Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director who is considered to be one of the most influential and important film directors in cinema history. After the smash success of his 1951 film, Rashomon, which caught the attention of Western viewers, he directed such films as Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Kagemusha, and Ran.
Kurosawa was born in Tokyo to a wealthy samurai family, the youngest child in the family, and took an early interest in film as well as traditional Japanese swordplay....
