" 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.

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 )

* In Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha ( 1980 ), the warlord Takeda Shingen ( 1521 – 73 ) is sometimes impersonated by his brother Nobukado.

With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.

His best known films are La jetée ( 1962 ), A Grin Without a Cat ( 1977 ), Sans Soleil ( 1983 ) and AK ( 1985 ), an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

Cues from these scores were used to almost completely replace the original Japanese score by Akira Ifukube and give the film a more Western sound.

Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa ( supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya ), the film starred Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, and Eisei Amamoto.

Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa ( supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya ), the film starred Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, and Akihiko Hirata.

The ninth film in the Godzilla series, it starred Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi and Yoshio Tsuchiya.

The film was also the last to be produced by the four " Godzilla fathers ", with Ishirō Honda directing, Eiji Tsuburaya supervising the special effects ( with Sadamasa Arikawa actually directing ), Tomoyuki Tanaka producing, and Akira Ifukube handling the film's score.

He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.

While the serialization of Akira was taking place, Otomo decided to animate it into a feature film, although the comic was yet to be finished.

In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.

Tora !, once Akira Kurosawa left the film.

is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.

The film was the first samurai film that Akira Kurosawa had ever directed.

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

( originally Dodesukaden " Clickety-clack ") is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa and based on the Shūgorō Yamamoto ( pen name of Satomu Shimizu ) book Kisetsu no nai machi (" The Town Without Seasons ").

In a Go salon, Hikaru defeats Akira Toya twice, a boy his age who plays Go at professional level, by following Sai's instruction.

is a manga by CLAMP about a nine-year-old boy named Akira Ijyuin who steals beautiful and valuable objects to please his two mothers and is known to the public as the dashing, clever thief named the Man of 20 Faces.

However good he is, Akira is still an innocent boy in love.

He's unaware that Akira is in fact 20 Faces, though he gets along with the boy very well otherwise.

Tetsuo breaks open the underground cryogenic chamber and releases Akira, who turns out to be an ordinary-looking little boy.

As Akira is being taken into the Colonel's custody, Nezu attempts to shoot the boy rather than have him be put into government hands ; he is immediately fired upon and killed by the Colonel's men.

After losing Akira, he finds Ryu in a dark corridor with the boy in tow.

A young boy with psychic powers named Akira Tadokoro is orphaned when his father, a police officer, dies in a fight with the Crusaders.

A young Japanese boy, Akira Hibiki, is alerted about the Demon Empire by a mysterious voice and rushes to the pyramid.

Their chief goal is to capture a young boy, named Akira.