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Kurosawa was born in Fandi 1 150, Dajing Town, Wuyuan County, Tokyo (now near Dongdajing Fandi 18, Pinchuan County). Father Kurosawa is the fourth son of mother Kurosawa and the last of four brothers and sisters. After graduating from junior high school, Kurosawa was keen on painting and determined to become a painter. Influenced by his brother's sudden suicide, Akira Kurosawa entered PCL Film Company (the predecessor of Dongbao Film Company) on 1934 and got an assistant director. He studied directing and scriptwriting under the guidance of director Kajir? Yamamoto. Kurosawa called him the best teacher in his life. With the help of the teacher, Kurosawa got a real exercise, promoted from the third deputy director to the first deputy director, and became a competent director in Class B. Later, he published Germans in Dharma Temple and Silence and Snow as a playwright. Has been widely praised. From 65438 to 0943, Akira Kurosawa, a senior assistant director with many years' experience and a well-known young playwright who has written more than a dozen plays, independently directed his debut novel "Zi San Si Lang" and became famous in one fell swoop. Together with Keisuke Kinoshita, the director of Flower of the Harbor, it is regarded as the new hope of Japanese films. 1948, Akira Kurosawa directed the wooden barrel again, insisted on using Junlang of Mifune as the leading actor in Drunk Angel, and started the "Golden Age of Akira Kurosawa" composed of Bibi, Akira Kurosawa and Junlang of Mifune, becoming the strongest Japanese film partner. Before Red Beard arrived in 65,438+07, the works directed by Akira Kurosawa and Junlang Mifune included Rashomon, Idiot, Seven Samurai, Record of Life, Spider's Nest City, Darby and Heaven and Hell. Rashomon, shot at 1950, won the Venice International Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film the following year. From then on, Kurosawa became famous in the world film industry, and Mifune Junlang won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival successively for "The Guard" and "The Red Beard", which also laid the title of "The World Blackpool, the World Minlang Tragedy" in the Japanese film industry. The period from the second half of 1960 to the beginning of 1970 was the low tide of Kurosawa's creation, and his relationship with Junlang of Mifune suddenly broke down. Since then, the two have ignored each other and no longer cooperated. 1970, his adaptation of Sh?gor? Yamamoto's novel City without Seasons failed at the box office, and Akira Kurosawa even attempted suicide. From 65438 to 0975, his Japanese-Russian joint venture film Desu Uzara won the gold medal at the Moscow Film Festival and the Oscar for best foreign language film. 1980 Shadow Warrior won the Palme d 'Or at Cannes Film Festival. 1990, "Emperor Akira Kurosawa" became the first Asian filmmaker to win a lifetime achievement award in Oscar history. 1998, the death of Kurosawa, a great master, indicates that the traditional film in the era of big studios is gradually withdrawing from the historical stage and moving closer to the modern film concept, which has opened a more touching scene in the Japanese film era.

This period of the editor's creative career

Akira Kurosawa was born in 19 10 in a samurai family in Tokyo, Japan. He received a very strict education since he was a child. His father not only made him learn kendo, but also forced him to learn calligraphy. However, he was very interested in painting and once wanted to be a painter, but it was difficult to become a painter at that time. He experienced the most dramatic century in Japanese history, and it changed from a semi-feudal dynasty to an industrial power. When Kurosawa was 26 years old, he accidentally chose to enter the film industry and started his own film life.

On September 1923 and 1 day, a strong earthquake occurred in kanto region, and two thirds of the buildings in the urban area were destroyed. The death toll is almost equivalent to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima. Kurosawa was thirteen years old that year. Kurosawa's original dream was to become an artist. He studied western painting in middle school and participated in an organization called the League of Proletarian Artists, which often talked about the topic of revolution.

1936, Kurosawa saw in a newspaper advertisement that a film company called PCL was looking for an assistant director, and he signed up. This company is the future Dongbao Huaying. Kurosawa was 26 years old this year. It wasn't until 1943 that Akira Kurosawa was allowed to direct his first film, Kojiro, which was based on a novel about a young judo teacher. Although Akira Kurosawa was the first director, he was very popular in Japan. The movie Rashomon failed in Japan, but it was an unexpected success in the west. 195 1 This film was selected for the Venice Film Festival and won the enviable Golden Lion Award.

1990, 80-year-old Japanese director Akira Kurosawa won the lifetime achievement award at the Oscar ceremony.

Until the death of 1998, Kurosawa directed more than 30 films, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Spider Palace Castle and Chaos. His works have a great influence on other directors, such as george lucas and Steven Allan Spielberg, who regard Akira Kurosawa as movie master. In Japan, he was accused of catering to the international audience too much and exposing Japanese society to the West too much.

