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Akira Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, making his directorial debut in 1943. After working in a wide range of genres, he made his breakthrough film Rashômon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Shichinin no samurai (1954) (Seven Samurai) and the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Kumonosu-jô (1957) (Throne of Blood), the later two showcasing the magnetic personality of Toshirô Mifune, who also starred in the two samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made the Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai epic Kagemusha (1980), which was in many ways a dry run for Ran (1985), his second Shakespeare adaptation. He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku (1991) and Madadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Shichinin no samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as Per un pugno di dollari (1964) and Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958), as Star Wars (1977).

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[freakyold]

Wow! - Great montage!! You did some great editing and captured the essence of Kurosawa's visual magnificence. And what could be cooler than watching Toshiro Mifune grinning, grimacing, slicing and dicing to the sound of Rage? This is definitely going in my favorites!

[khayum]

@freakyold Thank you :)

[VocaloidAnime1924]

Toshiro Mifune!!! I love this video!! <3 He is so awesome!!

[ny2neyme]

Toshiro Mifune tearing shit up to RATM is beyond epic, it's LEGENDARY!

[Hatemachine025]

Well done my friend VERY well done, saw a movie or two in there I have yet to see, very much looking forward to seeing thme, again thanks.

[freakyold]

@khayum You're welcome.

[seanMmaguire1]

was Kurosawa the one who commited Suicide on live TV?

[ilovetorachan]

Kurosawa was so called " Emperor Kurosawa" because his perfectionism not only to himself and actors but to the propes,needless to say to the sceneshifters.For example,the unfilmed things in a drawer have to be filled with suitable somethings,such as medicinal herb. Finally he won everyone's respect as a greatest Movie Director.

[Digatone]

I watch Hidden Fortress on TCM-Turner Classic Movies and I have seen Ran on Sundance Channel

[ballsonyachin420]

Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa two legendary people of a time now passed.. without them we would never have had many n much of our American style Westerns for they were the inspiration of many.