In 1930 Kurosawa replied to an ad that expressed a film studio’s need for assistant film directors. He applied and was granted the job and began assisting Kajiro Yamamoto. It was only a matter of time when he would start moving up in the film industry and hit it big. Kurosawa’s exceptional talent for film granted him m

Following Red Beard (Akahige) in 1965 he entered a frustrating period of abandoned projects and was stuck in a period of idleness. When in 1970 his first film in five years (Dodeska-den) failed at the box office, he attempted suicide. Directing a Soviet-Japanese production, Dersu Uzala helped him recover and took four years to make. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1975 and a gold medal at the Moscow Film Festival.

It was in World War II when his first films were produced, however these films did not express Kurosawa’s true nature because he had to comply with Japanese government propaganda policy. It was Drunken Angel which was Kurosawa's first personally expressive work, made in 1948 and featuring Toshiro Mifune who became Kurosawa's favorite leading actor. Kurosawa also noted in this film that, quote, "In this picture I finally discovered myself".

For those who discover Kurosawa, they will find a master technician and artist, with a deep compassion for his characters and an awe of the vastness of nature. He also made Japanese cinema known in the western world with his film Rashomon, which won the top prize in the Venice Film Festival of 1951, and also a special Oscar for best foreign film. A golden era followed, with the west captivated by his work. Seven Samurai was remade in the US under its dubbed title The Ma

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