Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa was born on 23 March 1910 in Tokyo, the youngest of eight children. He first wanted to be a painter. He joined P.C.L., the future Tōhō, as an assistant in 1936, studied there under Yamamoto Kajirō and directed his first film in 1943. In the late sixties, his projects failed one after another; he survived a suicide attempt in 1971 and afterwards shot films with foreign funding. He received an honorary Oscar in 1990 and died in Tokyo on 6 September 1998.

In the catalogue 5

• CinemaStray Dog野良犬Akira Kurosawa · 1949Cinema
• CinemaRashomon羅生門Akira Kurosawa · 1950Cinema
• CinemaSeven Samurai七人の侍Akira Kurosawa · 1954Cinema
• CinemaKagemusha影武者Akira Kurosawa · 1980Cinema
• CinemaRan乱Akira Kurosawa · 1985Cinema