# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akira-kurosawa
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:50:31.498Z

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description: "He made samurai films that rewrote what cinema could do — then watched Hollywood steal the grammar and sell it back. Thirty features across sixty years, each one a lesson in how to frame a rainstorm or cut a sword fight so it lands like truth."
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birthDate: "1910-03-23"
deathDate: "1998-09-06"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Kurosawa started as a painter before entering the Japanese film industry in 1936, spending years as an assistant director and screenwriter until his debut with Sanshiro Sugata in 1943, released when he was 33. After the war, Drunken Angel (1948) established him as a major young voice and introduced his collaboration with an unknown actor named Toshiro Mifune — they'd make 15 more films together. Rashomon took the Golden Lion at Venice in 1951 and cracked open Western markets for Japanese cinema for the first time, setting off a wave of international recognition. Through the 1950s and early 1960s he directed roughly a film a year — Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, High and Low, Red Beard — each one studied, adapted, and lifted by filmmakers worldwide. His output slowed after the mid-1960s, but Kagemusha and Ran proved the edge hadn't dulled. He accepted an honorary Oscar in 1990 and died in 1998, posthumously named "Asian of the Century" in arts and culture — one of five people credited with shaping Asia across a hundred years.