Yoshirō Muraki
Born: 1924-08-15 in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died: 2009-10-26
Known For: Art
Biography
Yoshirō Muraki was a Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work in Yojimbo (1961). He is most well known for his collaborations with director Akira Kurosawa, having done work on all of Kurosawa's films from Record of a Living Being (1955) onward, with the exception of Dersu Uzala (1975).
Filmography
2002
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard' as Self
- Letter from the Mountain ... (Production Design)
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' as Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' as Self
2000
- After the Rain ... (Production Design)
1994
- 47 Ronin ... (Production Design)
1993
- Madadayo ... (Production Design)
- Rainbow Bridge ... (Production Design)
1991
- Rhapsody in August ... (Production Design)
1990
- Dreams ... (Production Design)
1988
- Wuthering Heights ... (Art Direction)
- Oración ... (Art Direction)
1986
- Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth ... (Art Direction)
1983
- Choji Snack Bar ... (Art Direction)
- The Yoshida School ... (Production Design)
1982
- The Longest Tunnel ... (Set Designer)
- Lake of Illusions ... (Production Design)
1981
- The Last Days of Planet Earth ... (Production Design)
1980
- Kagemusha ... (Art Direction)
1978
- Monument to Holy Service ... (Production Design)
1977
- The Gate of Youth Part 2 ... (Art Direction)
- High Seas Hijack ... (Art Direction)
1976
- Love and Separation in Sri Lanka ... (Production Design)
1975
- Conflagration ... (Production Design)
- Tidal Wave ... (Art Direction)
1974
- Prophecies of Nostradamus ... (Production Design)
1973
- Submersion of Japan ... (Production Design)
1972
- Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy ... (Production Design)
1971
- The Battle of Okinawa ... (Production Design)
- Love Forsaken ... (Art Direction)
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! ... (Art Direction)
1969
- Bullet Wound ... (Art Direction)
1967
- Samurai Rebellion ... (Production Design)
1966
- Look Up, Noble One ... (Production Design)
- More Than 10,000 Women But... ... (Art Direction)
- 3 Raccoon Dogs ... (Art Direction)
1965
- Red Beard ... (Production Design)
- Beast Alley ... (Art Direction)
1963
- High and Low ... (Production Design)
- Legacy of the 500,000 ... (Production Design)
1962
- Sanjuro ... (Production Design)
1961
- Yojimbo ... (Production Design)
- Toilet Manager ... (Art Direction)
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well ... (Production Design)
- The Masterless 47 ... (Production Design)
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking ... (Art Direction)
- Man Against Man ... (Art Direction)
1959
- I Want to Be a Shellfish ... (Production Design)
- Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers ... (Production Designer)
- 3 Dolls in College ... (Art Direction)
- Someday I'll Know ... (Production Design)
1958
- The Hidden Fortress ... (Production Design)
- The Third President ... (Production Design)
- Assistant President ... (Art Direction)
1957
- Throne of Blood ... (Costume Design)
- The Lower Depths ... (Production Design)
- Price of Beauty ... (Art Direction)
1956
- Blue Buds ... (Art Direction)
- Rainy Night Duel ... (Production Design)
1955
- I Live in Fear ... (Production Design)
- All is Well 2 ... (Production Design)
- All is Well ... (Production Design)
1954
- Seven Samurai ... (Assistant Art Director)
- The Black Fury ... (Production Design)
1949
- Stray Dog ... (Assistant Director)