Akira Kurosawa

About me:

I'm a film maker from Japan. I've made like 30 odd movies. I also do alot of art work, and I enjoy golfing. Umm...I basically created Samurai Westerns and Japanese action flicks. I'm sorta the biggest influence to film making ever. Oh, even though I'm Japanese, most of the biggest name in American film making studied under me.

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I personally think that people have a hard time being honest with themselves, and that's what I try to bring out in film. Some people cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. My script "Rashomon" portrays such human beings - the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave - even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unscrolled and displayed by the ego

People often ask me, "What was this movie about?" and I respond, "If it would be so easy as to summerize it in a sentence, I wouldn't have made a movie, I just would have written it down and held it in the air."

That's what I try to do, bring out the raw emotions and aspects of life. Just check out one of my movies, and stop reading this now.