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Akira Kurosawa, a biography
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Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo. His father was a former army officer who became an athletic instructor. At 17 Kurosawa enrolled at an art school and then worked as a commercial artist. In 1936 he got a job as an assistant and scriptwriter to director at Photo Chemical Laboratories, which became better known as Toho Studios (the production company also behind Godzilla, among other films). By 1941 he was writing scripts and directing whole sequences.
The first film he fully directed was Sanshiro Sugata, a tale of a student of judo, who must defend himself against the disciples of the jujitsu dojo. After a few more films, he finally earned recognition in Japan for Drunken Angel, about a yakuza (Japanese gangster) trying to reform. The
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