Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa, whose monastic title is "Eimeiden Hōkuni, the Great Merciful Buddhist Master", is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is one of the most internationally influential directors of Japanese films and an important figure in the history of modern Japanese films. He is known as the "Shakespeare of the film industry". His career spans nearly sixty years, and his representative works include "Rashomon", "Seven Samurai", "The Last Day", "Heaven and Hell", "Desu Uzala", "Kagemusha", "Ran", etc.