TV/FILM: Akira Kurosawa Screenings at Billy Wilder Theater

UCLA Film and Television Archive's The Centennial Celebration: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Part II includes 'Throne of Blood,' 'The Bad Sleep Well' and more. Long before his death in 1998 at the age of 88, Akira Kurosawa was widely regarded as the world's greatest living director and one of the most influential filmmakers of any era. His 1950 "Rashomon," a period tale in which a bandit's assault on an aristocratic woman traveling through a forest, is told from four different viewpoints, took...

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