During the '60s, Akira Kurasawa had two of his Samauri films adapted into Westerns. His masterpiece Seven Samauri became the Magnificent Seven with Steve McQuee
Known for her vivid, neon photography of flowers, landscapes and empowered women, Mika Ninagawa is one of Japan’s most renowned contemporary photographers and film directors. Her original drama directorial on Netflix, ”Followers,” aired internationally in more than 190 countries in 2020. Born in 1972, she is the child of famous theater director Yukio Ninagawa and actress Tomoko Mayama. Eager to find her own identity and place in the world, Ninagawa was one of the pioneers of the
Onnanoko Shashin movement, the “Girly Photo” movement in the late 1990s, and her passion for photography came to her naturally. “I wanted to become a person who can express something as soon as possible,” she says in an interview with Phillips. Ninagawa is never afraid to test her limits as a photographer, art commissioner, film director and single mother.