Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

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Mifune has been credited as originating the " roving warrior " archetype, which he perfected during his collaboration with Kurosawa.

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.

' The influence of Yojimbo in particular ( and Kurosawa films in general ) on the animated series has been noted by Matthew Millheiser at DVDtalk.

More recently Kurosawa has released Akarui Mirai ( Bright Future ) ( 2003 ), starring Tadanobu Asano, the first film of his shot with a 24p High-definition video camera.

The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola ( including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro ), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films ( THX 1138 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

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

Star Wars creator George Lucas has admitted to being inspired significantly by the period works of Akira Kurosawa, and many thematic elements found in Star Wars bear the influence of Chanbara filmmaking.

The hotel and island has been bought by an old friend of Kurosawa, who wishes to honor his memory with a final performance of The Phantom of the Opera, before tearing the place down for good.

Baisho has also been in films of Akira Kurosawa.

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 ).

San Drad, California, has been overrun by Aliens, and the cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa have been abandoned by their superiors and are cornered by a swarm of Alien drones.

; Shiro Kurosawa: A young man who only appeared in Episode 19 and has a habit of ending most sentences with the suffix "- su ".

" Richie also has written analyses of two of Japan's best known filmmakers: Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa.

Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and " loner " directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Largely unknown outside of Japan until recent years, the film has been hailed by critics ( Tadao Sato, Donald Richie ), and a number of other Japanese filmmakers ( Akira Kurosawa among them ) as one of the most influential examples of jidaigeki, or Japanese period films.

Teruyo Nogami, who was Kurosawa's long-time script supervisor, wrote in her memoirs that scriptwriter Hideo Oguni told Kurosawa that Mifune's performance had been " all wrong ".

The parable regarding Motonari, his three sons, and the lesson of the three arrows is believed have been a source of inspiration for Akira Kurosawa when he was writing his epic film Ran.

The cinematography and scenes of set-pieces have been described as " ballets of light and color " ( as in films by Akira Kurosawa ).

Following five years of second unit director work on films such as Uma and Roppa's Honeymoon, Kurosawa was finally given the go-ahead to direct his first film, even though he himself claimed that, in films like Uma, " I had been so much in charge of production I had felt like the director ".

* 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.

He thinks little of the minions of Hell and tries to destroy Kurosawa in their first meeting.

He also quotes Kurosawa criticizing the way the " Japanese think too little of our own things ".

Joining kaRIN and Statik this time around, and for their first live performances a little later in the year, were Scott Landes ( guitar ), Rogerio Silva ( guitar ), Chaz Pease ( drums ), and Kai Kurosawa ( Warr Guitar / bass ).

Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Although he had demonstrated no previous interest in film as a profession, Kurosawa submitted the required essay, which asked applicants to discuss the fundamental deficiencies of Japanese films and find ways to overcome them.

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

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 >

Also in 1954, both another Kurosawa film, Ikiru, and Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story were in competition at the 4th Berlin International Film Festival.

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.

The film was based on an idea by Akira Kurosawa.

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

Kurosawa highly valued Mifune for his effortless portrayal of unvarnished emotion, once commenting that he could convey in only three feet of film an emotion for which the average Japanese actor would require ten feet.

Kurosawa first encountered Mifune when Toho Studios, the largest film production company in Japan, was conducting a massive talent search, during which hundreds of aspiring actors auditioned before a team of judges.

* Cure ( film ), a 1997 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa wrote the original screenplay intending it to be his first color film following Red Beard, but difficulties with the American financial backers led to it being shelved.

is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshirō Mifune.

is a 1950 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Kurosawa felt that sound cinema multiplies the complexity of a film: " Cinematic sound is never merely accompaniment, never merely what the sound machine caught while you took the scene.

Stanley Kauffman writes in The Impact of Rashomon that Kurosawa often shot a scene with several cameras at the same time, so that he could " cut the film freely and splice together the pieces which have caught the action forcefully, as if flying from one piece to another.

Even the actors kept approaching Kurosawa wanting to know the truth, which he claimed was not the point of the film as he intended it to be an exploration of multiple realities rather than an exposition of a particular truth.