SATURDAY, SEPT. 27 11:30AM
MONDAY, SEPT. 29 7PM
Akira Kurosawa not only helped create the modern cinema antihero with 1961’s Yojimbo, he became an early adopter of the tentpole sequel a year later with Sanjuro. Toshiro Mifune’s scruffy ronin literally wakes up in the midst of a deadly rift between two halves of a samurai clan and, once again, outwits and outfights all. The ending underlines that Kurosawa and his nameless ronin are playing the game at a higher level. -Lee Gardner
1962 Akira Kurosawa 2.35:1 B&W DCP 95 min. In Japanese with subtitles.
