Akira Kurosawa

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5 total works indexed

1. Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode

   · 1972 · cited 31,672x

2. Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds

   · 1995 · cited 12,057x

3. The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

   · 2000 · cited 11,603x

4. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,737x

5. Pathogen Recognition and Innate Immunity

   · 2006 · cited 9,740x

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Quotes

• “In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
• “I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.”
• “A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.”
• “Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”
• “Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”

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Height

182

Number of children

2

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