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Akira Kurosawa was a renowned Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. His films have inspired many filmmakers, including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese.
Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910, in Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan. He was the youngest of seven children born to Isamu and Shima Kurosawa. His father was a former military officer and his mother was a housewife.
Kurosawa began his career as an assistant director in 1936, and his first film as a director was Sanshiro Sugata (1943). He went on to direct some of the most acclaimed films of all time, including Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), and Yojimbo (1961). He also directed the epic period drama Ran (1985), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Kurosawa was married twice, first to Yoko Yaguchi and then to actress Yoko Tsukasa. He had two children, Hisao and Kazuko.
Kurosawa died on September 6, 1998, at the age of 88. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Culture, Japan's highest honor for artistic achievement.
As of 2021, Akira Kurosawa's net worth is estimated to be roughly $20 million.
| Popular As |
The Emperor, Wind Man |
| Occupation |
writer,director,assistant_director |
| Age |
88 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
23 March, 1910 |
| Birthday |
23 March |
| Birthplace |
Shinagawa, Tokyo, Empire of Japan |
| Date of death |
September 6, 1998 |
| Died Place |
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality |
Japan |
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Akira Kurosawa Height, Weight & Measurements
At 88 years old, Akira Kurosawa height is 182 cm .
| Physical Status |
| Height |
182 cm |
| Weight |
Not Available |
| Body Measurements |
Not Available |
| Eye Color |
Not Available |
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Who Is Akira Kurosawa's Wife?
His wife is Yōko Yaguchi (m. 1945-1985)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
Yōko Yaguchi (m. 1945-1985) |
| Sibling |
Not Available |
| Children |
Hisao (b. 1945–) and Kazuko (b. 1954–) |
Akira Kurosawa Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Akira Kurosawa worth at the age of 88 years old? Akira Kurosawa’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from Japan. We have estimated
Akira Kurosawa's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
| Cars |
Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Writer |
Akira Kurosawa Social Network
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Although his "samurai" films are considered the archetypal samurai films over the rest of the world, they were actually considered atypical in Japan. Most Japanese samurai films had been set in the 18th & 19th centuries, when a peaceful Japan was at the peak of its nationalism, with the largest number of bushido code-adhering samurai. Kurosawa's films typically feature individualistic "ronin" (masterless samurai) rather than true "samurai" and a majority are set in the far more chaotic feudal periods (16th-17th centuries) when the Japanese were engaged in civil war.
The Akira Kurosawa School of Film was launched in April 2015, offering an online Master of Fine Arts in Digital Filmmaking.
Interviewed in "World Directors in Dialogue" by Bert Cardullo (Scarecrow Press, 2011).
Ranked #6 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Greatest directors ever!" [2005]
A theoretical interpretation of his work can be found in "Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema" by James Goodwin, published by Johns Hopkins in 1994.
" He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî (1991) and Mâdadayo (1993).
In December 1971, after a period of suffering from mental fatigue and frustrated with a run of unsatisfying and sub par directing work, Kurosawa attempted suicide by slashing his wrist thirty times with a razor. Fortunately, the wounds were not fatal and he made a full recovery.
He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear.
Keisuke Kinoshita, Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa and Masaki Kobayashi founded their own company, Yonki No Kai ('Club of The Four Knights'), in 1969 to assert an independent film making process and escape the studio system. They managed to produce only one movie, Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970).
After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide.
Several of his films have been remade in America as westerns. Seven Samurai (1954) ("The Seven Samurai") was remade as The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Yojimbo (1961) ("The Bodyguard") was remade as A Fistful of Dollars (1964). In addition, The Hidden Fortress (1958) ("The Hidden Fortress") was a major inspiration for the "Star Wars" saga, which takes many inspirations from westerns and is often referred to as a space western. Common story elements include Gen. Makabe, who became Obi-Wan Kenobi; Princess Yuki, who became Princess Leia and whose trick of disguising herself as a handmaiden would later be used by Queen Amidala; and the farmers from whose viewpoint the film is told, Matashichi and Tahei, whose constant bickering inspired C-3PO and R2-D2.
The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962).
After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashômon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West.
Drunken Angel (1948)--"Drunken Angel"--was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford.
He had a son Hisao (b. 20-Dec-1945), and a daughter, award-winning film costume designer Kazuko (b. 29-Apr-1954).
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom.
He was voted the 6th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, making him one among only two Asians along with Satyajit Ray (who is ranked in 25th position) on a list of 50 directors and the highest ranking non-American.
He named the film that made him want to work in cinema as Abel Gance's film La roue (1923), particularly certain kinetic shots of trains.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890- 1945". Pages 583-605. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
