Vendetta at Sozenji Temple (Adauchi Sozenji baba)
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
6510
SINGULAR SAMURAI
A series of samurai films slightly off the beaten track, featuring singing samurai, a samurai Cyrano de Bergerac, and even the samurai who inspired Star Wars, directed by such masters as Kurosawa Akira, Inagaki Hiroshi, and Kato Tai.
Vendetta at Sozenji Temple (Adauchi Sozenji baba)
Directed by Makino Masahiro, 1957 (16mm, 92 min.)
Synopsis: Revenge meets resentment against authority meets love. A thrilling samurai story from the master of genre cinema, Makino Masahiro. Starring Otomo Ryutaro (Tampopo). Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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In Conjunction with "Japanese Cinema before 1960" FILM 446/JAPN 270/LITR 384/JAPN 586.
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