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Follow Us into Fall: Download our September/October schedule!
As summer inevitably begins to close down, we’re pleased to offer a ray of sunshine to warm you through those fall nights. Prepare yourself to survey what we’ve cooked up for September/October at the...
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Trailer of the Day: RAN
One of the late masterpieces of Akira Kurosawa’s career, RAN was inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear and the Japanese legend of daimyo (lord) Mori Motonari. Tatsuya Nakadai plays Hidetora Ichimonji,...
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Trailer of the Day: Samurai Rebellion
This stunning meditation on honor, duty, justice, and love, set in the 18th century, stars the magnificent Toshirô Mifune as Isaburo, a renowned swordsman who takes an heroic but deadly stand for...
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Trailer of the Day: HARAKIRI
Set in the Tokugawa era (1600-1868), Masaki Kobayashi’s classic film is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy and exploitation of the ideal of samurai honor. After the shogunate embarks on a campaign...
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NW Film Center’s Samurai Cinema series presents ONIBABA (1964)
In war-torn 14th-century Japan, an old woman whose son has gone off to war lives with her daughter-in-law in the tall reeds of a swamp. In the wild, lonely landscape, the two women survive by killing...
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Trailer of the Day: SEVEN SAMURAI
Kurosawa’s humanistic masterpiece of honor and courage takes place in a small 18th-century village in the Japanese countryside, where peasants eke out a meager existence from their crops. Threatened...
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Trailer of the Day: LADY SNOWBLOOD
Set in the late 1800s when Japan began to emerge from its feudal isolation, this cult classic features as its protagonist a female samurai—a rare figure in a film genre traditionally dominated by men....
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Trailer of the Day: KILL BILL, VOL. 1
A revenge tale with a female protagonist, blood-gushing fight scenes, animation interwoven with live action, the song “Shura No Hana” (“Flower of Carnage”)…. Quentin Tarantino pays homage to the...
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Trailer of the Day: GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
A highly idiosyncratic take on the samurai film, Jarmusch’s tale of a lone, pigeon-keeping hit man (Forest Whitaker) removes the warrior from feudal Japan and places him in modern-day Jersey City....
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Trailer of the Day: YOJIMBO
Set at the end of the Tokugawa era, YOJIMBO follows the rōnin Sanjuro (Toshirô Mifune) who, while wandering the countryside, happens upon a village over which two clans wage war. Sensing an...
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Trailer of the Day: A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
The first film in Leone’s “Man with No Name” trilogy and one of the most successful spaghetti westerns of the 1960s and ’70s, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS relocates the story of YOJIMBO to the Mexican desert,...
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