Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder, and John Huston in The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986)

Akira Kurosawa and Toshirô Mifune in Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)

Akira Kurosawa and Catherine Cadou in Kurosawa's Way (2011)

Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola

Akira Kurosawa, Richard Gere, and Hisashi Igawa in Rhapsody in August (1991)

Akira Kurosawa and Theodoros Angelopoulos

Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg

Akira Kurosawa, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg at an event for The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990)