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	Akira Kurosawa - MSN Encarta
		Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Japanese motion-picture director, known worldwide for the variety and visual beauty of his films.
		Kurosawa also directed motion pictures with contemporary settings, such as Ikiru (1952; To Live, 1960) and Akahige (Red Beard, 1965), but his historical films, including Shichinin o samurai (1954; The Seven Samurai, 1956), Yojimbo (1961; The Bodyguard, 1962), and Sanjuro (1962), attracted his largest following.
		Deeply rooted in the Japanese samurai code of behavior, which extols working for the good of others and the subordination of selfish desires, Kurosawa's motion pictures were thought to possess universal appeal, and European and American filmmakers openly imitated them.
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	Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢明 in Shinjitai, 23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter.
		Kurosawa was born in Omori, Ota-ku, Tokyo, the youngest of seven children.
		Another Kurosawa trademark was the use of weather elements to heighten mood: for example the heavy rain in the final battle in Seven Samurai and the fog in Throne of Blood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akira_Kurosawa (1725 words)

	Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢明) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics.
		Kurosawa was born March 23, 1910, in Omori, Tokyo the youngest of seven children.
		Despite criticism by some Japanese critics that Kurosawa was "too Western", he was deeply influenced by Japanese culture as well including the Kabuki and Noh theaters and the jidai-geki (period drama) genre of Japanese cinema.
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	TIMEasia.com \| TIME 100: Akira Kurosawa \| 8/23/99-8/30/99
		Kurosawa was born in Tokyo in 1910, the seventh child of a strict soldier-father.
		Kurosawa has set the example of a cinema with a strong national flavor that attracts the interest, and the embrace, of the outside world.
		Kurosawa looked like a commander, or a father, to them--as he is to my entire generation of Asian filmmakers.
	www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/kurosawa1.html (1214 words)

	Tribute to Akira Kurosawa
		Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo, the youngest of eight children, to Isamu and Shima Kurosawa, of the Samurai class.
		Kurosawa directed ten films during the 1940s, but it was the film Rashomon, released in 1951, that gained international attention when it won the 1951 Golden Lion Award from the Venice Film Festival.
		It is a further tribute to Akira Kurosawa that his recovery from the depths of depression that had led to his suicide attempt was to result in the achievement of a new level of success, surpassing his previous one.
	www.1worldfilms.com /Tribute%20Akira%20Kurosawa.htm (521 words)

	The Epic Images of Kurosawa
		Kurosawa is held in such high esteem by his peers and film critics alike that in Sight and Sound Magazine's top ten film survey of 250 critics and directors, an astonishing ten different films by Kurosawa were named, a testament to the amazing depth of his screen output.
		Akira Kurosawa's use of nature's elements is an intersection crossed by many of his films.
		Kurosawa's ability to combine the intimacies of character revelation with exciting action sequences is a quality that places him at the top of his profession.
	www.filmsondisc.com /features/kurosawa/epicimagesofkurosawa.htm (3773 words)

	The Late Films of Akira Kurosawa
		The plot complications that Kurosawa develops from this situation will take the ronin, a skillful swordsman who is down on his luck, into the employ of a powerful lord and on to a conclusion that the late director hoped would leave the audience "feeling cheered"—a feat that the Japanese director Takashi Koizumi achieves admirably.
		Kurosawa’s first purely Japanese film since Dodes’ka-den is a story of Shakespearean scope: in order to confuse the enemy, a disreputable thief (Nakadai) is employed as the double, or kagemusha, of a clan leader who later dies.
		Kurosawa established himself as the preeminent cinematic interpreter of Shakespeare with his recasting of Macbeth as a samurai warlord in Throne of Blood (1957).
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/00janfeb/akira.htm (876 words)

	Akira Kurosawa \| Anime.com Anime Shrines
		Akira Kurosawa isn't just the master of Japanese Cinema, he's one of the great masters of all cinema, worldwide.
		Akira Kurosawa isn't just the master of Japanese cinema, he's one of the great masters of filmmaking, worldwide.
		This is one of the better Akira Kurosawa websites that we have come across, it features articles and even a gallery of Kurosawa Japanese movie posters.
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	Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
		Akira Kurosawa's Dreams was the twenty-eigth and most personal film made by masterful director, Akira Kurosawa.
		Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some way impressions from his own life.
		Kurosawa's message here is as subtle as a brick: humanity is spoiling the world, with pollution, consumerism and ignorance.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /films/akira_kurosawas_dreams.htm (745 words)

	Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia
		Ursprünglich wollte Kurosawa Maler werden und besuchte die Kunstakademie, wechselte aber 1936 als Autor und Regieassistent zur Toho-Filmgesellschaft.
		Kurosawas Samurai-Epen beschwören aber nicht den Glanz und die Bedeutung einer elitären Kaste herauf, sondern deren Verfall, und die Schwertkämpfe finden in abgewrackten Städten oder im Schlamm armer Provinzdörfer statt.
		Kurosawa drehte aber auch mehrere zeitgenössische Problemfilme, die sich meist mit sozialer Ungerechtigkeit auseinandersetzten.
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	Salon Entertainment \| Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Kurosawa in the shadows
		Kurosawa regards them all with a paternal affection that's never condescending, even when his characters are silly or spiteful.
		This was Kurosawa's first movie in color, and the junkyard and ramshackle houses have the same storybook quality as the home of the make-believe conductor, where the rice paper screens are covered with childish drawings of trolleys.
		Kurosawa reserves his most stylized touches for the story of the beggar and his son; in the scenes when they are at their most desperate, Kurosawa replaces his location set with a brightly colored studio set covered in expressionistic drawings of the setting sun.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/tayl/1998/09/15tayl.html (1086 words)

	The Films of Akira Kurosawa - by Michael Grost
		Kurosawa emphasizes the "Westernization" of both regions: people in Tokyo are beginning to adopt Western dress, with much American music on the soundtrack, not to mention dancing and baseball, while The Idiot stresses the similarities of Hokkaido to the West.
		To be fair to Kurosawa, his original print was apparently 4 and a half hours, which does not seem to be available to anyone today; the version I've seen on video is the 166 minute one, with over an hour and a half chopped out by the studio.
		Kurosawa likes to show three people, two of whose heads are on a horizontal line, the third of whose head is in between, and which forms the vertex of a triangle.
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	Kurosawa
		Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential film makers of all time.
		Kurosawa is from Japan which could be considered a disadvantage with the likes of Godzilla and Rodan type movies.
		Kurosawa is a true auteur who has edited or closely supervised the editing of nearly all his films and collaborated of the scripts of most.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Brooks_Grigson/papers/Kurosawa.html (2015 words)

	CNN - Film world mourns loss of 'giant' Akira Kurosawa - September 7, 1998
		Kurosawa, who won three Academy Awards during a 30-film career that melded art and cinema and earned him acclaim as one of Japan's most famous cultural exports, died of a stroke on Sunday at his Tokyo home at the age of 88.
		But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits," said director Martin Scorsese, just one American auteur who was influenced by Kurosawa's lyricism, technical mastery, and blending of traditional Japanese theatrical forms with epic presentation.
		Kurosawa was also shunned by Japan's studios and often had to look elsewhere to fund his movies.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9809/07/kurosawa/index.html (878 words)

	Great Performances . Kurosawa . Essay . Akira Kurosawa: A Giant Among Filmmakers and Among Men \| PBS
		Akira Kurosawa was a giant in every respect.
		As the first Japanese film director with a name known around the world, he had a reputation as an artist and intellectual that was enormous and a stylistic influence on international filmmakers equally huge.
		Born in 1910 to a family of samurai background, Kurosawa created a body of work that reflects the legacy of his forebears.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/kurosawa/essay1.html (583 words)

	Midnight Eye Round-Up #21: Akira Kurosawa special
		Akira Kurosawa was one of the many directors, actors and assorted technicians to leave Toho during the series of labour strikes during the late 40s, though returned to the studio with Ikiru in 1952.
		Kurosawa's film was remade with Tetsuya Watari by Azuma Morisaki for Shochiku in 1973, and the basic premise was reworked to fit the post-Aum landscape of Shinji Aoyama's An Obsession in 1997.
		One of the many things that make Akira Kurosawa's film such standouts are the social groundings of their plots and situations.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/round-up_021.shtml (1274 words)

	Akira Kurosawa - Dirk Jasper Filmstarlexikon
		Akira Kurosawa gilt als einer der bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten Vertreter des japanischen Kinos.
		Akira Kurosawa wurde 1910 in Omori, einem Stadtbezirk Tokios, als jüngstes Kind von vier Brüdern und vier Schwestern geboren, sein Vater war Sportlehrer und später Schulleiter in Isamu, die Mutter Shima entstammt einer Handelsfamilie in Osaka.
		Akira Kurosawa kam 1916 in den Kindergarten in Shinagawa, Tokio, ein Jahr später erfolgte dann die Einschulung.
	www.djfl.de /entertainment/stars/a/akira_kurosawa/index.html (1833 words)

	Akira Kurosawa
		Kurosawa dared to humanize his samurai characters, showing the conflict between their honorable bushido code and the corrupt lords they were forced to serve, and often making them vulnerable to their own selfish and immoral impulses.
		Kurosawa's detractors were dismayed by his popularity abroad, unprecedented for a Japanese filmmaker, which they took as evidence that his works were debased and overly Americanized.
		For instance, I had come to recognize Kurosawa's preference for extended unbroken takes and long shots instead of using quick cuts and closeups, but I couldn't know whether that was a Kurosawa quirk or a style common to Japanese films in general.
	www.lardbiscuit.com /lard/kurosawa.html (1393 words)

