Abstract
Akira Kurosawa was an award winning Japanese film director whose work transcended cultural genres to embrace universal cinematic themes. His films influenced directors such as George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, and Steven Spielberg. His work has garnered over 50 international awards, including honors from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, among many others. He introduced a number of novel techniques and narratives to film making in Japan, and in doing so influenced the work of other directors around the world. His innovative adaptations of Western and Japanese literary classics, blending from diverse sources including noh, kabuki, Shakespeare, and Dostoyevsky, led to a highly individualistic style with mass global appeal. Kurosawa completed 31 films before his death in 1998, playing a major role in the creation of a truly global cinema that drew from Western and non-Western traditions alike.
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