Kurosawa's film Rashomon 195 1 won the Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival. This is the first time that a Western film festival has awarded the first prize to an Asian director. This is undoubtedly a milestone, because since then, western society has not only known Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, but also really known Asian films through his films.

Kurosawa grew up in a samurai family in Japan. When he was young, an accidental choice made him enter the film industry. After seven years as an assistant director, he directed his first film, Junichiro, and the film Rashomon 65438 to 0950 established Kurosawa's position in the world film industry. In the following decades, Akira Kurosawa continued to shoot masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.

In the next few years, Kurosawa created several masterpieces in succession, all of which described how people lived a kind life in hardships. Self-sacrifice and moral commitment are the central themes of many Kurosawa films, which are closely related to his samurai family background. Kurosawa insisted that the script should be based on real events, so he and the film crew made an in-depth exploration of Japanese history in order to get more information about samurai.

The Seven Samurai is the most expensive film shot by Dongbao, because the shooting time is four times as long as originally planned. Kurosawa and his film crew managed to finish the film, but it brought Dongbao Huaying to the brink of bankruptcy. Kurosawa's adventure paid off. The Seven Samurai was a great success in Japan, recognized in the West, and won him a reputation as a world-class artist.

1960, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai was remake by john Sturges and named Seven Nobles. James Cowburn plays the flying knife cowboy, and the character image is directly taken from Kurosawa's samurai swordsman.

1968, 20th Century Fox announced that Akira Kurosawa would be the director of the Japanese part in a grand war epic about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Three weeks after the boot, Kurosawa left the crew, and the last film didn't use the role he directed at all. By 1968, TV dramas have completely occupied the Japanese market.

1972, Akira Kurosawa accepted the invitation of the Soviet Union to shoot a Russian film Deusuzara. At that time, the Soviet film company was still controlled by the state, and he cooperated with a large group of Russians. The film took more than two years to complete. This film tells the story of an expedition going deep into the wilderness at the turn of the century. Most of the location in the film was shot in Siberia. 1976, the film de Usara won the Oscar for best foreign language film.

As making movies becomes more and more difficult to make a living, Kurosawa has to find new sources of income. One option is to shoot a group of advertisements for Japanese whisky near his residence in Japan. He directed it himself and made a guest appearance.

Kurosawa completed the filming of Shadow Warrior with foreign funding. Francis coppola raised enough money with the help of his good friend george lucas. Lucas, who just finished filming Star Wars, said that he was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's works.

Kurosawa's Shadow Warrior takes the audience back to the Warring States period, and he presents an epic about loyalty and the war between two rival families. However, his mood during this period was even more gloomy, and the horror of war shown in this film also brought a strong shock to the audience.

After filming Shadow Warrior, Akira Kurosawa set out to shoot Chaos based on Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear. Chaos makes Akira Kurosawa look possessed. He often falls into fantasy, and his mind is full of images he wants to shoot. At the end of the film is a prophetic bloody massacre, which evokes Kurosawa's most terrible childhood memories.

When Akira Kurosawa needs to relieve the fatigue of shooting or write something, he will stay in Tokyo for several weeks. He always stays in a simple small hotel.

Akira Kurosawa still insists on filming in his 80s. 1September 1998, Akira Kurosawa passed away at the age of 88. More than 35,000 people attended his memorial service.

During his 50-year film career, Kurosawa directed nearly 30 films and won more than 30 famous awards. His unique means of film expression, touching the theme of human emotions, fascinated western filmmakers and influenced a generation of western directors such as Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola.

(1) Death praise

On a sunny day, tourists come to a beautiful village, where there is a gurgling stream, flowers of various colors are blooming on both sides of the stream, and there is a small bridge connecting the two sides of the stream. Everything here looks so elegant and quiet. The villagers dressed in costumes sang and danced all the way, colorful and happy. Tourists in unknown so think it is a festival celebration, so they ask the old people near the waterwheel. The old man said, "No, it's a funeral. Are you surprised? In fact, funerals should be celebrated. When a person lives well and works hard all his life, he should be congratulated when he dies. " Stone tablets commemorating the dead are always filled with flowers dedicated to the dead.

This is the last paragraph of the film Dream directed by Akira Kurosawa at the age of 80, which shows his open-minded view of life and death: "A person lives well, works hard and dies after a hard life, which is worth celebrating."

1On September 6th, 998, eight years after Kurosawa wrote a festival hymn for death, at the age of 88, he really had his last experience in his life. When Japan and the whole world lamented that his departure made the film industry lose another master, Akira Kurosawa must have left with a smile.

In the 43rd year of Meiji (19 10), Akira Kurosawa was born in Iidi, Dajing-machi, Wuyuan Prefecture, Tokyo 1 150 (now near Tochii Iidi, Pinchuan Prefecture 18). He is his father Nozawa Yong (45 years old).

In fact, for death, Kurosawa is never strange.

When he was in the fourth grade of Blackpool Primary School, his favorite little sister, 16 years old, fell ill and went to another world like a whirlwind. In the movie "Dream", Akira Kurosawa once described with deep affection the joy of showing my puppet drinking sweet wine when he and his little sister celebrated the Puppet Festival. The little sister in his memory is too soft, with a crystal clear and pitifully fragile beauty. They turned off the lights and looked at the ladies-in-waiting on the five-story altar covered with scarlet blankets in the dim light room. They are lifelike and beautiful. Then my little sister suddenly ran to Taolin and disappeared. Kurosawa always remembers the name of Miss Sister's ring: Hiroshin, Taolin Town. On the day of my sister's funeral, Blackpool's family sat in the hall of the temple, listening to the monks chanting. Xiao Ming couldn't stop laughing when the chanting of wooden fish and gong reached its climax. He thought, little sister will be happy. This is really a different attitude.

The second death was the well-known Great Kanto Earthquake. It was June of Taisho 12 (1923), and this day was a heavy-hearted day for the playful middle school sophomore Kurosawa-the summer vacation was over and he had to go to school again. After attending the opening ceremony, Kurosawa wanted to buy books for his sister, but luckily the bookstore didn't open, so he went home distraught. It was cloudless in Wan Li that morning and sunny in autumn. But around 1 1, a gust of wind suddenly blew Xiaoming's weathervane off the roof. Xiaoming, who has nothing to do with the weather vane, stoned a Korean red-haired cow with his neighbor's children last night. Then there was a rumbling sound-an earthquake. Xiao Ming quickly took off his clogs and hugged the telephone poles around him. Everything on the ground became crazy: the wires were torn, all the tiles on the roof swayed from side to side like chaff and kept falling, and the roof frame was exposed to a foggy dust. Xiaoming grasped the telephone pole tightly and shook violently. He became very calm when he was too scared. He looked at the wooden skeleton of the house that had not collapsed, and even thought about the relationship between the earthquake and the Japanese house structure. However, the next moment he thought of his relatives and ran home in despair. Half the tiles on his upstairs fell off, and all the wooden railings in the hall fell down? Quot ah, they are all dead. "Xiao Ming stood in the yard and looked at this piece of rubble, and his heart was puzzling. After a while, I thought all my dead relatives were safe and well dressed, and my brother also called Xiaoming barefoot and indecent. It seems that Xiao Ming is the only one in the whole family who panicked. The Great Kanto Earthquake shocked Kurosawa's heart with the extraordinary power of nature, and also made him feel fear. After the earthquake, he traveled on foot under the leadership of his brother and watched the tragic scene after the earthquake and fire. In my memory, it was a terrible hike. He has seen people die in various poses. When the body and the rubble can't be separated, Xiao Ming's mood is inexplicably calm. This became an expedition to near death and conquer terror. As a teenager, Kurosawa had a unique understanding of life and death.

The most profound death shock was his brother Bingwu's suicide. Bingwu was an outstanding genius since childhood, and he was the idol of Kurosawa's childhood and adolescence. When he graduated from primary school, he was unexpectedly not admitted to his middle school, so he was addicted to literature and let the world-weary philosophy occupy his clever mind. He praised Russian writer Achba's The Last Line as the highest level literary work in the world. Influenced by the nihilistic spirit of the protagonist Na Umov that "all efforts in life are nothing more than dancing on the grave", he often takes this sentence as a mantra: "I died before I was 30 years old, and people can only become ugly after 30 years old." At the age of 27, as a film critic, he lost his job because of the appearance of talking movies. That year, the igloo committed suicide in a wing of Izu Hot Spring Hotel. Looking at his bleeding brother, Akira Kurosawa did not move. For him, this is an irreplaceable and always respectable brother.

Many years later, 197 1, Kurosawa, 6 1, tried to commit suicide because of box office failure and creative pursuit. Of course, he's not dead. So, he quickly stood up again, and then made many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, and really died.

(2) The Gate of Glory

Kurosawa once said, "Subtract movies from me, and those numbers will probably become zero."

In fact, Kurosawa first entered the film industry only for employment. 1928 After graduating from junior high school, Kurosawa was keen on painting, determined to become a painter, and even participated in national art exhibitions. But it was difficult to be a painter at that time, and Kurosawa was not confident about it. Because of his brother Bingwu's sudden suicide, Kurosawa had to take the responsibility of the eldest son quickly, so he looked around for a job with anxiety about employment. One day in the eleventh year of Showa (1936), Akira Kurosawa saw an advertisement in the newspaper for an assistant director in P.C.L Film Studio (predecessor of Dongbao Film Company), and Akira Kurosawa, who knew nothing about the Japanese film industry, entered the film industry.

