April 12 screening features intro by film professor David Rothman
One of Akira Kurosawa's finest achievements, this moving 1952 drama stars Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe, a 30-year veteran City Hall bureaucrat who, after a diagnosis of terminal cancer, comes to appreciate his life for the first time.
April 8 & 9, 1:15 p.m.; April 12, 6:30 p.m.