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Kurosawa Production Co., established in 1959, continues to oversee many of the aspects of Kurosawa's legacy. The director's son, Hisao Kurosawa, is the current head of the company. Its American subsidiary, Kurosawa Enterprises, is located in Los Angeles.
The legacy of filmmaking technique left by Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) for subsequent generations of filmmakers has been diverse and of international influence beyond his native Japan. The legacy of influence has ranged from working methods, influence on style, and selection and adaptation of themes in cinema.
- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) Inspired by several real-life incidents, No Regrets for Our Youth is an intelligent and balanced drama about wavering ideologies and personal allegiances set between 1933-46, the years of imperial Japan’s increasing militarisation through to its wartime defeat.
- Scandal (1950) The first of 2 films Kurosawa made for the Shochiku studio (alongside the Dostoevsky adaptation The Idiot in 1951), this punchy social drama takes a righteous swipe at the gutter press, as Toshiro Mifune’s up-and-coming painter is snapped by the paparazzi while sitting on a hotel balcony with a famous singer (played by Yoshiko Yamaguchi), the photo inspiring a fabricated story in a popular gossip magazine.
- Rashomon (1950) The film that launched Kurosawa’s name outside his homeland (and those of its stars Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo), Rashomon’s Golden Lion Award at Venice in 1951 awakened a postwar generation of international festival and arthouse audiences to the manifold pleasures of Japanese cinema.
- Ikiru (1952) The story of an undistinguished, time-serving civil servant who, upon learning he has stomach cancer, channels his energies into one final positive act, building a children’s playground in a disease-ridden slum quarter, is truly heart-rending stuff.
The Kurosawa Film Studio consists of three studios that were founded by the movie director Akira Kurosawa and are located in Japan. The Yokohama Studio is located in Midori ward of Yokohama city in the Kirigaoka suburb. It was completed on November 1, 1983.
Feb 13, 2015 · Nogami was also an important part of Kurosawa’s production company Kurosawa Production. In the 1970s during Kurosawa’s largely inactive period, Nogami worked in advertising in the Japanese company Sun Ad.
Feb 8, 2023 · From Rashomon (1950) to Yojimbo (1961), Akira Kurosawa’s run of critically acclaimed postwar films made him an international phenomenon, but a subsequent attempt to break into Hollywood in the late 1960s proved disastrous.
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Akira Kurosawa. Writer: The Hidden Fortress. After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943).
