Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
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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.
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 196…
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I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane!
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home.
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