Name: Art of Action: Seven Samurai
Start: 2024-12-27T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-27T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is immensely influential and arguably the defining work of Japanese cinema. Screening from a new 4K restoration.
When 16th-century farmers whose village is repeatedly attacked by merciless bandits ask an elderly, masterless samurai (Takashi Shimura) for help, offering nothing but food in return, he hesitantly agrees and assembles a band of warriors to defend and train the villagers.
Boasting terrific performances, (with Shimura and Toshiro Mifune – as a peasant masquerading as a samurai – particularly memorable), superb camerawork, and expertly mounted battle sequences, Seven Samurai is undoubtedly one of the greatest action films ever made.