Akira Kurosawa Biography

Akira Kurosawa is a world-renowned film director born in Tokyo. He was the first Japanese film director. During the second world war, Kurosawa started his career. Even though he began as an assistant director, he became a film director and won International acclaim for various films. He directed motivational films as well as other films. Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, Kagemusha, Ran, etc., are the Akira Kurosawa movies. He directed around 30 films. 

Besides directing a feeling, Akira Kurosawa also worked as a screenwriter, producer, editor, etc. He came to the film industry at the age of 26 years. As Kurosawa achieved success very soon, he also had difficulties at a point in time. Unfortunately, he worked only for 57 years and died in the year 1998. The young generations can learn many things by observing the Akira Kurosawa profile. 

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Childhood

The famous filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910, in Tokyo. Isamu and Shima were his parents. Akira's father is a member of the samurai family. His mother is from a merchant family. Akira Kurosawa is the 8th child of this couple. The two elder siblings were already grown up, and the third one was deceased. Akira's father was somehow brought minded and promoted Western culture. He used to make his children fit and encourage them to do physical exercises daily. Besides these things, he also takes the kids to a theatre, watching movies. At the age of six, Akira Kurosawa watched his first movie in the theatre.

With the influence of Mr. Tachikawa, Akira's elementary school teacher got interested in education and learned calligraphy, Kendo swordsmanship. Heigo Kurosawa, the older brother of Akira, was another influencer in his early life. When Akira was 13, his brother took him to show the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. There he directed the fears of faces and taught him to react to that and comment on the fact. All these help him to improve his artistic skills and to direct different scenes in a film.

Climbing Career Ladder

With that interest in arts, he joined the Doshisha School of Western Painting after high school completion. There Akira performed well and participated in several competitions. Among those competitions, in 1936, he had applied to work at the photochemical laboratories film studio. Kajirō Yamamoto had observed that creative application accidentally. Then he asked the other crew to hire Akira and provided a post of assistant director.

Then Akira Kurosawa profile as a cinematic prodigy started when he began working as an assistant director for seven years. During this span, they released 24 films. While assisting in direction, he also learned scriptwriting. He developed step by step and achieved his Target during the time of the second world war. Then he became a director and made his first film, Sanshiro Sugata. With the help of this martial arts picture in 1943, Akira had exhibited his talent as a writer cum director.

Ichiban utsukushiku is the next film directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1944 based on the instances of world war ii. In 1945, he married the star of this movie. In this way, Akira Kurosawa climbed his career ladder successfully.

Remarkable Movies of Akira 

It is an undeniable fact that Akira Kurosawa movies are a gem. In a brief span, Akira Kurosawa had reached many heights and directed several influential movies. Let's see a few of them as follows - 

• Sanshiro Sugata in 1943.

• Ichiban utsukushiku in 1944,

• No Regrets for Our Youth in 1946. 

• Drunken Angel, in 1948.

• Rashomon in 1950 was the first international movie of Akira Kurosawa. The Venice Film Festival’s top prize and the Academy Award for the best foreign film were won by this film.

• Ikiru in 1952

• Seven Samurai in 1954

• Throne of Blood in 1957

• Hidden Fortress, in 1958

• The Magnificent Seven in1960

• The Outrage in 1964.

These are a few hits of Akira Kurosawa, the first Japanese film director. 

Cause of Death

Akira Kurosawa had several hits. After 1966, several unfortunate things came to the life of Akira Kurosawa. He had to taste the better times in his life. Several movies got commercial failures, and he needs to pay lump sum losses. Especially Tora! Tora! Tora! The film showed him the other side of a coin. 

Later, Akira worked for a Russian film production company, worked for television, etc. He wrote several skips for international movies. With the help of a Russian production company, Akira Kurosawa made Dersu Uzala an adventurous epic. During this production, Akira's health had taken a toll. In simple words, Akira Kurosawa's cause of death is his cardiac stroke. Even though his movies were successful, unfortunately, the film industry had lost the most precious director, Akira Kurosawa, on September 6, 1998. 

At the age of 80s, he also worked from the wheelchair itself. Akira directed and provided guidelines to the other group members for a perfect outcome of the feeling. With a tribute to Akira, our Indian directors had released Akira Kurosawa biography Bollywood movie, Tare Zameen par. This movie also got several awards and rewards. 

Akira Kurosawa is one of the gems of the film industry. He gave a new way to direct films with different themes for the next generations. We can also learn from his biography that putting an all-out effort is only our task; we should not expect the outcome. Work hard with heart and soul to lead success.