1.2.3 Birth of a company and Red Beard (1959–65).1.2 Early postwar years to Red Beard (1946–65).His career has been honored by many retrospectives, critical studies and biographies in both print and video, and by releases in many consumer media. Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited there as being among the five people who most prominently contributed to the improvement of Asia in the 20th century. In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. After the 1960s he became much less prolific even so, his later work-including two of his final films, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)-continued to receive great acclaim. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded (and often adapted) films, such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961). 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 led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival.
The two men would go on to collaborate on another fifteen films.
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. 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. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in film history.
Academy Award (1990, Lifetime Achievement)Īkira Kurosawa ( Japanese: 黒澤 明, Hepburn: Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades.
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