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But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a ...

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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WE...

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If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down...

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People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...

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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harde...

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Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence o...

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In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a tradit...

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Akira Kurosawa

Film director

Born: 1910-03-23

Died: 1998-09-06

Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) (23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.More