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Kurosawa
Born in 1910 in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer.
In 1936, he wrote his first screenplay, "The Germans in Dharma Temple", which entered the film circle. In 1943, he independently directed his debut film "Zi Sanshiro", which broke box office records after its release, and Kurosawa Akira received attention. In 1950, the suspense film Rashomon won the Golden Lion Award at the 16th Venice International Film Festival and the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 24th Academy Awards. On the afternoon of September 6, 1998, Akira Kurosawa died of a stroke in Tokyo at the age of 88.
In 1990, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 62nd Academy Awards.
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Born in Tokyo in 1910 to a samurai family, he grew up studying kendo, calligraphy, and painting under strict tutoring. His first exposure to film was when he was 7 years old, and his father showed him mostly Westerns and martial arts movies.
Kurosawa's intellectual development was late in his childhood, but he soon showed his talent for painting and aspired to become a painter.
In 1934, Akira Kurosawa saw a job advertisement for PCL Pictures (the predecessor of Toho Pictures) in the newspaper, so he submitted a film thesis, and as a result, he won an interview opportunity, and later studied directing and screenwriting under the director Kajiro Yamamoto.
In 1943, he became famous for directing his first film, Zi Sanshiro. In 1950, he directed the film Rashomon, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, thus becoming a world-class director. In 1954, he directed the most famous film in the history of Japanese cinema, Seven Samurai.
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Time title Starring 1943 Zi Sanshiro Ōkawa Nobujiro, Fujita Jin 1944 most beautiful Shimura Joe, Kiyokawa Shoji 1945 Tiger Tail Ōkawa Nobujiro, Fujita Shinshiro Sanshiro sequel Ōkawa Nobujiro Kawachi, Fujita Jin 1946 to create tomorrow's people Fujita Jin, Takayama Hideko I have no regrets about youth, Fujita Jin 1947 beautiful Sunday Numazaki Hoshi, Nakahoku Chieko 1948 muddy angel Shimura Joe, Mifunefune Toshiro 1949 Quiet Night Duel Mifune Toshiro, Toshiro Mifune in Yoshino inu Shimura, Tosshiro Mifune in the 1950 scandal, Tosso Mifune in the 1950 scandal, Toshiro Mifune in Yoshiro 1951, Toshiro Mifune in 1951, Toshiro Mifune in 1955, Toshiro Mifune in the lower level of Shimura in 1957, Toshiro Mifune in the lower level of Kagawa Kyoko, Toshiro Mifune in 1958 Senda Isuzu 1958 Sengoku Hideyoshi Mifune, Toshiro Mifune in 1960 Lazy Man Mifune, Toshiro Mifune, Tosshiro Mifune, Toshiro Mifune, Toshiro Mifune, Who Masayuki 1961 Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakayo 1962 Tsubaki Sanshiro Mifune Toshiro, Tatsuya Nakayo 1963 Heaven and Hell Kyoko Kagawa, Toshiro Mifune 1965 Red BeardEdu toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama 1970 Train Madman Yoshitaka, Sugai Koto 1975 Delsu Uzala Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin 1980 Shadow Samurai Tatsuya, Yamazaki Nu 1985 Chaos Nakadai Tatsuya, Satoshi Terao 1990 Yumeji Satoshi, Mieko Harada In August 1991 rhapsody Quikawa Hisaki, Naomi Chikushima 1993 Sunset Love Matsumura Tatsuo, Kagawa Kyoko
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Academy Awards
▪ 1990 62nd Academy Awards - Lifetime Achievement Award (winner)
▪ 1986 58th Academy Awards - Best Director Chaos (Nominated)
▪ 1981 53rd Academy Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Awards Filmmaker (Nominated)
▪ 1976 48th Academy Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Delsu Uzara (Winner)
▪ 1972 44th Academy Awards - Best Foreign Language Film Trammania (Nominated)
Venice International Film Festival
▪ 1982 39th Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement (winner)
▪ 1965 30th Venice International Film Festival - International Catholic FilmVisual Association Awards Red Beard (winner)
▪ 1965 30th Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion Award for Best Film Red Beard (Nominated)
▪ 1963 28th Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion Award for Best Film Heaven and Hell (Nominated)
▪ 1961 26th Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion Award for Best Film With a Heart (Nominated)
▪ 1957 22nd Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion Award for Best Film Spider's Nest City (Nominated)
▪ 1954 19th Venice International Film Festival - Best Director Award Seven Samurai (Winner)
▪ 1954 19th Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion Award for Best Film Seven Samurai (Nominated)
▪ 1951 16th Venice International Film Festival - Italian Film Critics Awards Rashomon (Winner)
▪ 1951 16th Venice International Film Festival - Golden Lion Award for Best Film Rashomon (Winner)
Berlin International Film Festival
▪ 1961 11th Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear for Best Film Sloth Sleeper (Nominated)
▪ 1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival - Best Director Award Warring States Hero (Winner)
