Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a japanese director, screenwriter, editor and producer, known for Fistful of Dollars, A (1964) (1964), Living (2022) and The Magnificent Seven Remake (2016). He died September 6, 1998. He became 88 years old.
Best according to IMDb ratings
Here are the top-rated movies and series featuring Akira Kurosawa, based on user ratings on IMDb.
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| 1 | Heaven and Hell (1963) | 8.4 |
Akira Kurosawa
- Name: Akira Kurosawa
- Age: 88 years
- Birth Date: March 23, 1910
- Death Date: September 6, 1998
- Nationality: Japanese
Akira Kurosawa's filmography
Director
Akira is listed as director for twenty seven titles.
Not Yet
Movie, 1993
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Hisashi Igawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuo Matsumura, George Tokoro
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Another Summer
Movie, 1991
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Sachiko Murase, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mieko Suzuki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Revolt
Movie, 1985
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Akira Terao
- Music: Toru Takemitsu
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
Movie, 1980
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Dersu Uzala
Movie, 1975
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Mikhail Bychkov, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin
- Music: Isaak Shvarts
Dodesukaden
Movie, 1970
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Shinsuke Minami, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Yoshitaka Zushi
- Music: Toru Takemitsu
Akahige
Movie, 1965
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Reiko Dan, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Masaru Satō
Heaven and Hell
Movie, 1963
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Franz Schubert, Masaru Satō
Sanjuro
Movie, 1962
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Keiju Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Bodyguard
Movie, 1961
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Rose in the Mud
Movie, 1960
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Hidden Fortress
Movie, 1958
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara
- Music: Masaru Satō
Throne of Blood
Movie, 1957
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Akira Kubo, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
I Live in Fear
Movie, 1955
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Masao Shimizu
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Magnificent Seven
Movie, 1954
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
To Live
Movie, 1952
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Bokuzen Hidari, Nobuo Kaneko, Haruo Tanaka
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Rashomon
Movie, 1950
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Stray Dog
Movie, 1949
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
The Silent Duel
Movie, 1949
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura
- Music: Akira Ifukube
Drunken Angel
Movie, 1948
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Michiyo Kogure, Reizaburô Yamamoto
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
One Wonderful Sunday
Movie, 1947
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Chieko Nakakita, Zeko Nakamura, Isao Numasaki
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
Asu o tsukuru hitobito
Movie, 1946
- Director: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirō Yamamoto
- Main cast: Itoko Kôno, Chieko Nakakita, Mitsue Tachibana
- Music: Noboru Itô
No Regrets for Lost Youth
Movie, 1946
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Setsuko Hara, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Haruko Sugimura
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa)
Movie, 1945
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Kenichi Enomoto, Susumu Fujita, Masayuki Mori, Denjirō Ōkōchi
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
Judo Saga II
Movie, 1945
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Akitake Kôno, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
Most Beautifully
Movie, 1944
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Takako Irie, Ichirō Sugai
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
Judo Saga
Movie, 1943
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
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Screenwriter
Akira is listed as screenwriter for fifty titles.
Living
Movie, 2022
- Main cast: Bill Nighy, Tom Burke, Alex Sharp
- Music: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
The Magnificent Seven Remake
Movie, 2016
- Director: Antoine Fuqua
- Main cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington
- Music: James Horner, Simon Franglen
The Sea Is Watching
Movie, 2002
- Director: Kei Kumai
- Main cast: Eiji Okuda, Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tôno, Hidetaka Yoshioka
- Music: Teizô Matsumura
Alley Cat
Movie, 2000
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Main cast: Yuko Asano, Bunta Sugawara, Ryûdô Uzaki, Kōji Yakusho
Not Yet
Movie, 1993
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Hisashi Igawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuo Matsumura, George Tokoro
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Another Summer
Movie, 1991
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Sachiko Murase, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mieko Suzuki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Revolt
Movie, 1985
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Akira Terao
- Music: Toru Takemitsu
Runaway Train
Movie, 1985
- Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
- Main cast: Rebecca De Mornay, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Kyle T. Heffner
- Music: Trevor Jones
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
Movie, 1980
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Dersu Uzala
Movie, 1975
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Mikhail Bychkov, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin
- Music: Isaak Shvarts
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie, 1970
- Director: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
- Main cast: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, Sō Yamamura
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Dodesukaden
Movie, 1970
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Shinsuke Minami, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Yoshitaka Zushi
- Music: Toru Takemitsu
Akahige
Movie, 1965
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Reiko Dan, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Masaru Satō
Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)
Movie, 1964
- Director: Sergio Leone
- Main cast: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
- Music: Ennio Morricone
Heaven and Hell
Movie, 1963
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Franz Schubert, Masaru Satō
Sanjuro
Movie, 1962
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Keiju Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Bodyguard
Movie, 1961
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Magnificent Seven
Movie, 1960
- Director: John Sturges
- Main cast: Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner
- Music: Elmer Bernstein
The Rose in the Mud
Movie, 1960
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Vagabonds
Movie, 1959
- Director: Toshio Sugie
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa, Koji Tsuruta, Misa Uehara
- Music: Ikuma Dan
The Hidden Fortress
Movie, 1958
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara
- Music: Masaru Satō
Throne of Blood
Movie, 1957
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Akira Kubo, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
Three Hundred Miles Through Enemy Lines
Movie, 1957
- Director: Kazuo Mori
- Main cast: Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Yoshirô Kitahara, Kenji Sugawara, Hideo Takamatsu
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
Hiba Arborvitae Story
Movie, 1955
- Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
- Main cast: Isao Kimura, Akira Kubo, Yoshiko Kuga, Mariko Okada
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
The Lost Garrison
Movie, 1955
- Director: Akira Mimura
- Main cast: Ryutaro Tatsumi
- Music: Seitaro Omori
The Magnificent Seven
Movie, 1954
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Fukeyo haru kaze
Movie, 1953
- Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Sō Yamamura, Hisako Yamane
- Music: Yasushi Akutagawa
Araki Mataemon: Kettô kagiya no tsuji
Movie, 1952
- Director: Kazuo Mori
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yuriko Hamada, Akihiko Katayama
To Live
Movie, 1952
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Bokuzen Hidari, Nobuo Kaneko, Haruo Tanaka
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Sword for Hire
Movie, 1952
- Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Yoshiko Yamaguchi
- Music: Ikuma Dan
Ai to nikushimi no kanata e
Movie, 1951
- Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Ryō Ikebe, Mitsuko Mito
- Music: Akira Ifukube
Kedamono no yado
Movie, 1951
- Main cast: Keiko Kishi, Toshiko Kobayashi, Koji Tsuruta
Rashomon
Movie, 1950
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Desertion at Dawn
Movie, 1950
- Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
- Main cast: Ryō Ikebe, Eitarō Ozawa, Yoshiko Yamaguchi
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Jiruba Tetsu
Movie, 1950
- Director: Isamu Kosugi
- Main cast: Yuriko Hamada, Utaemon Ichikawa, Eitarō Shindō
Jakoman to Tetsu
Movie, 1949
- Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yuriko Hamada, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
- Music: Akira Ifukube
Stray Dog
Movie, 1949
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
The Silent Duel
Movie, 1949
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura
- Music: Akira Ifukube
Jigoku no kifujin
Movie, 1949
- Director: Motoyoshi Oda
- Main cast: Michiyo Kogure, Eitarō Ozawa, Ichirō Ryūzaki
Drunken Angel
Movie, 1948
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Michiyo Kogure, Reizaburô Yamamoto
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
One Wonderful Sunday
Movie, 1947
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Chieko Nakakita, Zeko Nakamura, Isao Numasaki
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
Four Love Stories
Movie, 1947
- Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa, Mikio Naruse, Shirō Toyoda, Kenta Yamazaki
- Main cast: Ryō Ikebe, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga
No Regrets for Lost Youth
Movie, 1946
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Setsuko Hara, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Haruko Sugimura
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa)
Movie, 1945
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Kenichi Enomoto, Susumu Fujita, Masayuki Mori, Denjirō Ōkōchi
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
Judo Saga II
Movie, 1945
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Akitake Kôno, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
Appare Isshin Tasuke
Movie, 1945
- Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
- Main cast: Kenichi Enomoto, Akira Kishii, Yukiko Todoroki, Musei Tokugawa
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
Most Beautifully
Movie, 1944
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Takako Irie, Ichirō Sugai
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
Judo Saga
Movie, 1943
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
A Story of Tomi
Movie, 1943
- Director: Nobuo Aoyagi
- Main cast: Hideko Takamine
Winged Victory
Movie, 1942
- Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
- Main cast: Heihachirô Ôkawa, Ichirō Tsukida
- Music: Ryôichi Hattori
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Editor
Akira is listed as editor for seventeen titles.
Not Yet
Movie, 1993
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Hisashi Igawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuo Matsumura, George Tokoro
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Another Summer
Movie, 1991
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Sachiko Murase, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mieko Suzuki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Revolt
Movie, 1985
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Akira Terao
- Music: Toru Takemitsu
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
Movie, 1980
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Akahige
Movie, 1965
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Reiko Dan, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Masaru Satō
Heaven and Hell
Movie, 1963
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Franz Schubert, Masaru Satō
Sanjuro
Movie, 1962
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Keiju Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Bodyguard
Movie, 1961
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Rose in the Mud
Movie, 1960
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Hidden Fortress
Movie, 1958
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara
- Music: Masaru Satō
Throne of Blood
Movie, 1957
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Akira Kubo, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
Hiba Arborvitae Story
Movie, 1955
- Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
- Main cast: Isao Kimura, Akira Kubo, Yoshiko Kuga, Mariko Okada
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
The Magnificent Seven
Movie, 1954
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
To Live
Movie, 1952
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Bokuzen Hidari, Nobuo Kaneko, Haruo Tanaka
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
Rashomon
Movie, 1950
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Fumio Hayasaka
No Regrets for Lost Youth
Movie, 1946
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Setsuko Hara, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Haruko Sugimura
- Music: Tadashi Hattori
Judo Saga
Movie, 1943
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Susumu Fujita, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
- Music: Seiichi Suzuki
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Producer
Akira is listed as producer for eight titles.
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
Movie, 1980
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Music: Shinichirô Ikebe
Dodesukaden
Movie, 1970
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Shinsuke Minami, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Yoshitaka Zushi
- Music: Toru Takemitsu
Heaven and Hell
Movie, 1963
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai
- Music: Franz Schubert, Masaru Satō
The Bodyguard
Movie, 1961
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Rose in the Mud
Movie, 1960
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Masayuki Mori
- Music: Masaru Satō
The Hidden Fortress
Movie, 1958
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara
- Music: Masaru Satō
Throne of Blood
Movie, 1957
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Main cast: Toshirô Mifune, Akira Kubo, Isuzu Yamada
- Music: Masaru Satō
Haru no tawamure
Movie, 1949
- Director: Kajirō Yamamoto
- Main cast: Hideko Takamine, Jūkichi Uno, Yōnosuke Toba
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