The experience of just entering the studio as an assistant director was not satisfactory, so that Akira Kurosawa wanted to leave. However, the appearance of director Kajir? Yamamoto completely changed Kurosawa's fate, because he met the best teacher in his life. "the wind from the top of the mountain finally blew into my face ... in front of the top of the mountain, there is a vast world and a straight road." Looking at Mr. Yamamoto's calmness in front of the camera, Akira Kurosawa knew that he had found the job he really wanted to do. In Yamamoto's crew, Akira Kurosawa got real training, and he was familiar with all the work of various departments in the film production process. He was promoted from the third deputy director to the first deputy director, and qualified as a B-level director. Mr. Yamamoto also warned him that if he wants to be a director, he must learn to write plays first. This made Akira Kurosawa a playwright before becoming a director. The German in the Dharma Temple was published in the Film Review, which was well received, while Silence and Snow was awarded by the Intelligence Bureau. Of course, due to the repeated failure of the plan to promote the director, Kurosawa wrote most of his plays in order to raise money and drink with the payment.

1943, Kurosawa, a senior assistant director with many years of experience and a well-known young playwright who has written more than a dozen plays, finally took the first step as a director. The filming of the first film "Kojiro" has already started, and Akira Kurosawa has made great efforts to make this work more interesting and satisfying. Akira Kurosawa established himself as a director in the Japanese film industry when the Japanese audience who lacked entertainment during the war poured into the cinema enthusiastically. At that time, it was World War II, Japanese militarism prevailed, and film creation was also directly under the jurisdiction of the military department, and directors did not have creative freedom. Kurosawa wrote shamefully in his autobiography: "During the war, I had no resistance to militarism. It's a pity ... I don't have the courage to resist, just cater to or escape appropriately. " 1944 the most beautiful movie is a movie about the working life of women standing up and inspiring their fighting spirit in factories during the war. Aside from the political purpose of the film, this work is quite successful in art, whether it is the photography angle, composition or documentary shooting method. This is also Kurosawa's favorite sketch movie. Of course, The Most Beautiful also brought Kurosawa's lifelong companion, Yoko Yakuko.

195 1 September, just as Kurosawa was worried about the double fiasco of his new film "Idiot" at the box office and film reviews, there was good news that Rashomon won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. This is the first time that the Western Film Festival awarded the first prize to Asian directors (the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was awarded to Rashomon the following year), thus opening the golden age of Japanese films. Although the Japanese critics say that the two awards are only the result of the judges' curiosity about the exotic atmosphere of the East, in fact, Rashomon fully shows Kurosawa's exquisite directing skills and his depth of exploration into the human heart. Quot people always beautify themselves. " In addition, the film's film skills such as action shots and light and shadow processing were unparalleled at that time. It is no wonder that after many years, Akira Kurosawa is still worried about Japanese critics: "Why do Japanese people have no confidence in the existence of Japan? Why do you respect foreign things so much and despise Japanese things so much? "

In 10 year after Rashomon won the prize, Akira Kurosawa won the grand prize in major film festivals and became a man of the hour in the international film industry. His films have expanded the means of film expression, touched the secrets of human emotions, fascinated western filmmakers and even influenced a generation of western directors such as Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola. Kurosawa is a well-known perfectionist. His firm personality, rigorous work style and bad temper are all talked about and praised by people.

The late 1960s to the mid-1970s was the low point of Kurosawa's creation. 197 1 year, he tried to commit suicide because of box office failure and creative pursuit. However, he quickly stood up again. He once described himself as an eel and said, "The film writer, this eel, saw that the river that raised him was polluted and the water was dry, so he couldn't lay eggs in such a place." As a result, he had to travel abroad more than once. For example, he laid eggs on the Soviet River in 1975, which was Delsut Uzara, which won the gold medal in Moscow Film Festival and the Oscar for best foreign language film. The impact of TV and Hollywood on Japanese films, as well as the rigidity of Japanese film production mechanism and the consequent brain drain, have made Japanese films decline in an all-round way, which is really a sad thing for Kurosawa.

In his later years, Kurosawa and his son Hisao Kurosawa founded Kurosawa Film Company. 199 1 year, he also filmed rhapsody in august, with the theme of nuclear radiation and ecological environment. At the age of 85, Akira Kurosawa was still ambitious to create a blockbuster costume, but he failed because of an accident.

Kurosawa is the yardstick of oriental film directors. His persistent humanitarianism, strong concern for human destiny and excavation of human nature will be passed down forever with his colorful films. For Kurosawa, movies are both a reality and an ideal. It is a tool to express feelings and examine the soul, and it is also a glorious door to the other side.