Great Performances (TV Series)
Kurosawa (2000)
Akira Kurosawa: Self
Quotes
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Akira Kurosawa : As a storyteller I have no secrets.
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Steven Spielberg : This year the Academy's Board of Governors have voted an Honorary Academy Award to a man who many of us believe is our greatest living filmmaker, and all of us know if one of the few true visionaries ever to work in our medium.
Narrator : In 1990, at the age of eighty the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was given an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Akira Kurosawa : [in Japanese] I am deeply honoured to receive such a prestigious award. Thank you.
