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unusual facts about Kurosawa



Anaheim University

The University is made up of three graduate schools: the Graduate School of Education, the Akio Morita School of Business (named after Sony founder Akio Morita), and the Akira Kurosawa School of Film (named after Akira Kurosawa).

Anthony Lovett

Influenced by Russ Meyer, David Lynch, John Waters, Fellini, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Lovett's own cinematic style fluctuated between surreal, sophomoric, and salacious.

AV Open

3rd Place: Moodyz - Dream School 11 (ドリーム学園11) with Nayuka Mine, ICHIKA, Chihiro Hara, Erina Kurosawa, Akira Shiratori, Rico, Nami Kimura, Natsuki Ijima & Miina Minamoto

Daisuke Katō

His son, Haruyuki Katō, married Kazuko Kurosawa, the costume designer and daughter of Akira Kurosawa.

Fumio Hayasaka

This film shared the 1954 Silver Lion prize from the Venice Film Festival with Kazan’s On the Waterfront, Fellini’s La Strada, and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.

Printed in Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa, edited by James Goodwin, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994 James Goodwin.

Garrick Hagon

As a voice actor he has been heard in many films and TV series including the UK dub of Star Fleet/X-Bomber (as Capt. Carter), the Manga titles, The Secret of Mamo and Goodbye Lady Liberty and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran.

Japanese martial arts

Kano devised a powerful system of new techniques and training methods, which famously culminated on June 11, 1886, in a tournament that would later be dramatized by celebrated Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明 Kurosawa Akira, 1910–1998), in the film "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943).

Kandagawa Pervert Wars

This film became Kandagawa Pervert Wars with its references to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, inventive directorial devices, playful mannerisms and in-joke allusions to Kurosawa's favorite western films.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

In the early 1990s, Kurosawa won a scholarship to the Sundance Institute and was able to study filmmaking in the United States, although he had been directing for nearly ten years professionally.

Kyōko Kagawa

She played the love interest of Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa's favorite leading man, several times.

Motoyoshi Oda

Probably his most distinguished credits are Lady From Hell (1949, based on a Kurosawa script), Tomei Ningen a 1954 Japanese horror classic inspired by The Invisible Man, a follow-up to his earlier 1954 film Ghost Man.

Ni-Oh

Hisao Kurosawa was completing his father's script with assistance from game producer Kou Shibusawa of Koei, with a combined production budget of ¥ 3 billion for both film and game.

Not Yet

Madadayo (English:Not Yet), a 1993 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

Redbeard

Red Beard, a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa

Seven Samurai 20XX

Rights for the production of the game were given by the Kurosawa production, with character designs by French artist Mœbius and the composition of the music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Takashi Shimura

Outside of his career working with Kurosawa, Shimura is probably best known for his roles in several Japanese monster films, including the scientist Kyohei Yamane in the first two Godzilla films (and the first to reprise the role before Raymond Burr in the English form of Godzilla and Megumi Odaka in the Heisei Godzilla films).

The Glass Key

The book was also the inspiration for the satirical samurai film Yojimbo produced by Kurosawa wherein a warrior for hire offers services to two rival merchants, each seeking to control a gambling operation, then goes on to pit the two gangs of killers against each other, a la the Continental Op.

Tran Anh Hung

Trần is strongly influenced by French cinema and from some European and Japanese filmmakers, namely Bergman, Bresson, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky and Ozu.

Tsutomu Yamazaki

He worked with Kurosawa twice more: in the director's next film, 1965's Red Beard, then fifteen years later, in Kagemusha.

Yōko Yaguchi

She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko.

Yu-shan Huang

And she belonged to a circle that organized private screenings of films such as Kurosawa’s Red Beard, then forbidden by the censors of the Guomindang dictatorship.


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