00:00Akira Kurosawa
00:06Akira Kurosawa was born March 23, 1910, in Orami, Tokyo, the youngest of seven children.
00:14Far from being a brilliant pupil, one of his professors was able to develop an early passion that surely influenced his directing career, painting.
00:23Encouraged by his family, Akira adapts this skill to cinema in 1936 and begins work in the film industry as an assistant director.
00:33Seven years later, Kurosawa made his directorial debut with Sugata Sanshiro.
00:39The film was a success and was followed by the films Drunken Angel and Stray Dog.
00:44This led to the production of Rashomand, which brought Kurosawa international fame and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
00:54Kurosawa is best known for his period pieces known as Jedageki, or period play, such as Seven Samurai and Ran.
01:03In addition, several of his films dealt with contemporary Japan.
01:07For example, Akira, which deals with the Japanese bureaucrat and his struggles.
01:12These early films allowed Kurosawa to create a specific style giving all of his films a unique look.
01:17He favored telephoto lenses and pioneered the use of multiple cameras, a now common practice.
01:25Kurosawa was also one of the first to use weather to heighten the mood as he did in Seven Samurai, one of his greatest films.
01:33Winner of a Silver Lion from the Venice Film Festival, the film is often considered one of the ten greatest movies ever.
01:40Winner of a Silver Lion from the Venice Film Festival, and the New Guinea!
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01:46Go, stay, go!
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01:50¡Hadubu, yürü!
02:20Siempre con la muerte.
02:30No hay ni alguien que
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02:45¡Hadubu, yowi!
02:48Cuáo, comu.
02:50¡Gracias!
03:20Battle Beyond the Stars and De Geek Fostok are all remakes of The Seven Samurai.
03:25The comedy film Three Amigos spun a twist on the samurai plot.
03:29The gun-slinging Ronin are actually professional actors who think they are being hired to pretend to save a town from bandits.
03:37The same idea was later replicated in the animated film A Bug's Life and Star Trek spoof Galaxy Quest.
03:45The Seven Samurai theme also had been adopted into several novels.
03:49Stephen King's novel Wolves of the Kala being just one of them.
03:54Seven Samurai was not the only Kurosawa film that inspired other films.
03:59Yojimbo's story of a conniving bodyguard was later retold as A Fistful of Dollars, Youth of the Beast, and The Last Man Standing.
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07:16fue el hecho de que la historia fue contada por los dos personajes
07:19y decidió que eso sería una manera de contar la historia de Star Wars,
07:23que es tomar los dos personajes, como Kurosawa,
07:27y contar la historia desde su punto de vista,
07:30que en el caso de Star Wars es el dos.
07:33La relación entre R2-D2 y C-3PO es muy similar
07:37a la de Tahi y Matakihi.
07:40También, los personajes de Princess Leia y Obi-Wan Kenobi
07:44mirrored those of General Rotokora Mahibi
07:48y Princess Yukimihi.
07:50Yukimihi's technique of disguising herself as a peasant
07:53is mirrored in the first Star Wars prequel by Queen Amidala,
07:58who disguises herself as the handmaiden Padme.
08:02Kurosawa adapted as many ideas from the West as he borrowed,
08:06his most notable inspiration being William Shakespeare.
08:10The Bad Sleepwell, based on Hamlet,
08:13Ran, based on King Lear,
08:15and Throne of Blood, based on Macbeth.
08:18In 1971, Akira attempted suicide after several of his movies failed
08:24and he lost all financing.
08:26Fortunately, his attempt failed and he was hired to direct a Russian film,
08:30Derusu Usala, made in the USSR and set in Siberia.
08:35It was the only Kurosawa film made outside Japan and not in Japanese.
08:40It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
08:43Two Kurosawa admirers, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola,
08:48financed his next film, Kagemusha,
08:51the story of a man who is the devil of a medieval Japanese lord
08:54and takes over his identity.
08:56The film is based on the tale of the Prince and the Pauper.
08:59The film won a golden palm at the Kine Film Festival.
09:02Most important was Ran,
09:04Kurosawa's version of King Lear set in medieval Japan.
09:08It was the great project of Kurosawa's late career
09:11and he spent a decade planning it and trying to obtain funding.
09:15The film was a phenomenal international success
09:18and it is generally considered Kurosawa's last masterpiece.
09:22Ran was Kurosawa's favorite film.
09:25It had been hailed for its powerful images and expert use of color
09:29and won the Academy Award for Costume Design in 1985.
09:34The film also pioneered the practice of replacing sound with film score,
09:38a method used commonly in films today,
09:40including Saving Private Ryan and Lord of the Rings.
09:48In 1990, Kurosawa was awarded an honorary Oscar
09:52for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired,
09:55delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences
09:59and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.
10:02This was only his second Oscar.
10:04Kurosawa continued to make films
10:07through the last years of his life.
10:09Dreams is a series of vignettes based on his own dreams.
10:13Rhapsody in August is about memories of the Nagasaki Adam Bomb
10:18and his final film, Matadayo,
10:20is about a retired teacher and his former students.
10:23On September 6, 1998,
10:26the legacy ended when renowned Japanese director died at the age of 88.
10:30Kurosawa, the sensei of cinema,
10:34had finally gone.
10:35Kurosawa's technical proficiency
10:37and poetic translations
10:38of traditional Japanese theater
10:40into epic form
10:42brought Japanese film to the rest of the world.
10:44But it is his cinematic innovations
10:46that change modern filmmaking
10:48that he will be remembered for.
10:50I think somebody asked Kurosawa once,
10:53you know,
10:54what is in your movies?
10:56And what are they about?
10:57And why are you making them?
11:00And he said he's always trying to answer the question,
11:03why can't people be happier?
11:05And why can't they be happier together?
11:08Those are the areas we know,
11:09so let's get out of line.
11:11Let's take care of each of these other.
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