Akira Kurosawa: Four Recent Restorations

December 10, 2025–February 20, 2026

BAMPFA showcases four classics directed by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa—from his searing portrait of modern society Ikiru, to his highly influential works The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, and High and Low, with Toshiro Mifune in the lead. These films are shown in recent 4K restorations.

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  • Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo, 1961

  • Akira Kurosawa: High and Low, 1963

  • Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru, 1952

  • Akira Kurosawa: The Hidden Fortress, 1958

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Upcoming Films

  • High and Low

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1963

    4K Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, December 10, 7 PM

    A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for an executive (Toshiro Mifune) in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).

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  • Ikiru

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1952

    4K Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, December 17, 7 PM

    In Akira Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role.

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  • Yojimbo

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1961

    4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, December 19, 7 PM

    Toshiro Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Akira Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).

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  • The Hidden Fortress

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1958

    4K Digital Restoration

    Saturday, December 20, 3 PM

    Toshiro Mifune swashbuckles his way through this supremely entertaining samurai adventure, the plot inspiration for Star Wars.

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  • The Hidden Fortress

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1958

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sunday, January 11, 1:30 PM

    Toshiro Mifune swashbuckles his way through this supremely entertaining samurai adventure, the plot inspiration for Star Wars.

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  • Ikiru

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1952

    4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, January 23, 4 PM

    In Akira Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role.

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  • High and Low

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1963

    4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, February 13, 4 PM

    A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for an executive (Toshiro Mifune) in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).

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  • Yojimbo

    Akira Kurosawa
    Japan, 1961

    4K Digital Restoration

    Friday, February 20, 4:30 PM

    Toshiro Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Akira Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).

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Past Films