VIZ Cinema Celebrates Akira Kurosawa

 

During the month of June, the VIZ Cinema in San Francisco, CA will be celebrating the centennial birth of Japan’s most beloved film director, Akira Kurosawa.They will be doing this by screening four of his most acclaimed crime noir films - 'Drunken Angel', 'High And Low', 'The Bad Sleep Well' and 'Stray Dog'.

Drunken Angel
June 4th - 6th
In this powerful early noir film from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tubercular criminal who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a jaded physician.

High and Low
June 7th - 8th and also June 10th
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable in his role as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s impactful film that is a compelling race-against-time thriller and a penetrating portrait of contemporary Japanese post-war society.

The Bad Sleep Well
June 8th - 10th
Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect as a young executive hunts down his father’s killer.

Stray Dog
June 6th - 7th and also June 9th
When a pickpocket steals a rookie detective’s gun on a hot and crowded bus, the cop goes undercover in a desperate attempt to right the wrong. Kurosawa’s thrilling noir film probes the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.

For full details and to book tickets, check out the official website.

 

Akira Kurosawa

 

 Posted June 08, 2010