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
September
26 September
BFI IMAX, London
27 September
Glasgow Film Theatre
30 September
Light Cinema Addlestone
Light Cinema Banbury
Light Cinema Bradford
Light Cinema Bolton
Light Cinema Cambridge
Light Cinema New Brighton
Light Cinema Redhill
Light Cinema Sheffield
Light Cinema Sittingbourne
Light Cinema Stockport
Light Cinema Thetford
Light Cinema Walsall
Light Cinema Wisbech
October
1 October
Olympic Studios, Barnes
2 October
Broadway, Nottingham
3 October
Broadway Letchworth
6 October
Garden Cinema, London
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
15 November
Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
25 November
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
Brunswick Moviebowl, Derry
The Cameo, Edinburgh
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
December
12 December
An Lanntair, Stornoway
13 December
Eden Court, Inverness
27 December
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
January
27 January
The Highland Cinema