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About the Creator of Seven Samurai: Akira Kurosawa

 

Akira Kurosawa On Set Of Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

(Director/Screenwriter)

(1910-1998)


 A Japanese Filmmaker and a painter who directed thirty films for nearly fifty-seven years. Akira Kurosawa is well known for Ran, Rashomon, and Seven Samurai, all of which make him one of the most influential filmmakers in cinema. In the last years of his life, he won an Honorary International Oscar for his contributions to cinema. Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Roman Polanski, Bernard Bertolucci, Andrei Tarvosky, Sidney Lumet, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert Altman, praised, lauded, and drew inspiration from Kurosawa. Especially from Rashomon. He died of a stroke at the age of 88. 


How Akira Kurosawa Made Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa took inspiration from a story about Samurai defending farmers. It took six weeks to create the screenplay, and they were innovative as they refined, remixed, and remade the theme of the assembly of heroic characters. As of this, it was one of the first few films to use the trope of recruiting and gathering heroes into a team. Akira Kurosawa shot the fillm for over 148 shooting days, making the budget close to half a million dollars, with Toho Studios closing down production twice. But Kurosawa would go fishing, and after a while, Toho Studios would allow him to complete the picture again. During filming, he created his film with multiple cameras, with one camera in the an normal shooting-position, while using another for a more faster, shakier, action-filled unit, and then one for quick shots. It made for some extremely complicated shoots, which Kurosawa had diagrams to choreograph the movements. Eventually, when it was finished, it was Japan's third highest-grossing film of 1954, exceeding Godzilla in sales.

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