Akira Kurosawa

Nationality:
Japanese
Birthdate:
03/23/1910
Birthplace:
Omori, Tokyo
Death Date:
09/06/1998
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Akira Kurosawa is unquestionably the best known Japanese filmmaker in the West. This can perhaps be best explained by the fact that he is not so much a Japanese or a Western filmmaker, but that he is a "modern" filmmaker. Like postwar Japan itself, he combines the ancient traditions with a distinctly modern, Western twist.

Kurosawa got his start in films following an education which included study of Western painting, literature and political philosophy. His early films were made under the stringent auspices of the militaristic government then in power and busily engaged in waging the Pacific Continued

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1928 
Painting accepted by Nitten exhibition
1929 
Joined Japan's Proletarian Artists' League in order to study new art movements
1932 
Left Artists' League
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Answered newspaper ad and was hired by Photo Chemical Laboratory (later Toho Motion Picture Company) as assistant director, worked with mentor Kajiro Yamamoto
1936 
Worked way up with Yamamoto's crew from third assistant to chief assistant and B-group second unit director at PCL; also learned editing and dubbing techniques
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