The Hidden Fortress
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1958 / 139 min.
This (wide screen) epic adventure film is full of ironic humour and spectacular action and was a major inspiration for George Lucas' Star Wars. Featuring the iconic Toshiro Mifune as a general tasked with protecting a princess in 16th-century Japan.
For The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa mixed samurai films with road movies, adding a dash of American western. A general and a princess smuggle royal treasures through enemy territory chaperoned by a couple of clumsy, cunning farmers who prove less bad than they initially appear. The Hidden Fortress is one of Kurosawa's most stylish films in which he used the TohoScope widescreen format for the first time to do even more justice to the spectacular setting.
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1958
Country
JP
Original title
Kakushi toride no san-akunin
Length
139 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm, DCP
Part of
Akira Kurosawa
After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.
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