Event Details
A pair of hapless peasants—Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matashichi (Kamatari Fujiwara)—uproot their lives to enlist with the rising Yamana clan. But their witless greed keeps landing them in unfortunate circumstances. Their ingenious plan to escape into a neighboring state draws the attention of General Rokurota Makabe (Toshiro Mifune). Hiding in disguise with Princess Yuki (Misa Uehara) of the fallen Akizuki clan, Makabe enlists the help of Tahei and Matashichi for passage into Hayakawa. This 16th-century period adventure of a princess evading capture from enemy forces served as inspiration for George Lucas’s space epic, Star Wars (1977).
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1958 | 126 min. | Japan | Black-and-White | Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
WRITTEN BY: Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa
WITH: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara