Panel Discussion Miller Theatre, Columbia University (116th St. & Broadway)

February 9, 1999

Panel Discussion
Miller Theatre, Columbia University (116th St. & Broadway)
6:00 PM

Panel discussion with film critics Andrew Sarris and Stanley Kauffmann, Columbia professors Paul Anderer and Lewis Cole, and Donald Keene Center director Peter Grilli about Akira Kurosawa’s life and legacy.

Film: Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)
Director: Akira Kurosawa. (1954, 208min.)
With Tadashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Kuninori Kodo, and Minoru Chiakii.
Miller Theatre, Columbia University (116th St. & Broadway)
8:30 PM

One of the enduring classics of world cinema, Seven Samurai is regularly named to “best ever” lists by international film critics.  In a 1979 poll of Japanese critics, it was selected as the best Japanese film ever made (Ikiru was voted No. 2, Rashomon No. 9, and Yojimbo No. 11).  Seven Samurai is the apotheosis of the action film, and moviegoers everywhere have reacted enthusiastically to its elemental plot.  A small band of good, strong men come to the aid of a farm village besieged by marauding bandits.  They do so because it is the right and honorable thing to do, even thought they receive little tangible award and even less thanks.  This film inspired an American re-make called The Magnificent Seven, as well as several sequences of Star Wars.

Part of “Kurosawa Remembered” Film Series