Description
Following the triumphs of his Samurai Trilogy and Rickshaw Man, celebrated jidai-geki master Hiroshi Inagaki and legendary star Toshiro Mifune reteamed for this superlative adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s evergreen play Cyrano de Bergerac, which faithfully transplants the action to seventeenth-century Japan. Mifune delivers one of his finest and most affecting performances as the bulbous-nosed poet-samurai who puts his own feelings aside to help another man woo the princess (Yoko Tsukasa) they both love. Swooningly romantic, boisterously comic, and rapturously colorful, Samurai Saga is a grand paean to the chivalric ideals of love. Description courtesy of the Criterion Channel.
(Dir.: Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan, 1959, 111 min., 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles)
Accessibility: The public elevator in the West Building (Freer Gallery of Art) is out of service, so your route to the event location may take a few more minutes than usual. Use the accessible entrance at the corner of Independence Avenue and 12th Street SW, and follow the directions when you arrive. Get more accessibility details.
Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served basis for patrons without tickets.
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