Film
Please note: This was screened in July 2025
When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, only to find himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit and his own ambitions.
In his late colour masterpiece, Akira Kurosawa returns to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career—the play between illusion and reality.
Sumptuously reconstructing the splendour of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power.