Category:Akira Kurosawa

Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga).

After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1952 Venice Film Festival.

The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded (and often adapted) films, such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961).

After the 1960s he became much less prolific; even so, his later work—including his final two epics, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to win awards, though more often abroad than in Japan.

In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Year	Title	Japanese	Romanization
1943	Sanshiro Sugata (Judo Saga)	姿三四郎}}	Sugata Sanshirō
1944	The Most Beautiful	一番美しく}}	Ichiban utsukushiku
1945	Sanshiro Sugata Part II (Judo Saga 2)	續姿三四郎}}	Zoku Sugata Sanshirō
1945	The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail	虎の尾を踏む男達}}	Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi
1946	No Regrets for Our Youth	わが青春に悔なし}}	Waga seishun ni kuinashi
1947	One Wonderful Sunday	素晴らしき日曜日}}	Subarashiki nichiyōbi
1948	Drunken Angel	酔いどれ天使}}	Yoidore tenshi
1949	The Quiet Duel	静かなる決闘}}	Shizukanaru kettō
1949	Stray Dog	野良犬}}	Nora inu
1950	Scandal	醜聞}}	Sukyandaru (Shūbun)
1950	Rashomon	羅生門}}	Rashōmon
1951	The Idiot	白痴}}	Hakuchi
1952	Ikiru (To Live)	生きる}}	Ikiru
1954	Seven Samurai	七人の侍}}	Shichinin no samurai
1955	I Live in Fear (Record of a Living Being)	生きものの記録}}	Ikimono no kiroku
1957	Throne of Blood (Spider Web Castle)	蜘蛛巣城}}	Kumonosu-jō
1957	The Lower Depths	どん底}}	Donzoko
1958	The Hidden Fortress	隠し砦の三悪人}}	Kakushi toride no san akunin
1960	The Bad Sleep Well	悪い奴ほどよく眠る}}	Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
1961	Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)	用心棒}}	Yōjinbō
1962	Sanjurō	椿三十郎}}	Tsubaki Sanjūrō
1963	High and Low (Heaven and Hell)	天国と地獄}}	Tengoku to jigoku
1965	Red Beard	赤ひげ}}	Akahige
1970	Dodesukaden	どですかでん}}	Dodesukaden
1975	Dersu Uzala	デルス・ウザーラ}}	Derusu Uzāra
1980	Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)	影武者}}	Kagemusha
1985	Ran	乱}}	Ran
1990	Dreams (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)	夢}}	Yume
1991	Rhapsody in August	八月の狂詩曲}}	Hachigatsu no rapusodī (Hachigatsu no kyōshikyoku)
1993	Madadayo (Not Yet)	まあだだよ}}	Mādadayo