Akira Kurosawa's movies have influenced many Hollywood films, from Spike Lee's recent Highest 2 Lowest to the classic ...

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The wonder of Akira Kurosawa’s 50-year career is that it was at once remarkably varied and satisfyingly coherent. Kurosawa (1910-98) elevated the samurai genre and reinvented action filmmaking.