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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.

Kurosawa has been quoted as saying that he thinks little of the film, calling it “ too technical ” while also remarking that it contains “ all that technique and not one real thought in it .” His attitude had changed by 1982, when he wrote in his autobiography that “ no shooting ever went as smoothly ,” and that “ the excellent pace of the shooting and the good feeling of the crew can be sensed in the finished film .”

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.

Kurosawa was born on 23 March 1910 in Ōimachi in the Ōmori district of Tokyo.

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 >

The script was based on a story by Akira Kurosawa, and paired Voight with Eric Roberts as a fellow escapee.

Kurosawa refused to shoot the peasant village at Toho Studios and had a complete set constructed on the Izu Peninsula.

Walter Bernstein, a blacklisted scriptwriter, was commissioned by Morheim to produce the first draft " faithfully " adapted from the original script written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; when Mirisch and Brynner took over the production, they brought on Walter Newman, whose version " is largely what's on screen.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail ( 1945 ), and the post-war Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), and Stray Dog ( 1949 ), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s.

As director Akira Kurosawa later described, the benshi " not only recounted the plot of the films, they enhanced the emotional content by performing the voices and sound effects and providing evocative descriptions of events and images on the screen ....

The film was based on an idea by Akira Kurosawa.

The screenplay by Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel and Edward Bunker was based on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawa with uncredited contributions by frequent Kurosawa collaborators Hideo Oguni and Ryuzo Kikushima.

* Rashomon ( film ), a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on two stories by Akutagawa

Séance on a Wet Afternoon was remade in 2000 as the Japanese language horror film Seance (, Kōrei ), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Although the author of the novel upon which Red Beard was based offered Kurosawa praise on the completed film, Nogami wrote that Oguni's comment caused Kurosawa for the first time to question Mifune's abilities, and Kurosawa never again sought to work with Mifune.

According to Prince, this is also the only Kurosawa film to feature nudity ( in a scene where doctors suture a large wound on a young woman who was still semi-conscious ).

* Oni the title of a linked video game and film project based on an unfinished Akira Kurosawa script, that was later renamed Ni-Oh

is a 1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams of the film's director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life.

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

The Magnificent Seven was based on Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa whose Yojimbo ( The Bodyguard ) was the inspiration ( and later, litigation ) behind a Leone's A Fistful of Dollars.

After Kurosawa scolded Mifune for arriving late to the set one morning, Mifune made it a point to be ready on set at 6: 00 AM every day in full makeup and costume.

This was the second film on which director Akira Kurosawa had worked with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

This outside scriptwriting would serve Kurosawa as a lucrative sideline lasting well into the 1960s, long after he became world-famous .< ref >

When it worked, Kurosawa said the happiness he felt at that moment was " indescribable ".

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.

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 ".