Event Details
Based on Inside a Pot by distinguished female novelist Kiyoko Murata, Kurosawa’s penultimate film centers on widow Kane (Sachiko Murase), whose husband was killed by the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans on Nagasaki. Now a grandmother, Kane welcomes her grandchildren to her rural home, where the impact of her decades of silence becomes impossible to ignore.
“Making an antiwar picture isn’t a matter of re-creating battle scenes,” Kurosawa said in 1991. The director instead relies on the sweltering summer heat and softly spoken observances to convey the impacts of generational trauma caused by wartime tragedies. American actor Richard Gere, who appears as one of Kane’s nephews, agreed to make the picture on the modest condition that his name was not used to... sell the film.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1991 | 98 min | Japan | Color | Japanese with English subtitles | Rated PG | 35mm
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Akira Kurosawa
WITH: Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Otakara
Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.