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Akira Kurosawa Filmography

Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai' became the model for the Hollywood western The Magnificent Seven

• Sugata Sanshiro (1943)

• The Most Beautiful (1944)

• Sanshiro Sugata 2 (1945)

• The Men Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (1945)

• No Regrets for our Youth (1946)

• One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

• Drunken Angel (1948)

• The Quiet Duel (1949)

• Stray Dog (1949)

• Scandal (1950)

• Rashomon (1950)

  Wins the 'Golden Lion' at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film in 1952.

• The Idiot (1951)

• Ikiru (1952)

• Seven Samurai (1954)

  Wins the 'Silver Lion' at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

• Record of a Living Being (1955)

• The Throne of Blood (1957)

• The Lower Depths (1957)

• The Hidden Fortress (1958)

• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

• Yojimbo (1961)

• Sanjuro (1962)

• High and Low (1963)

• Red Beard (1965)

• Dodeskaden (1970)

• Dersu Uzala (1975)

  Wins the Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival and his second Oscar for the Best Foreign Film in 1976.

• Kagemusha (1980)

  Co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

• Ran (1985)

  Wins special award for achievement in the Cannes Film Festival.

  America's National Society of Film Critics names it 'Best Picture of the Year'.

• Dreams (1990)

  Wins honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1990.

• Rhapsody in August (1991)

• Madadayo (1993)