Rice farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since. Ranked at number 20 in Sight & Sound’s 2022 Greatest Films of All Time critics’ poll, Akira Kurosawa followed the breakthrough international acclaim for Rashomon (1950) and Ikiru (1952) with this three-and-a-half-hour jidaigeki (period drama) set during Japan’s turbulent 16th century.
Credits
Japan 1954
4K Restoration
200min
Dir Akira Kurosawa
With Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi
Venues
October
1 October
Olympic Studios, Barnes
2 October
Broadway, Nottingham
3 October
Broadway Letchworth
6 October
Garden Cinema, London
11 October
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
13 October
Riverside Studios, London
20 October
Electric Picture House Wotton
November
3 November
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
6 November
The Prince Charles Cinema
13 November
DCA Dundee
15 November
Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
23 November
Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
24 November
JW3, London
25 November
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
Brunswick Moviebowl, Derry
The Cameo, Edinburgh
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
28 November
Nova Cinema, Woking
December
12 December
An Lanntair, Stornoway
13 December
Eden Court, Inverness
27 December
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
January
27 January
The Highland Cinema