Akira Kurosawa | Writer, Director, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998), was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, proucer and editor. He directed a number of highly regarded films such as Shanshiro Sugata, Drunken Angel, Rashomon, The Idiot, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Dodesukaden, and Dersu Uzala. After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work, including his final two epics, Kagemusha and Ran, continued to win awards, including the Palme d'Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.