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 | Subject: Akira Kurosawa  Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:16 pm | |
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- Akira Kurosawa (Kyūjitai: 黒澤 明, Shinjitai: 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira?, 23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese filmmaker, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film (Sanshiro Sugata) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Légion d'honneur and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.
His influence
Kurosawa's films have had a major influence on world cinema and continue to inspire filmmakers, and others, around the globe.
Seven Samurai
Western Film
Seven Samurai has been remade several times in assorted cinema genres, including Westerns, Science Fiction, and Chinese Martial Arts. The main versions, all of which directly use the same plot structure, comprise:
* The Magnificent Seven (1960, Dir. John Sturges)[1]
* Beach of the War Gods (1973, Prod. Run Run Shaw)
* Battle Beyond the Stars (1980, Prod. Roger Corman)
* World Gone Wild (1988, Dir. Lee Katzin)
Indian movies
The film has inspired Indian films which feature similar plots:
* Khotay Sikkay
* Rajkumar Santoshi's China Gate
* Kamal Hassan's Virumaandi
* Sholay (1975, Dir. Ramesh Sippy. )
Novels
The story was also used as inspiration in numerous novels, among them Stephen King's 5th Dark Tower novel, Wolves of the Calla.
Rashomon
Rashomon was also remade by Martin Ritt in 1964's The Outrage. The Tamil films Andha Naal (1954) and Virumaandi (2004), starring Kamal Hassan, employ a storytelling method similar to the one Kurosawa uses in Rashomon. In a more recent incarnation, the film "Hero" starring Jet Li, Ziyi Zhang, Tony Leung, and Maggie Cheung also features a 'Rashomon' style story. The 2005 animated film "Hoodwinked" applies the narrative structure of "Rashomon" to the story of "Little Red Riding Hood."
Rashomon not only helped open Japanese cinema to the world, but also entered the English language as a term for fractured, inconsistent narratives (see rashomon effect).
Yojimbo
Yojimbo was the basis for the Sergio Leone western A Fistful of Dollars and two Bruce Willis films, prohibition-era Last Man Standing.
The Hidden Fortress
The Hidden Fortress is an acknowledged influence on George Lucas's Star Wars films, in particular Episodes IV and VI and most notably in the characters of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Lucas also used a modified version of Kurosawa's wipe transition effect throughout the Star Wars saga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa | |
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