After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

After Cobain committed suicide in 1994, Love began using heroin again regularly, but quit using the drug in 1996 at the insistence of director Miloš Forman when she landed a starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery ( 1933 ) and Viva Villa ( 1934 ), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery.

After making the World War II film Air Force in 1943 starring John Garfield, Hawks made two films with Hollywood and real life lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

After supporting roles in the television series ER ( 1996 ) and films such as Wag the Dog ( 1997 ), Small Soldiers ( 1998 ) and The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ), Dunst transitioned into romantic comedies and comedy dramas, starring in Drop Dead Gorgeous ( 1999 ), Bring It On ( 2000 ), Get Over It and Crazy / Beautiful ( both 2001 ).

After his release, Hargrove wrote a book about his ordeal which inspired the 2000 film Proof of Life starring Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.

After making a cameo appearance in the romantic comedy She's All That, Gellar had the starring role in Simply Irresistible, film that premiered in early 1999.

After directing the drama Fast Workers ( 1933 ) starring John Gilbert, who was also not in good standing with the studio, he was allowed to direct a remake of London After Midnight, originally titled Vampires of Prague but later retitled Mark of the Vampire ( 1935 ).

After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

Newton-John began 1980 by releasing " I Can't Help It " ( No. 12 Pop, No. 8 AC ), a duet with Andy Gibb from his After Dark album, and by starring in her third television special, Hollywood Nights.

After the release of The IPCRESS File in 1965, Saltzman's production company made Funeral in Berlin ( 1966 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1967 ), both starring Michael Caine.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

After learning that Welles was in the cast, Heston expressed his greater interest in starring if Welles were directing.

After 20 years on the rodeo circuit, his distinctive Oklahoma-Texas drawl ( even though he was a lifelong Californian ), his wide eyes and moon face and strong physical presence gained him a role in the western Rocky Mountain ( 1950 ) starring Errol Flynn.

After the series of pilots called Seven of One, he gained starring roles in the sitcoms Porridge, its sequel Going Straight and Open All Hours.

After the success of Monsoon Wedding, Nair collaborated with writer Julian Fellowes on her 2004 adaptation of Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon.

Scott is best remembered for starring alongside June Whitfield in several series of the comedy Happy Ever After and its successor, Terry and June.

After the release of The Petrified Forest, Friz Freleng made the short-length cartoon parody She Was an Acrobat's Daughter ( 1937 ), which portrays a cinema audience watching The Petrified Florist, starring Bette Davis and Lester Coward.

Lauper came up with the title for " Time After Time " while reading TV Guide — Time After Time was a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as H. G. Wells, portraying him inventing and then traveling in a time machine.

* Time After Time ( 2011 film ), a TV movie starring Richard Thomas

* Time After Time ( TV series ), a 1994-1995 UK sitcom starring Brian Conley

After the success of his 1968 breakthrough, De Palma and his producing partner ( Charles Hirsch ) were given the opportunity by Sigma 3 to make an unofficial sequel of sorts, initially entitled Son of Greetings, and subsequently released as Hi, Mom !.

After fifteen years in development hell, a direct sequel was released called Duke Nukem Forever.

After the release of the Game Boy sequel Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters in 1991, the game series lay dormant for 20 years.

After the release of the seventh film, Star Trek Generations, in 1994, Paramount tasked writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore with developing a sequel.

After one game has been completed, the player is given a password that allows the other game to be played as a sequel.

After the cancellation of the Alf Garnett sequel series In Sickness And In Health, Mitchell returned to the role of Alf on a number of occasions.

After the brief success of the Kerensky Offensive 1 – 19 July and its disastrous sequel, when Ludendorff's general reserve of six divisions captured Riga, 1 – 5 September 1917 and then in Operation Albion September – October 1917 took the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, British and French commanders on the Western Front had to reckon on the German western army being strengthened by reinforcements from the Eastern Front in late 1917.

Alexandre Dumas, père mentions of Pentecost in Twenty Years After ( French: Vingt ans après ), the sequel to The Three Musketeers.

Bronson Beta is settled by survivors of the catastrophe in the sequel After Worlds Collide.

After the events of Infinite Crisis, the sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths, many historical events from the multiverse are now being remembered.

Filmation's last production was the feature film Happily Ever After ( a sequel to the story of Snow White ), released to theaters 4 years later in 1993.

After Taxi ended, DeVito began a successful film career, starting with roles in 1983's Terms of Endearment, and as the comic rogue in the romantic adventure Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and its 1985 sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.

* After the Fall is Over ( long in progress ; sequel to The Skies of Pern ) – set after the Ninth Pass in " New Era Pern ", the latest in Pern historical order.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

After the Thin Man is a 1936 American film, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart, that is the sequel to the film The Thin Man.

* After another guard has his head eaten by ill-tempered mutated sea bass, his friends ( led by Rob Lowe, who would play the younger No. 2 in the sequel and has previously worked with Mike Myers in the film version of Wayne's World and with Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire ) hosting a surprise Bachelor's Party at a Hooters are notified of his death.

After the unexpected success of Easy Rider, and impressed by Meyer's frugality and profitability, 20th Century Fox signed him to produce and direct a proposed sequel to Valley of the Dolls in 1969, fulfilling his longstanding ambition to direct for a major Hollywood studio.

He has been portrayed on film three times: in the 1951 film Sirocco ( dealing with the Syrian insurrection against France ), by Jeff Corey ; David Lean's epic Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), played by Alec Guinness, and in the unofficial sequel to Lawrence, A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia ( 1990 ) by Alexander Siddig.

After Sylvia, the sequel to The Secret Life of Owen Skye, was published in 2004.

After his time on TV he appeared in a number of movies, most notably Problem Child and its first sequel.

After Dragon Half ended, Ryūsuke Mita created a sequel one-shot called Dragon Half Z about Mink's seven-year-old daughter Pink.

After the release of Beneath a Steel Sky-Remastered, Charles Cecil and Dave Gibbons stated that a sequel could be likely and that iPhone would be the ideal platform.

After Super Metroid, Metroid fans eagerly awaited a sequel.