Talk:Akira Kurosawa

RE: mistake

The Author of this article credits Stray Dog as Kurosawa's first collaboration with Toshiro Mifune, when it is in fact Kurosawa's breakthrough film, Drunken Angel which first starred the then unknown Mifune in a Kurosawa film. Drunken Angel was released in April of 1948 while Stray Dog was released in October of 1949. By this point Kurosawa had already collaborated with mifune a second time in The Quiet Duel. I believe it is important to recognize the significance of Drunken Angel, It is a spectacular film that is tremendously important to Japanese cinema and it is also responsible for launching Mifune's career as a actor and also introducing Kurosawa as a truly talented and skilled director. Donald Ritchie notes the importance of this film in his book, The Films of Akira Kurosawa. "Japanese critics have agreed that this picture is to Japanese cinema as Paisa or Bicycle Thieves is to Italian, that it perfectly epitomizes a period, its hopes, its fears: that it marks the major 'breakthrough' of a major directorial talent who has finally 'realized' himself."(Ritchie, 47) I will try to formalize this correction within the actual article, but am new to Wikipedia, so if anyone reads this and notices that the error was left uncorrected than please assume I was unable to do so and please correct it if you are able.

• Any quoted material is taken from The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie.

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What does this mean? "In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Posthumously, he was named "Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited there as being among the five people who most prominently contributed to the improvement of Asia in the 20th century."Kdammers (talk) 04:44, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Images

Why do we have only one close image of Kurosawa-sensei from the 1950s and one very small image of him in a group picture? Why on earth are there images of people like Dostoyevski, Ed McBain, Steven Spielberg, and a bust of Ingmar Bergman, but no later pictures of the subject of the article? I'm not the best person for the job, but I think there should be at least one more recent image of the subject of the article; probably more.

*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 17:47, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

• It would be preferable to have more pictures of Kurosawa in this article, but that's all dependent on what photos Wikipedia can get permission to use, preferably those which are in the public domain or available under a Creative Commons license. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:07, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I found a better image of Kurosawa from 1960. It is slightly later in time period, and it shows the front of his face instead of the side. It is also the one used on the Japanese wikipedia article of his. Should we use it as the infobox image? Windywendi (talk) 22:07, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

i know i'm late to this discussion, but there seems to have been no update to the photos here. but it would be nice to see it! i personally don't understand why there's still a painting of dostoevsky, a photo of ed mcbain, and a bust of bergman. ok, he was inspired by dostoevsky, but this article would in totality be better served by containing more pictures of the man himself, particularly later in life, or even more illustrative photos, of locations in his films, examples that relate better to the content of the article, for if mcbain, why not shakespeare?--Plifal (talk) 05:29, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

space for personal life?

there's only minimal reference to his mental health, no reference to his smoking, no reference to his political beliefs. shouldn't something about that be rectified?--Plifal (talk) 04:36, 13 November 2024 (UTC)