{"id":2921,"date":"2025-07-04T00:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/film-academy\/?post_type=faevents&#038;p=2921"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:12:08","slug":"several-samurai","status":"publish","type":"faevents","link":"https:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/film-academy\/recommends\/several-samurai\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Samurai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column ws-flex-grow-sm-0 ws-flexbasis-sm-15 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\">\n<div id=\"ws-event-date-block_d44e5ac37c0fde5909681062f8f89f5b\" class=\"ws-event-date ws-event-date-block\">\n    <span class=\"ws-event-day\">20<\/span>\n  <span class=\"ws-event-month\">Jun<\/span>\n      <span class=\"ws-event-month\">2025<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout June and July at Watershed, explore several Samurai-featuring works from Akira Kurosawa, co-curated by Jojo Myers-Insole, our 16-19 Film Club host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watershed are marking the 40th anniversary of Ran (1985), Akira Kurosawa\u2019s epic take on King Lear, by screening some of his great Chanbara (swordfighting) classics \u2013 ranging from the highly influential Seven Samurai (1954), through to another of his later masterpieces, Kagemusha (1980).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Focussing on three decades out of a filmmaking career that spanned more than 50 years, Kurosawa\u2019s influence spreads far, and wide, from being the inspiration for many classic American Westerns like the Magnificent Seven or A Fistful of Dollars, or even to sci-fi &#8211; famously a key inspiration for George Lucas\u2019 Star Wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discount codes have been sent via the BFI Film Academy SW newsletter. 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