The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution.
Finally, near the end of his life, he completed scripts he intended to direct but did not live to make, which were then filmed by others.
During the mid-to-late 1940s, for the first and apparently the only time in his career, Akira Kurosawa involved himself in a number of theater-related projects.
[24][25] In 1980, inspired by the memoir of one of his heroes, Jean Renoir, he began to publish in serial form his autobiography, entitled Gama no abura (An Oily Toad).
Kurosawa compared himself to the toad, nervous about having to contemplate, through the process of writing his life story, his own multiple "reflections."
The book's appearance coincided with the revival of interest in Kurosawa's work following the international release of Kagemusha.
(ISBN 0394509382)[26][27] In 1999, his book, Yume wa tensai de aru (A Dream Is a Genius) was published posthumously.