biography
pronunciation:
[kurohsahwa]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–98)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Tokyo, Japan. He began as a painter, and joined a cinema studio in 1936, making his first feature film (Sanshiro Sugata) in 1943. He was renowned for his adaptation of the techniques of the Noh theatre to film-making, in such films as Rashomon (1950), which won the Venice Film Festival Prize, and Shichinin No Samurai (1954, The Seven Samurai). Also characteristic were his literary adaptations, such as Kumonosu-Jo (1957, The Throne of Blood, from Macbeth) and Donzoko (1957, The Lower Depths, from Gorky). Later films included Kagemusha (1980, Palme d'Or, BAFTA best director), Ran (1985, from King Lear), Dreams (1990), and Madadayo (1993). |
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