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Hiromichi Horikawa

Hiromichi Horikawa

ActorDirectorWriterDirecting Dec 28 (died age 95) Kyoto Prefecture, Japan 1951–2000 (49 year career)
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Biography

Hiromichi Horikawa (28 November 1916 – 5 September 2012) was a Japanese director and assistant director. Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954), Horikawa never achieved his mentor’s fame. Kurosawa himself scripted his directorial debut, Tomorrow I’ll Be a Fire-Tree (1955), about an adolescent and the first three women in his life. A concern with youthful experience was also visible in Horikawa’s second and third films, Summer in Eclipse (195…

Known For

Seven Samurai
Film

Seven Samurai

Assistant Director
Ikiru
Film

Ikiru

Assistant Director
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Film

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Director
The Last Judgment
Film

The Last Judgment

Director
Brand of Evil
Film

Brand of Evil

Director
The Lost Alibi
Film

The Lost Alibi

Director
Kurosawa
Film

Kurosawa

Self
The Alaska Story
Film

The Alaska Story

Director

Filmography

Acting (1)