1910
March 23-- Akira Kurosawa was born as the youngest child of four
brothers and four sisters in Ohi-machi, Tokyo.
1916
Apr.-- Kindergarten (Morimura-gakuen-fuzoku youchien) in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
1917
Apr.-- Elementary school (Morimura-gakuen-fuzoku shougakkou) in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
1923
Apr. --Junior high school (Keika-Gakuen Chugaku).
1928
Sep. -- His painting 'Seibutsu' was accepted for the Nika Exhibition.
1936
Apr. -- He was recruited for the assistant director of PCL. He joined as the third assistant director to Shigeo Yano's Shojohanazono, Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Enoken no Senmanchoja I & II and Osamu Fushimizu's Tokyo Rhapsody.
1937
He joined as the third assistant director to Hidesuke Takizawa's Sengoku Guntou Den I & II, Mikio Naruse's Nadare and Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Ryonin no Teisou I & II, Nihon Josei Dokuhon I, and Enoken no Chatkiri-Kinta I&II.
Sep. -- PCL and three companies were combined by Toho.
He joined as a chief assistant director to Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Utsukushiki Taka.
1938
He joined as a chief assistant director to Hidesuke Takizawa's Chinetsu, Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Tojuro no koi, Tsuzurikata Kyoushitsu and Enoken no Bikkuri Jinsei.
1939
He joined as a chief assistant director to Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Enoken no Gatchiri Jidai, Chushingura and Nonki Yokocho.
Oct. -- Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Uma cranked in.
1940
He joined as a chief assistant director to Yoshijiro Yamamoto's Roppa no Shinkonryokou, Enoken no Zangiri Kinta and Songoku I&II.
He wrote the scenario "Mizuno Jurozaemon".
1943
Mar. 25 -- His first directed movie Sugata Sanshiro was released.
1944
Apr. 13 -- The Most Beautiful was released.
1945
May 3 -- Sanshiro Sugata Part II was released.
May 21 -- He married with Kayo Kato who was main actress in The Most Beautiful.
Dec. 20 -- His first son Hisao was born.
GHQ prohibited to release The Men Who Tread on The Tigers Tail.
1946
May 2 -- Asu wo Tsukuru Hitobito was released. He directed this with Yoshijiro Yamamoto and Hideo Sekikawa, but he removed this from
his filmography by himself because he needed to change a lot of scenes to make a concession to the labor union.
Oct. 29 -- No Regrets for Our Youth was released.
1947
July 1 ---One Wonderful Sunday was released.
1948
Feb. 8 -- His father died.
Apr. 27 -- Drunken Angel was released.
1949
Mar. 13 -- The Quiet Duel was released.
Oct. 17 -- Stray Dog was released.
1950
Apr. 30 -- Scandal was released.
Aug. 26 -- Rashomon was released.
1951
May 23 -- The Idiot was released.
Sep. 10 -- Rashomon won the Grand Prix at Venice.
Dec. 26 -- Rashomon was released in New York.
1952
Jan -- He moved to Komae, Tokyo.
Mar. 20 -- Rashomon got the Academy Foreign Movie Award.
Apr. 24 -- The men Who Tread on The Tigers Tail was released.
Oct. 9 -- Ikiru was released.
Nov. 4 -- His mother died.
1954
Apr. 26 -- Seven Samurai was released.
Apr. 29 -- His eldest daughter Kazuko was born.
June -- Ikiru won the Silver Bear prize at Berlin.
Sep. -- Seven Samurai won the Silver Lion Prize at Venice.
1955
Oct. 15 -- Fumio Hayasaka (41) died.
Nov. 22 -- Record of a Living Being was released.
1957
Jan. 15 -- Throne of Blood was released.
Sep. 17 -- The Lower Depths was released.
Oct. -- He was invited to the 1st London Movie Festival.
1958
Dec. 28 -- The Hidden Fortress was released.
1959
Apr. -- He established Kurosawa Productions.
1960
Aug. -- He made a tour to Europe and visited Rome Olympic to make a preliminary inspection of the Tokyo Olympic film that he was to direct.
