Akira Sakuragi

Akira Sakuragi Born April 11, 1937 Wakayama, Japan Occupation Production designer First work Big Shots Die at Dawn (1961) Notable work Dreams (1990)

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Akira Sakuragi (櫻木 晶,   Sakuragi Akira) is a Japanese production designer who led the drama-unit art departments of Toho Pictures' kaiju films The Return of Godzilla and Rebirth of Mothra 3. Over the course of his career, he has accrued three Japanese Academy Award nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction: with Yoshiro Muraki for Akira Kurosawa's Dreams in 1990, and by himself for Kon Ichikawa's The 8-Tomb Village in 1996 and Mitsuo Kurotsuchi's The Samurai I Loved in 2005.

Selected filmography

Art assistant

• The Phoenix (1978) [uncredited]
• Pink Lady's Motion Picture (1978)
• Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984)

Production designer

• The Return of Godzilla (1984)
• Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998)

Gallery

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  Akira Sakuragi in 2015. Photo by Brett Homenick

External links

• Brett Homenick blog post on Akira Sakuragi and Kensho Yamashita (5/2/2015)

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