Known as one of the "four great masters" of Japanese movies, what is his greatness?

Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu are known as the "Four Masters" of Japanese films. From 1943, the first film "Kojiro", Kurosawa directed a total of 30 films. With films such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Shadow Samurai, Three Villains in The Dark Castle and Delsout Uzara, Kurosawa won the Golden Lion and Silver Lion Awards at Venice Film Festival, the Best Foreign Language Film Award at Oscar, the Silver Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival and the Palme d 'Or Award at Cannes Film Festival.

1990, Akira Kurosawa became the first Asian filmmaker to win the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. 1999 was named "the most influential person in Asia in the 20th century" by Time magazine.

Kurosawa is the youngest child in the family, with three brothers and four sisters. Because he loved to cry when he was a child, he was called "crispy candy". The reason was that a song called "My Crispy Candy" was so embarrassing. He never cries from morning till night. "

When I was a child, Akira Kurosawa was a poor guy who was bullied by his classmates because his intellectual development was slower than that of his peers. His youngest brother not only took care of him a lot when he was growing up, but also influenced his view of movies.

Kurosawa originally wanted to be a painter, but by mistake he became the deputy director of P.C.L (the predecessor of Dongbao) Film Company. Director Kajir? Yamamoto is Kurosawa's most respected predecessor, and he regards him as a lifelong admiration for Dashan.

Most of Kurosawa's works focus on social issues. When the social spirit and national culture are integrated into the film, the in-depth analysis of human nature has a profound cultural heritage and a calm visual presentation. His own accomplishments in art, music, drama and literature have given him a solid foundation as a film creator.

Kurosawa loves his works deeply and devoted a lot of effort to each character. He thinks that movies will reflect the true nature of directors, so he always introspects.

Kurosawa is rigorous and bold in his creative process. He once boldly surrounded him with a newcomer, Mifune Mifune, and wrote a script with shredded manuscript paper. When filming Rashomon, he visited Kyoto and Gu Men in Nara on foot every day to inspect various documents and relics about Rashomon.

Almost all the scenes in Rashomon were completed in the forest. In order to solve the problem of light and shadow, Kurosawa and his shooting team began to cut down trees when the sun was not good, and their serious creative spirit even touched the monks in the nearby temples.

Moreover, in order to make better use of light and shadow, Kurosawa boldly tried the way of "frontal shooting", which was still taboo at that time. Later, at the Venice Film Festival, this shot was called "the first time the camera entered the forest".

Kurosawa's creative attitude is not only in Rashomon, but runs through his whole creative career. He takes the camera as a tool to show the society and expose human nature, and also assumes his social responsibility in the mode of film, which is also his greatest place.