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Akira Kurosawa was born to Isamu and Shima Kurosawa on 23 March 1910.[2] He was the youngest of eight children born to the Kurosawas in a suburb of Tokyo. Shima Kurosawa was forty years old at the time of Akira's birth and his father Isamu was forty-five. Akira Kurosawa grew up in a household with three older brothers and four older sisters. Of his three older brothers, one died before Akira was born and one was already grown and out of the household. One of his four older sisters had also left the home to begin her own family before Kurosawa was born. Kurosawa's next-oldest sibling, a sister he called "Little Big Sister," also died suddenly after a short illness when he was ten years old.
Kurosawa's father worked as the director of a junior high school operated by the Japanese military and the Kurosawas descended from a line of former samurai. Financially, the family was above average. Isamu Kurosawa embraced western culture both in the athletic programs that he directed and by taking the family to see films, which were then just beginning to appear in Japanese theaters. Later, when Japanese culture turned away from western films, Isamu Kurosawa continued to believe that films were a positive educational experience.
In primary school, Akira Kurosawa was encouraged to draw by a teacher who took an interest in mentoring his talents. His older brother, Heigo, had a profound impact on him. Heigo was very intelligent and won several academic competitions, but also had what was later called a cynical or dark side. In 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake destroyed Tokyo and left 100,000 people dead. In the wake of this event, Heigo, 17, and Akira, 13, made a walking tour of the devastation. Corpses of humans and animals were piled everywhere. When Akira would attempt to turn his head away, Heigo urged him not to. According to Akira, this experience would later instruct him that to look at a frightening thing head-on is to defeat its ability to cause fear.[3]
Heigo eventually began a career as a benshi in Tokyo film theaters. Benshi narrated silent films for the audience and were a uniquely Japanese addition to the theater experience. However, with the impact of talking pictures on the rise, benshi were losing work all over Japan. Heigo organized a benshi strike that failed. Akira was likewise involved in labor-management struggles, writing several articles for a radical newspaper while improving and expanding his skills as a painter and reading literature.
When Akira Kurosawa was in his early 20s, his older brother Heigo committed suicide. Four months later, the oldest of Kurosawa's brothers also died, leaving Akira as the only surviving son of an original four at age 23.
Kurosawa's wife was actress Yoko Yaguchi.[4] He had two children with her: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko.
Kurosawa was a close friend of director Ishiro Honda, who directed the original Godzilla.[5]
1951 – Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Rashomon
1951 – Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film for Rashomon
1954 – Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Seven Samurai
1959 – Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for The Hidden Fortress
1975 – Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film for Dersu Uzala
1980 – Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Kagemusha
1982 – Japan Foundation: Japan Foundation Award.[38]
1982 – Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
1984 – Légion d'honneur
1985 – Order of Culture
1989 – Honorary Academy Award
1992 – Praemium Imperiale
1999 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the Japanese Academy Awards
1990 – Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
1943 - Sanshiro Sugata - aka Judo Saga
1944 - The Most Beautiful
1945 - Sanshiro Sugata Part II - aka Judo Saga 2 - The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1946 - No Regrets for Our Youth
1947 - One Wonderful Sunday
1948 - Drunken Angel
1949 - The Quiet Duel - Stray Dog
1950 - Scandal – Rashomon
1951 - The Idiot
1952 - Ikiru - aka To Live
1954 - Seven Samurai
1955 - I Live in Fear
1957 - Throne of Blood - The Lower Depths
1958 - The Hidden Fortress
1960 - The Bad Sleep Well
1961 - Yojimbo
1962 - Sanjuro
1963 - High and Low - aka Heaven and Hell
1965 - Red Beard