" 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.

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 )

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

Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

In 1957, Akira Kuninaka realized that the ribonucleotide GMP present in shiitake mushrooms also conferred the umami taste.

" Receptors mGluR1 and mGluR4 are specific to glutamate whereas T1R1 + T1R3 are responsible for the synergism already described by Akira Kuninaka in 1957.

Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

* 1957: Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, adapted the story into the film Donzoko ( The Lower Depths ), starring Toshirō Mifune, in which the characters have been moved to Edo period Japan.

Adaptations in languages other than English flourish around the globe, such as Akira Kurosawa's two epic films Throne of Blood ( 1957 ) and Ran ( 1985 ), and Eric Rohmer's Conte d ' hiver ( A Tale of Winter, 1992 ).

In addition to other science fiction thrillers ( often with the other three members of the Godzilla team: Honda and Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube ) such as The Mysterians ( 1957 ) and Matango ( 1963 ), Tanaka produced films directed by the acclaimed Akira Kurosawa.

The film's special effects were provided by Akira Watanabe, who had worked as an art director on many tokusatsu films such as the 1957 Toho sci-fi classic, The Mysterians.

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

Otomo is apparently going to be the executive producer of the live action adaptation of his manga series Akira.

In 1985 a major screen adaptation of the play appeared: Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

, spelled as Freeza in the Japanese version, Freezer in English and Spanish version is a fictional character, a Supervillain and a major antagonist from Frieza arc of the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama, who first introduced the character in his manga Dragon Ball, followed by its anime adaptation Dragon Ball Z. Frieza also appears in the television special Bardock: The Father of Goku, two Dragon Ball Z movies, the side story The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, and in Dragon Ball GT.

* Gordon, the pet devil of Ackman in Akira Toriyama's manga series Go Go Ackman and its video game adaptation

Otomo's Akira projects – the manga and its animated film adaptation – marked his transition from a career primarily in the creation and design of printed manga to one almost exclusively in the creation, direction and design of anime for television and film.

The plot is loosely based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai, and the subsequent western adaptation, The Magnificent Seven.

The manga team of Akira Himekawa has been producing manga adaptations of the The Legend of Zelda video games in Japan beginning with their manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which was first published in 1999 by Shogakukan.

It was announced in February 2010 that the brothers have been tapped to direct a live-action adaptation of the 1988 manga Akira.

In Throne of Blood, a Japanese adaptation of the play, Fleance is replaced by Yoshiteru, a character played by Akira Kobu.