" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran.

Among the films shown in its founding year were Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

The latter type of works include Akira Kurosawa's film Kagemusha, which portrays Nobunaga as energetic, athletic and respectful towards his enemies.

" Pauline Kael, he notes, was willing to acknowledge this critical ennui and thus appreciate how a film such as Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo ( 1961 ) " could exploit Western conventions while debunking its morality.

It is acknowledged that the story of Fistful of Dollars closely resembles Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

* In Akira Kurosawa's film Dodesukaden a mentally ill boy pretends to be a tram conductor.

It is a western-style remake based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai.

The Magnificent Seven a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

* January 15 – Release, in Japan, of the film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth.

His film A Fistful of Dollars ( Per un Pugno di Dollari, 1964 ) was based upon Akira Kurosawa's Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

George Lucas's creation of R2-D2 was influenced by Akira Kurosawa's 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress ( USA release 1962 ), particularly Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe.

This description can be used to describe any number of Westerns, but also other films such as Die Hard, Top Gun, and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai which are frequently cited examples of films that do not take place in the American West but have many themes and characteristics common to Westerns.

Multiple scenes attempted in Major Dundee, including slow motion action sequences ( inspired by Akira Kurosawa's work in Seven Samurai ), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would be perfected in The Wild Bunch.

It also bears some parallels with the American Westerns ; Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, for example, was remade in a Western setting as The Magnificent Seven.

The 1964 remake of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage was a failure, as was The Outrage ( 1964 ), director Martin Ritt's remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, despite the presence of Paul Newman.

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai featured prominently six rōnin.

Commonly this motif is presented as different points of view revolving around a central ( but sometimes unknowable ) " truth ", the seminal example being Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.

The castle has been featured extensively in foreign and Japanese films, including the James Bond movie " You Only Live Twice " ( 1967 ), and Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 ).

Usagi Yojimbo is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema and has included references to the work of Akira Kurosawa ( the title of the series is derived from Kurosawa's 1960 film Yojimbo ) and to icons of popular Japanese cinema such as Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, and Godzilla.

Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon ( 1950 ), takes only its name and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion of the moral ambiguity of thieving to survive, from this story.

( film ), 1985 film directed by Chris Marker about the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran ( 1985 )

Of the older generation of directors, Akira Kurosawa directed Kagemusha ( 1980 ), which won the Palme d ' Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, and Ran ( 1985 ).

Also, at this time, he was busy assisting his friend Akira Kurosawa with films he was directing, such as Kagemusha and Ran.

* The conclusion of the events of the film Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa takes place in this year.

In the late 1970s, Akira Kurosawa directed a famous series of commercials featuring American celebrities on the set of his film Kagemusha.

The Battle of Nagashino and the last years of the Takeda clan are dramatised in Akira Kurosawa's 1980 film Kagemusha ( Shadow Warrior ).

* Kagemusha ( 1980 ) ( directed by Akira Kurosawa )

Dave has many similarities with the novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, and the movie Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa.

The Takeda style has been featured in classic samurai films such as Akira Kurosawa's " Seven Samurai " ( 1954 ) and " Kagemusha " ( 1980 ).

When director Akira Kurosawa cast him for the lead role in Kagemusha ( 1980 ), Katsu left before the first day of shooting was over.

As an actress, she has worked with directors including Akira Kurosawa ( Kagemusha, 1980 ), Tatsumi Kumashiro ( Seishun no Satetsu, 1974 ), Yoji Yamada ( The Yellow Handkerchief, 1977 and Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, 1979 ), Shohei Imamura ( Why Not ?, 1981 ), Shunji Iwai ( Swallowtail Butterfly, 1996 ), Jun Ichikawa ( Tokyo Yakyoku, 1997 ), Mitani Koki ( Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald, 1997 ), Yoshimitsu Morita ( Like Asura, 2003 ) and Takashi Miike ( IZO, Sukiyaki Western Django ).

* 1980: Kagemusha – d. Akira Kurosawa

Richie wrote the English subtitles for Akira Kurosawa's films Kagemusha ( 1980 ), Red Beard, and Dreams ( 1990 ).

* In the Japanese film Kagemusha released 1980 from director Akira Kurosawa, the noble warlord Takeda Shingen, who lived from 1521 to 1573, is occasionally impersonated by his brother Nobukado.

In the movie Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa, Lord Shingen is buried in the lake.

* Kagemusha ( Shadow Warrior ), a film directed by Akira Kurosawa

* 1980 – Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer

In 1980, Hussey married Japanese musician Akira Fuse, and had one son, Max ( born 1983 ).

Next he appeared as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ), a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), both films being adaptations of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese samurai epic, Seven Samurai

is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1980 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi.

The band was started by guitarist Akira Takasaki, bassist Hiroyuki Tanaka and drummer Munetaka Higuchi, coming off the split-up of the pop-rock band Lazy in February 1980.

is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa.

Akira Watase was born July 2, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan .).

She appeared in the seventh episode of Nikkatsu's Koichiro Uno series, director Akira Katō's Koichiro Uno's Moist And Steamy ( 1979 ), and the following year she worked under director Noboru Tanaka again for his Nami ( 1980 ), the third entry in Nikkatsu's ground-breaking Angel Guts series.

In 1980, Takashi was replaced by Akira Jimbo.

* Akira Endo ( 1980 – 1982 )