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Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Film Direction — historical

, Japan

The story

He shot rain like it owed him money and cut action so it finally made kinetic sense, teaching Hollywood how to move the camera by making films it spent decades remaking. Directed Seven Samurai and Rashomon, revolutionizing editing, weather as drama, and the visual grammar of action cinema.

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