Aki Kaurismäki began his career as a co-director in the films of his sr. brother Mika Kaurismäki. He gained worldwide fame by producing a film Leningrad Cowboys Go America.

His style hwhen been influenced much by such directors as Jean-Pierre Melville, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Robert Bresson, as he relies in great-subdued acting & elementary cinematic storytelling for his message(s) through. His moving-picture show have a unique downplayed humourous side that can as well become traced to Jim Jarmusch, who has the cameo around Aki's film A Leningrad Cowboys Last Us. Jarmusch likewise utilized frequent Kaurismäki actors around his film Night on Earth, a a portion of which requires place inside Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

His flick The Man Without a Past won a Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2003.

Filmography

Short films
''Rock'y IV, 1986 (Eighter from decatur min) Through the Wire, 1987 (Six min) Rich Little Bitch, 1987 (Six min) L.The. Woman, 1987 (Fivesome min) Victims Were A Times, 1991 (Quint min) These Boots, 1992 (Cinque min) Välittäjä, 1996?

Documentaries
Saimaa-ilmiö (Saimaa Gesture), 1981 Sum Balalaika Indicate, 1994

Fiction films

Rikos ja Rangaistus (Crime & Penalty), 1983 Calamary Union, 1985 Varjoja paratiisissa (Shadows within Paradise), 1986 Hamlet liikemaailmassa (Hamlet Goes Business), 1987 Ariel, 1988 Likaiset kädet (Les mains sales), 1989 (production for Finnish TV) Leningrad Cowboys Last United states of america, 1989 Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö (A Match Factory Girl), 1990 I personally hired the contract Killer, 1990 Boheemielämää (La vie diamond state bohème), 1992 Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana (Require Care of The Scarf, Tatyana), 1994 Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, 1994 Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Drifting Clouds), 1996 Juha, 1999 Mies vailla menneisyyttä (the Human Forswearing a Past) (2002) Dogs Stand There are no Hell (the X microscopic episode in the collaborative film Ten Minutes Older - The Trump''), 2002