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KUROSAWA, AKIRA

äkēˈrä koorōˈsäwä, 1910–98, Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and producer, b. Tokyo. He is regarded as one of the world's greatest directors. In Rashomon (1950), he introduced Western audiences to Japanese film. Its bleakly humanistic stance toward the slippery nature of truth and its highly charged visual style marked Kurosawa's approach. His 29 other films range freely through history, often adapting classics of Western literature, including several of Shakespeare's plays, to Japanese settings and attitudes. His films include Ikiru (1952), a moving study of an elderly bureaucrat facing death from cancer; Seven Samurai (1954), an epic adventure; Throne of Blood (1957), an adaption of Macbeth; Yojimbo (1961), a rousing Japanese-style Western; Ran (1985), a sweeping version of King Lear; Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990), surreal vignettes that present an apocalyptic vision of human civilization; Rhapsody in August (1991), a grandmother's painful recollection of the Nagasaki bombing; and his last work, Madadayo (1993), a small, serene, and touching account of an elderly and beloved professor. In 1989 he received an Academy Award for the body of his work.

See his autobiography (1982); studies by D. Richie (1965, 1970); S. Galbraith 4th, The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (2002).

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German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years: Transforming American Management and Technology Models
Book by Akira Kudo, Matthias Kipping, Harm G. Schröter; Routledge, 2003
...researchers of business and economic history. Akira Kudo is Professor at the Institute of...management and technology models Edited by Akira Kudo, Matthias Kipping and Harm G. Schroter...management and technology models Edited by Akira Kudo, Matthias Kipping and Harm G. Schroter...

Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader
Book by Nancy G. Hume; State University of New York Press, 1995
Subjects:	Aesthetics, Japanese, Arts, Japanese--Philosophy
...Rashomon" , which along with his "In a Grove" "Yabu no naka" formed the basis for the famous 1950 film by Kurosawa Akira. In the postwar period, prominent writers such as Mishima Yukio used both contemporary events, such as the burning...

Artists, Writers, and Musicians: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World
Book by Michel-André Bossy, Thomas Brothers, John C. Mcenroe, Kim Domenico, Steven Goldberg, James Manheim, Deborah Pokinski, Sasha Watson; Oryx Press, 2001
Subjects:	Artists--Biography, Arts
...Kahlo, Frida Kalthum, Umm Keats, John Kern, Jerome Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Koetsu Kurosawa* Akira Lawrence, Jacob Lennon, John and Paul McCartney Leonardo da Vinci Lin, Maya Liszt, Franz...*

Film and the Critical Eye
Book by Dennis DeNitto, William Herman; Macmillan, 1975
Subjects:	Motion Picture Plays--History And Criticism
...11 Rashomon KUROSAWA 243...cinema" is included in our analysis of Kurosawa Rashomon. Types of films and film genres...Artful use of the wipe is made by Kurosawa in Rashomon . Voice over: A voice...

Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima
Book by Abé Mark Nornes; University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Subjects:	Documentary Films--Japan--History And Criticism
...puts the family name first (as in Kurosawa Akira). A few figures are famous personalities...Yamane Sadao, Ishizaka Kenji, Shimizu Akira, Ikui Eik6, and Tanikawa Yoshio...for the controversy between Iwasaki Akira and the membership of the dojinsbi...

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journal articles on: Kurosawa Akira - 36 results

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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 25, 2002
Subjects:	Autobiographies--Evaluation, Autobiographies--Works, Biography--Evaluation, Biography--Works, Conduct of life--Bibliography, Life--Bibliography
...Paulin. TLS, Mar. 8, 2002: 3-4. Kurosawa, Akira, and Toshiro Mifune The Emperor...the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. Stuart Galbraith...2002: 13. Mifune, Toshiro. See Kurosawa, Akira. Milner, Alfred. See Cecil...

Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama
Journal article by Peter G. Platt; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 48, 2008
Subjects:	Elizabethan drama
...primarily in fictions based on Hamlet); and on film (an especially valuable examination of the Shakespearean work of Kurosawa Akira). Zdenek Stribrnys The Whirligig of Time: Essays on Shakespeare and Czechoslovakia brings together the noted Czech...

Orson Welles's Shakespeare Films: An Annotated Checklist
Journal article by Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez; Shakespeare Bulletin, Vol. 23, 2005
Subjects:	Film adaptations--Criticism and interpretation, Film adaptations--Influence, Film adaptations--Works, Movie adaptations--Criticism and interpretation, Movie adaptations--Influence, Movie adaptations--Works, Shakespeare, William--Influence, Welles, Orson--Criticism and interpretation, Welles, Orson--Influence, Welles, Orson--Works
...Welles and Polanski as well as Akira Kurosawas Throne of Blood (1957). A12...Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988...Orson Welles, Roman Polanski e Akira Kurosawa." Studi Urbinati, Serie B: Scienze...

The Films of Abbas Kiarostami: Framing the Burdens of Contemporary Muslim Identities
Journal article by Farouk Mitha; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 31, 2009
Subjects:	Filmmakers--Interviews, Kiarostami, Abbas--Interviews, Movie directors--Interviews
...Words cannot describe my feelings about his films." Akira Kurosawa "We are living in the age of Kiarostami, but dont...films from renowned and such diverse directors as Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Goddard, Werner Herzog Martin Scorsese and...

A Taxonomy of Alternative Plots in Recent Films: Classifying the "Tarantino Effect"
Journal article by Charles Ramirez Berg; Film Criticism, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects:	Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, Narrative art (Visual arts)--Criticism and interpretation, Storytelling--Forecasts and trends, Storytelling--Methods, Tarantino, Quentin--Works
...Orson Welles (Citizen Kane 1941), Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, 1951), and Stanley...Orson Welles) Rashomon (1950, d. Akira Kurosawa) The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez...giving discrete parts of the event. Akira Kurosawa adopted both techniques to structure...

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Samurai Warrior: The Director Akira Kurosawa Influenced Many of the West's Most Famous Film-Makers. Philip Kerr Sizes Up Japan's Original Action Man
Magazine article by Philip Kerr; New Statesman, Vol. 131, January 7, 2002
Subjects:	Filmmakers, Ford, John, Kurosawa, Akira--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kurosawa, Akira--Influence, Kurosawa, Akira--Works, Motion picture plays--Authorship
Samurai warrior: the director Akira Kurosawa influenced many of the wests most...his first trip outside Japan, Akira Kurosawa. So it is perhaps fitting that...and dont strike a match. The Akira Kurosawa retrospective runs at the National...

Bonjour, Kurosawa
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 25, April 2008
Subjects:	Filmmakers--Appreciation, Filmmakers--Works, Kurosawa, Akira--Appreciation, Kurosawa, Akira--Works, Movie directors--Appreciation, Movie directors--Works
...saw a retrospective of recently deceased filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The directors gritty meditation on feudal-era poverty...Angeles, many of whom are or were recently homeless. "Kurosawa envisions a dynamic in which degradation is transformed...

Black Rain: Reflections on Hiroshima and Nuclear War in Japanese Film
Magazine article by Robert Feleppa; Cross Currents, Vol. 54, Spring 2004
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira, Motion picture theaters, Motion pictures, Movie theaters, Movies, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear warfare in motion pictures
...Being and Rhapsody in August, by Akira Kurosawa; and Black Rain, by Shohei Imamura...Broderick. Goodwin, James. 1996. "Akira Kurosawa and the Atomic Age" in Broderick...Kodansha. (Trans. John Bester) Kurosawa, Akira and Richie (eds.). 1996. Rashomon...

