Anno 1946, Kurosawa cum Hideo Sekigawa et Kajiro Yamamoto pelliculam Asu o tsukuru hitobito (Qui Crastinum Diem Faciunt) direxit. Ipse deinde hanc pelliculam repudiavit, et in numero eius pellicularum saepe inter eius pelliculas non refertur. Vide Galbraith, pp. 65–67, et Kurosawae pagina IMDb.
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