発表。 1990年には，アカデミー賞名誉賞を受賞。晩年まで創作意欲は衰えず 1990年『夢』，翌 1991年『八月の狂詩曲 (ラプソディー) 』と新作を発表し続けた。内田百閒原作の『まあだだよ』 (1993) が最後の作品。没後国民栄誉賞が贈られた。

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