Sep. 4 -- The Bad Sleep Well was released.
1961
Apr. 25 -- Yojinbo was released.
1962
Jan. 1 -- Sanjuro was released.
Sep. -- He moved to Matsubara Ketagaya-ku Tokyo.
1963
Mar. 1 -- High and Low was released.
1965
Jan. -- He won the Asahi Culture Award.
Apr. 3 -- Red Beard was released.
1966
June -- Kurosawa Pro. and Abco Embassy Pro. announced to produce Runaway Train. But, this plan was canceled after.
It was detected that A Fistful of Dollars was the crib of Yojinbo.
1967
Apr. 28 -- 20 Century Fox and Kurosawa Pro. announced to produce Tora Tora Tora!.
1968
The preparations of producing Tora Tora Tora! were going far from smoothly.
Dec. -- Tora Tora Tora! cranked in at Toei Movie Studio in Kyoto, but it was suspended soon.
1969
Jan. -- Kurosawa Pro. gave up to continue to make Tora Tora Tora!.
July -- 'Yonki no Kai'(the group of four horses) was organized by Keisuke Kinoshita, Kon Ichikawa, Masaki Kobayashi and Akira Kurosawa.
1970
Oct. 31 -- His first full colored movie Dodes'ka-den was released.
1971
Jan. -- He was decorated by the President Tito in Yugoslavia.
Aug. 31 -- TV document program Uma no Uta (NTV) that was supervised by Kurosawa was on air.
Dec. 22 -- He attempted to commit suicide.
1972
Oct. -- He moved to EbisuNishi Shibuya-ku Tokyo.
1973
Mar. 14 -- He signed the written agreement of Dersu Uzala.
Sep. -- Stray Dog was remade by Higashi Morizaki, Shochiku.
1974
Sep. 21 -- His master Yoshijiro Yamamoto died (72yrs old).
1975
Aug. 2 -- Dersu Uzala was released.
Sep. -- Dersu Uzala was released in the Soviet Union, and won the gold prize at Moscow.
1976
Mar. 29 -- Dersu Uzala won the Academy Award for foreign movies.
1978
Mar. -- His autobiography ,'Gama no Abura', started to be published serially in Shukan-Yomiuri.
1979
Nov. -- His book 'Kagemusha' (Scenario and drawing) was published.
1980
Apri. 26 -- Kagemusha was released.
May 23 -- Kagemusha won the Grand Prix at Cannes.
1982
Feb. 11 -- Takashi Shimura died (76yrs old).
Sep. -- Rashomon was selected as the Lion of Lions at Venice.
1983
Nov. 1 -- Kurosawa Film Studio was built at Midori-ku Yokohama.
1985
Feb. 1 -- His wife Kayo died (63yrs old).
June 1 -- Ran was released.
Dec. -- AK : portrait of Akira Kurosawa directed by Chris Marker was released.
1986
Mar. 24 -- Ran was nominated to four sections of the Academy Award (Emi Wada got the costume design award). He acted as a presenter
with Billy Wilder and John Huston.
Mar. 27 -- He won the first Akira Kurosawa Prize at the San Francisco movie Festival.
Jun. -- Runaway Train released.
1990
Mar. 26 -- He won the Academy Special Honorary Award.
May 25 -- Dreams was released in Japan.
1991
May 25 -- Rhapsody in August was released.
1993
Feb. 28 -- Inoshiro Honda died (81yrs old). He was famous as the director of Godzilla(1954). He was a chief assistant director of Stray Dog. He was a good friend of Kurosawa and supported Kagemusha, Ran, Dreams and Rhapsody in August.
Apr. -- Toho started to release Kurosawa's 31 movies in Toho on Laserdisc and Video.
Apr. 17 -- No, Not yet was released.
1997
Apr. 2 -- Tomoyuki Tanaka died (86yrs old). He was one of most famous producer in Japan. He produced some Kurosawa works. He was also famous as the producer of the series of Godzilla. The films he produced was over 200.
Dec. 24 -- Toshiro Mifune died (77yrs old).
1998
Sep. 6 -- Kurosawa died.
