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Akira Kurosawa

Filmmaker

Japanese·b. 1910

Known for: Seven Samurai (1954), Rashomon (1950)

Akira Kurosawa directed 30 films across five decades, drawing on Japanese literary tradition and Western genre cinema to produce work — Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), Ran (1985) — that has been adapted, sampled, and studied by filmmakers worldwide. His command of widescreen composition, weather, and crowd movement remains a reference for action filmmaking. George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg all cited him as a primary influence.

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