Director

Akira Kurosawa

29 prints

Kurosawa spent the first half of his career mastering black and white before pivoting to color with the force of someone who had been planning it for decades. Ran's armies dressed in primary blocks of yellow, red, and blue turn medieval warfare into something closer to abstract painting. Kagemusha bathes its final battle in blood-orange light. Color arrived late in his work but became its most stunning chapter.