1910 - 1998
Akira Kurosawa (Japanese: 黒澤 明, Hepburn: Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Kurosawa has received more than 6,034,492 page views. His biography is available in 141 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 137 in 2019). Akira Kurosawa is the 4th most popular film director (up from 6th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Film Director.
Akira Kurosawa is most famous for his samurai films.
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Among film directors, Akira Kurosawa ranks 4 out of 1,581. Before him are Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, and Martin Scorsese. After him are Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, Woody Allen, Ridley Scott, Sergei Eisenstein, and Roman Polanski.
1946 - Present
HPI: 83.80
Rank: 1
1899 - 1980
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 3
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 5
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 6
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 7
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 9
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 11
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1910, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him is Mother Teresa. After him are Jacques Cousteau, Robert K. Merton, Giuseppe Meazza, Irena Sendler, Ingrid of Sweden, Gloria Stuart, Konrad Zuse, Jean Genet, Paulette Goddard, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1998, Akira Kurosawa ranks 1. After him are Pol Pot, Frank Sinatra, Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Carlos Castaneda, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Octavio Paz, and Alan Shepard.
1910 - 1997
HPI: 80.90
Rank: 1
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 2
1910 - 1997
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 3
1910 - 2003
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 4
1910 - 1979
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 5
1910 - 2008
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 6
1910 - 2000
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 7
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 8
1910 - 1995
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 9
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 10
1910 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 11
1910 - 1953
HPI: 67.92
Rank: 12
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 1
1925 - 1998
HPI: 78.53
Rank: 2
1915 - 1998
HPI: 76.46
Rank: 3
1913 - 1998
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 4
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 5
1911 - 1998
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 6
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 7
1925 - 1998
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 8
1924 - 1998
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 9
1907 - 1998
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 10
1914 - 1998
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1923 - 1998
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Akira Kurosawa ranks 4 out of 6,048. Before him are Hirohito (1901), Hokusai (1760), and Akihito (1933). After him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949).
1901 - 1989
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 1
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 2
1933 - Present
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 3
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 5
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 6
1534 - 1582
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 7
1852 - 1912
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 8
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 9
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 10
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 12
Among film directors born in Japan, Akira Kurosawa ranks 1. After him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Isao Takahata (1935), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Shohei Imamura (1926), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Ishirō Honda (1911).
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 1
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 3
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 4
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 5
1898 - 1956
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 6
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 7
1916 - 1996
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 8
1926 - 2006
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 9
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 10
1920 - 1989
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 11
1911 - 1993
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 12