Uncle Sam-Urai
Magazine article by Andrew Billen; New Statesman, Vol. 129, May 22, 2000
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira--Works, The Magnificent Seven (Motion picture)--Production and direction
...not just that it was a remake of Akira Kurosawas 1954 film, The Seven Samurai, but...optioned the rights, for $250, from Kurosawa, who, as a John Ford fan, saw the...although the templates were there in Kurosawas plot and Newmans aphoristic dialogue...

Understanding Suffering and Compassion
Magazine article by Jeanine Young-Mason; Cross Currents, Vol. 51, Fall 2001
Subjects:	Epic of Gilgamesh (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ikiru (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kurosawa, Akira--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mason, Herbert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rodin, Auguste--Works, Suffering--Analysis, Sympathy--Analysis, The Death of Ivan Ilych (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tolstoy, Leo--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Selected works of Rodin, Tolstoi, Kurosawa, and Mason show us compassion in action...The message of the Japanese director Kurosawas film Ikiru is much like Tolstois, but...greater vividness and immediacy. Akin Kurosawas artistry developed through formal study...

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`Samurai' Remains Sharp-Edged Drama: AFI's Revival of This Japanese Classic Is Tribute to Director Akira Kurosawa
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, December 4, 1998
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira
...classic is tribute to director Akira Kurosawa by Gary Arnold Unable...to the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who was 88 when he died in September...allusions) CREDITS: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto...

Kurosawa and Mifune Together at AFI; Tribute Presents 12 of Their Films
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 10, 2002
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira
...12 of the 16 movies that were directed by the late Akira Kurosawa and memorably enhanced by the starring presence of...Film retrospective consisting of 12 films directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, originally released in...

Masterful 'Samurai'; AFI Revives Kurosawa, Mifune Collaboration
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 31, 2002
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira, Mifune, Toshiro
...TIMES The current revival of Akira Kurosawas "Seven Samurai" at the American...in his 1965 book "The Films of Akira Kurosawa." Mr. Richies appreciation was...setting) CREDITS: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Screenplay by Mr. Kurosawa, Shinobu...

Shakespeare in Translation; AFI Showcases Japanese Classics
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 12, 2007
Subjects:	King Lear (Play), Kurosawa, Akira, Shakespeare, William, Throne of Blood (Motion picture)
...achievements in this tradition: Akira Kurosawas "Throne of Blood" (1957) and...a scenic framework created by Akira Kurosawa. +++++ SERIES: "Shakespeare in...episodes) CREDITS:: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto...

Happy Birthday, 'Samurai'; Kurosawa's Classic Released in U.S. in '56
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 5, 2006
Subjects:	Kurosawa, Akira
...TIMES Does the new DVD edition of Akira Kurosawas "Seven Samurai," the greatest...Japanese cinema in general and Akira Kurosawa in particular during the post...a Japanese compilation titled "Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful To Create." There...

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encyclopedia articles on: Kurosawa Akira - 5 results

Kurosawa, Akira
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KUROSAWA, AKIRA ake ra kooro sawa, 1910 98, Japanese...a sweeping version of King Lear ; Akira Kurosawas Dreams (1990), surreal vignettes that...and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (2002...

Mifune, Toshiro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...He appeared in more than a dozen films for director Akira Kurosawa , including Stray Dog (1949), Rashomon (1950...The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (2002...

Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...individualistic style. "Rashomon"(1915) and "In a Grove" (1921) were made into the classic 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa . His later writings, largely autobiographical fiction, were not successful, and this lack of popular response may...

Motion Pictures
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...increasingly appreciative Western audience. Akira Kurosawa s films, including Rashomon, Seven...films include Katusuhiro Otomos Akira (1988), Mamoru Oshiis Ghost in...1999); S. J. Napier, Anime from "Akira" to "Princess Monoke" (2000...

Lucas, George W., Jr
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the stalwart hero escapes. In addition, he has provided financial sponsorship for more traditional work, such as Akira Kurosawa s Ran (1985). In 1987 he won a special Academy Award for lifetime achievement. By the early 1990s he controlled...

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