▪ 1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival - Film Critics Fabisi Award Warring States Hero (Winner)
▪ 1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear for Best Film Warring States Hero (Nominated)
▪ 1954 4th Berlin International Film Festival - Berlin Senate Special Prize Desire of Life (Winner)
Japan Academy Film Awards
▪ 2001 24th Best Screenplay The Rain Stopped (Award-Winning)
▪ 1999 22nd Association Honor Awards Association Honors Awards (Awarded)
▪ 1992 15th Best Screenplay August Rhapsody (Nominated)
▪ 1992 15th Best Director August Rhapsody (Nominated)
▪ 1991 14th Best Director Dream (Nominated)
Individual Awards
▪ 1998 Honorary National Award (Award)
▪ 1985 Medal of Culture of Japan (Award)
Cannes International Film Festival
▪ 1980 33rd Cannes International Film Festival - Palme d'Or for Best Film (Winner)
▪ 1959 9th Cannes International Film Festival - Palme d'Or for Best Film Record of a Living Man (Nominated)
Moscow International Film Festival
▪ 1972 9th Moscow International Film Festival - Gold Medal for Best Film Delsu Uzara (Winner)
Most of the characters in Kurosawa's films are active in pessimistic lives, their values are never polluted by the reality of society, and the characters in them make sacrifices for higher ideals from time to time, always shoulder a social responsibility, and even become the backbone of the country.
Most of Kurosawa's films are from the perspective of social problems, deeply analyzing the reasons, and his films integrate a rich social culture and national spirit, so that the magnificent pictures of his films often contain rich cultural heritage, thus making his works become classics.
In Akira Kurosawa's films, many characters have fierce emotional confrontations, and these confrontation scenes are given a film language full of tension and strength, achieving unexpected results. In the film Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa uses a pure cinematic approach to reveal the relativity and subjectivity of truth, and the relative authenticity of each character's testimony must be judged by the audience. This relativity and subjectivity of truth, embodied in audiovisual language, is Akira Kurosawa's poetic use of composition and scenes.
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《Figure Sanshiro》
Zi Sanshiro is a 97-minute action film produced and distributed by Toho Pictures in Japan. Directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Noburo Ōkawa, Jin Fujita, Kiko Hiroshi, and Joe Shimura, the film was released in Japan on March 25, 1943. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Tomita Tomoo, the film tells the story of Zi Sanshiro, who in the process of learning judo, grows from a reckless young man who is brave and fierce to a judo martial artist.
"Zi Sanshiro" tells the resonance of "martial soul" and life. The details of the whole film are very good, from the costumes, architecture, etiquette, appearance, etc., all so appropriate, which has a considerable relationship with Akira Kurosawa's carefully crafted script. The growth of a judo genius, from the stunned "boy" has always been immature, but it is this immaturity that has created the ultimate pursuit of martial arts, and the process of Becoming a Jade is to ponder, and the process of Zi Sanshiro is to respect tradition, especially the reproduction of the samurai spirit, and adapt to the requirements of the environment. In the theme song of the movie, "Go relaxed and happy, come back scared." "Akira Kurosawa portrays the battle scene differently every time. Expressed in masculine love and only smoking to the end, this highly stylized film finally realized Akira Kurosawa's pursuit.
Rashomon
Rashomon is a 1950 suspense film co-produced by Japan's Daiei Film Co., Ltd. and the American Raiden Hua Film Company. The film was directed by Akira Kurosawa, co-written by Ryunosuke Wasagawa and Shinobu Hashimoto, and starred Toshiro Mifune, Kyo Machiko, Masayuki Sen, and Joe Shimura.
Based on the short story "In the Shinobu Bamboo" by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Wasagawa, the film is set in the Heian Dynasty of Japan, which was plagued by wars, natural disasters, and diseases, and mainly tells the story of a case caused by the killing of a samurai and the various events and events that people accuse each other of being murderers after the incident. The film won the Golden Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival in 1951 and the 23rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
"Rashomon" combines the plot of Ryunosuke Wasagawa's novel, using a unique technique of multiple parallel narratives, telling the death events in the jungle, each character's monologue is a fragment of the whole event, through the refraction of man's selfish nature, these monologues themselves are unreliable, the same reason, the narrator who paraphrases these monologues is also unreliable, death exposes humanity to the summer sun, man's sadness and smallness, man's greatness and sincerity. And by telling death, he understands his soul, giving death itself a deeper philosophical connotation.
The Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai is an action film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Joe Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima. The film mainly depicts the story of the Japanese Sengoku period, the poor villagers joined forces with seven hired samurai to fight off the bandits in order to defend their homeland. The film won the Silver Lion Award at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.
The film can be said to be the first era drama by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa that really joined the fun of Western films, depicting the story of the Japanese Sengoku period, when the people of the poor village joined hands with seven hired samurai to fight off the bandits in order to defend their homeland. Although director Akira Kurosawa intends to make this film into a completely entertaining action film, in fact, the whole work still fully exudes the humane spirit of Akira Kurosawa.
"Seven Samurai" is the most important work in the history of Japanese cinema, and was selected as the first best work in history by the "Movie Shunbun". Akira Kurosawa filmed the killing scene very exciting and realistic, the series of fierce battles of gunma rushing to kill, mud swamp vicious fight, under the use of rapid editing, long focal length and slow mirror, all the images condensed into one, gripping, not only changed the tradition of Japanese martial arts films, but also had a profound impact on many martial arts films.
Delsu Uzara
Delsu Uzara is a drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Maksim Munzuk and Yuri Solomin.
Adapted from the Russian geographer Arsenyev's travelogue "In the Wild Forest of Ussuri", the film tells the story of the friendship between the Russian officer Arsenyev and the Hezhe hunter Delsu Uzara that transcends class and rank. The film was released in Japan on August 2, 1975.
Vivid, concrete, and artistic, the film expresses a profound philosophical idea: the law of being born in nature and returning to nature is insurmountable. When Delssou hunts and discovers that signs of declining eyesight and aging have crept into him, Arsenyev understands that Delsu's life in the jungle is coming to an end, and it all goes naturally. The union between man and nature is not idyllic, and tragedy is inevitable. In the film, Akira Kurosawa uses exquisite long shots to deal with the relationship between man and nature, showing the harsh winter and summer of Ussuri, colorful woods, campfires, snowstorms, footprints and rivers, showing the humanity of Delsu Uzara, who believes in the animism of all things, fears nature, cherishes life, protects the environment and loves and hates, and shows the friendship between Arsenyev and Delsu Uzara that transcends class and rank.
Shadow Samurai
Shadow Samurai is a war history film produced by Toho Pictures in Japan. The film was directed by Akira Kurosawa and starred Tatsuya Nakayo, Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Shinhachi Nezu, and Hideharu Otaki.
The film tells the story of The Sengoku period of Japan, takeda Shingen defeated the alliance of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, but died in the army, and at the first moment of crisis, several courtiers secretly found a thief with a face that resembled Shingen and pretended to be Shingen to stabilize the hearts of the army, and maintained the story for three years.
"Shadow Samurai" is in a way a portrayal of the director's five years of creative dilemma, he feels as if he is not in tune with the times, the old traditions are no longer recognized, which contains deep sadness. He injects this deep sadness into "Shadow Samurai", the spear and cavalry of the Takeda Army compared to the musket of the Oda Army, who was killed by the musket to protect the shadow warrior, but to die in a posture with a sword, all of which hint at the disappearance of a glorious tradition, the honor of the samurai and the principles of the samurai world are vulnerable to modern weapons, and "Shadow Samurai" is like a sad elegy composed by Akira Kurosawa to the end of the samurai world. In this film, Akira Kurosawa is more obsessed with letting the audience feel the disappearance of the samurai world and the beauty contained in it. He wanted the beauty of the world to continue, even if he saw that it was unrealistic in the light of the dawn of the world now.
Akira Kurosawa, who was called "the Shakespeare of the film industry" by American director Spielberg, used magnificent momentum, rich colors, tit-for-tat confrontation and conflict, and unique image modeling to show the audience the pain, madness, desire, destruction, joy, liberation, warmth, confusion and other scenes of life, and profoundly and ruthlessly dissected and displayed the human soul.
Director's keywords: social responsibility, sensitive humanitarianism, facing reality, the choice and abandonment of the times, the director who loves to draw, the poetic audiovisual language. A digger of the Japanese national spirit and traditional culture.
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