Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director, screen writer, producer, and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. He was born on 23rd march of 1910. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scripwriter, he made his debut as a a director in 1943,during World War II with the popular Judo action film Sugata Sanshiro.
After the war, the critically acclaimed Yoidore Tenshi (1948) in which he cast the then known actor Tashiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men went on to collaborate on another 15 masterpieces. Rashomon, which also starred Mifune, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America. The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. In 1990, he received the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. After his death on 6th September 1998, he was named Asian of the century in the Arts,Literature and Cultural category by Asian Week Magazine. Also CNN ranked him as one of the five people who contributed the most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years.
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