HARAKIRI Sat, Nov 19 at Noon| Sun, Nov 20 showtime TBA
Dir. Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | 1962 | 135 min. | NR | 35mm | In Japanese with English subtitles
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. But when the samurai inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him, things take an unexpected turn. Iyi’s clansmen believe the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, but they have underestimated his honor and his past. Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, Masaki Kobayashi’s masterful HARAKIRI is a scathing denouncement of feudal authority and hypocrisy.
SAMURAI REBELLION Sat, Nov 19 at 2:40pm | Sun, Nov 20 showtime TBA
Dir. Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | 1967 | 121 min. | NR | 35mm | In Japanese with English subtitles
Legendary actor Toshiro Mifune stars in Masaki Kobayashi’s gripping SAMURAI REBELLION as an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders his son to marry the lord’s disgraced mistress. Reluctantly, father and son take in the woman, and to the family’s surprise, the young couple fall in love until the lord demands her return and the elder refuses, risking the destruction of their entire family.