5 Nominations

Akira Kurosawa (born in Tokyo, Japan, March 23, 1910, died September 6, 1998) is the master filmmaker who directed Japanese films like Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1963). Sixteen of his movies starred Toshiro Mifune, from Drunken Angel (1948) to Red Beard (1965). Later he directed Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior, 1980), Ran (1985), Dreams (1990) with Martin Scorsese playing Vincent Van Gogh, Rhapsody in August (1991).
Read Kurosawa's Autobiography: Something Like An Autobiography", by Jean-Paul Chaillet.
Lee en español Kurosawa: Autobiografia (o algo parecido), por Jean-Paul Chaillet y Paz Mata.
Golden Globe Awards
Awards Database1981 Nominee

1981 Nominee
Best Picture - Non-English Language (formerly Foreign Language)
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)