	Akira Kurosawa
		Akira Kurosawa uses the camera to distance himself from his subject.
		Kurosawa uses narrative style to recount the story of a terminally ill man. The film is an anachronistic assembly of anecdotes, vignettes, and personal accounts, which, not only illustrates the timelessness of the story, but also Kanji's "rebirth" (a similar technique is used in Krzysztof Kieslowski's White).
		Through the use of suffusive colors to delineate opposing armies, Akira Kurosawa figuratively taints the serene landscape with the artificial, surreal hues of human tragedy and senseless destruction.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/kurosawa.html (1662 words)

	'Akira Kurosawa s Dreams'
		What he captures as well, with his long shots of the forest in the rain, is a sense of the mysterious enthrallments of nature, that feeling we often get when we're alone in the woods and feel that spirits are hovering nearby.
		In all of them, Kurosawa seems to have something to get off his chest, but the approach he's chosen is so distanced that any passion or conviction they might have had seems to have evaporated.
		The real problem with "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams" may be simply that the director's instinct to continue making films has outlived the inspiration needed for them to be worth the effort.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/akirakurosawasdreamspghinson_a0a999.htm (889 words)

	Jim's Reviews - Kurosawa's RAN
		Kurosawa brings an uncanny balance of psychological insight, thematic density, and visual and aural mastery to his reinvention of Lear.
		Kurosawa, as Japan's most highly respected filmmaker, also obtained rare permission to shoot at two of the country's most cherished landmarks, the ancient castles at Kumamoto and Himeji; the third castle, which was burned to the ground, was constructed of plastic and wood on the slopes of Mount Fuji.
		Kurosawa is also a master at judiciously using jump cuts, which move to a slightly later action in a scene, creating an effect of acceleration, or even slight disorientation.
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	BFI \| Features \| Akira Kurosawa \| a Biography
		Akira Kurosawa was the youngest of seven children, born in Tokyo on 23 March 1910.
		For those who discover Kurosawa, they will find a master technician and stylist, with a deep humanism and compassion for his characters and an awe of the enormity of nature.
		Kurosawa's fondness for Hollywood westerns in the John Ford tradition is seen in the epic sweep of
	www.bfi.org.uk /features/kurosawa/biography.html (611 words)

	Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (JAPAN 1990)
		Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is comprised of eight short films, each featuring a character named "I," who we are to assume is Kurosawa himself.
		One tale, "Crows," expresses Kurosawa's love for the artist Vincent Van Gogh, and is the most questionable of the eight tales.
		Dreams is Kurosawa's most personal work, and when it's over the viewer might feel like they've just met the man who delivered this work of art, much like "I" was somehow able to meet Van Gogh in one of his paintings.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/akira_kurosawa_dreams.htm (453 words)

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		His canon is neither esoteric nor arcane, simply a collection of works that explores universal themes: man's labour for fulfillment; the necessity for humane action in the tornado of an oppressive world; that world's propensity to disguise the truth beneath a veneer of deception.
		All Kurosawa's movies showcase the director's dazzling technical artistry, but it is those that spin round the vortex of action which benefit most.
		Akira Kurosawa was a giant among Japanese filmmakers, both literally and metaphorically.
	www.nyfa.com /film/news_events/20great/06kurosawa.htm (524 words)

	Amazon.com: Kurosawa: Sam Shepard, Akira Kurosawa, Paul Scofield, Tadao Sato, Hisao Kurosawa, Shuichi Kato, Isuzu ...
		Akira Kurosawa directed my favorite film, "Shichinin no samurai." When I was teaching Honors World Literature I would show the film to my students in between their reading of Homer's "Iliad" and Cervantes's "Don Quixote" as part of a trilogy on the nature of heroism.
		Kurosawa was a film maker with a definitive focus, seeking no less than to change the world for the better using films as his medium.
		Clips of Kurosawa at work on his films are enjoyable, as is the reunion of the "Roshomon" workers and the interviews with a few former Kurosawa-film beauties.
	www.amazon.com /Kurosawa-Sam-Shepard/dp/B00005YUQ2 (1207 words)

	MySpace.com - Akira Kurosawa - 98 - Male - Tokyo, Tokyo - www.myspace.com/akira_kurosawa
		Director Akira Kurosawa’s uncompromising expose of Japanese white collar crime is a startingly bleak saga of Toshiro Mifune infiltrating the family of a corrupt, big businessman (Masayuki Mori) who had his father, one of his underlings, murdered.
		Kurosawa is using the 19th-century Tokugawa-era setting in ways that draw specifically on Japanese historical experience, and he is constructing a symbolic fantasy in which the historical loser -- the samurai -- prevails against the historical winner -- the merchants, who embody a nascent capitalism and are the ancestors of Japan's 20th-century economic miracle.
		Kurosawa said that all of the technological progress of the 20th century had only taught people how to kill each other more efficiently, and in this film he shows that forces of violence and destruction, once unleashed, destroy all in their path.
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