RashōmonAkira Kurosawa
Japan · 1950 Innovative photography and skilled direction create a brilliant illustration of the elusiveness of objective truth in this samurai murder mystery. Kurosawa's international breakthrough. “Pure cinema… there's almost no need for words” – Judy Bloch, PFA Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
IkiruAkira Kurosawa
Japan · 1952 A favourite of Steven Spielberg, this deeply affecting, humanist masterpiece stars Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura as an ordinary civil servant who discovers what it means to live. “Piercing emotion and poetry… seems to take x-rays of the human spirit” – New Yorker Screening times, reviews and trailer >> |
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