Akira Kurosawa

Like Hitchcock, Akira had a style that was prevalent throughout his films. His movies all seemed to have a lessen to be gotten out of them. He also kept using the same actors over and over again. Many of his earlier films while before WW2 were fairly different from his later ones after the American occupation. He switched from making the empire look good to displaying a more analytic point of view of human nature. The later movies all seemed to show how the human condition could be very corrupt and how a true hero would be a person to stand up against that corruption even in the face of many trials. He puts in remnants of classic Japanese theater in his movies as well as the use of weather to dramatize scenes. His use of weather, though creative, can be somewhat overdone in some scenes. In many of his films the sky seems to end up being a focus and depending on the mood of the story the colors of the sky are different.