The Cinematheque

“Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks … Drawing on hard-boiled US fiction, as American film had fed on his own Seven Samurai, the director brings unforgettable intensity to his anxious noir.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

A double-shot sidebar to our summer noir season, this pair of procedurals from Japanese eminence Kurosawa Akira serves as a run-up to the forthcoming ​“Eternal Master” exhibition, a touring showcase of newly restored Kurosawa work, which will arrive, en masse, in our next programming cycle (September–October).