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Which film marked Kurosawa Akira’s debut as a feature-film director?
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Kurosawa Akira, 1961.
Kurosawa Akira’s debut as a feature-film director was the 1943 movie Sanshiro Sugata, which he directed from his own scenario. The film, which depicts the story of Japanese judo masters during the 1880s, achieved significant popular success.1