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88 mins – Japan 1950 – Subtitles – Dir: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô and Masayuki Mori
Winner of the top prize at the 1952 Venice Film Festival and an Honorary Academy Award the same year, the film concerns a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) who witnesses a horrific series of events – an ambush, the rape of a noblewoman (Machiko Kyo) and the subsequent murder of her samurai husband (Mayasuki Mori) by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune). Yet, in the recounting of the incidents at the trial, differing versions come from all involved, thus raising questions about the reliability of subjective ‘truth’.
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Mon 6 Feb 6pm |
Tues 7 Feb 6pm |
Wed 8 Feb 6pm |
A chilling, utterly memorable dissection of the nature of human communication.
The Guardian
A chilling, utterly memorable dissection of the nature of human communication.
The Guardian
