- Friday April 7th 2023, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Saturday April 8th 2023, 2:00pm to 4:30pm
- Saturday April 8th 2023, 7:00pm to 9:30pm
- Saturday April 15th 2023, 7:00pm to 9:30pm
- Thursday April 20th 2023, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Friday April 21st 2023 at 7:00pm to Saturday April 22nd 2023 at 9:30pm
- Saturday April 29th 2023, 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Presented in partnership with Lightbox Film Center as part of the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia. Funding for this program was provided by The Japan Foundation, New York.
Few actors have achieved the level of international recognition as Toshiro Mifune.Embodying a new form of Japanese masculinity in an era when the postwar relationship between US-Japan was still being actively negotiated, Mifune’s popular film roles elevated him to the status of cultural icon even among American audiences of the time. In this 7-film retrospective we will explore roles spanning the late 1940s immediate postwar era to the height of Mifune’s career in the late 1960s.
SCHEDULE:
Drunken Angel - Friday, April 7 | 7PM
Yojimbo - Saturday, April 8 | 2PM
Sanjuro - Saturday, April 8 | 7PM
Stray Dog - Saturday, April 15 | 7PM
Sword of Doom - Thursday, April 20 | 7PM
The Bad Sleep Well - Friday, April 21 | 7PM
Samurai Rebellion - Saturday, April 29 | 7PM
