Event Details
Kurosawa takes a picaresque approach in his adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s play of the same name from 1902, with a twist of humor and joy in underlying despair—the premise of the work. Set in the late Edo period, the film surveys the lives of a married couple and their tenants who are barely scraping by in a run-down tenement. Kurosawa uses the limited space of the tenement to create an intimate atmosphere for the ensemble to perform in with density that, in turn, resembles the anguish that each character carries within them.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1957 | 125 min. | Japan | Black-and-White | Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
WRITTEN BY: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni.
WITH: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura