One of the most influential filmmakers of our time, Akira Kurosawa has
inspired a whole breed of world-class film directors including George Lucas,
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorcese, Francis Ford Coppola and John Woo, to
name a few.
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was an unsuccessful painter who turned to making
movies in Japan in the late 1930s.It was with
Rashomon
in 1951, when he won the Golden Lion Award at the International Film Festival in Venice,
that he grabbed the world’s attention.
