Date: 10 – 20 March 2011
Venue:
Dewan Kuliah Utama,
ASWARA (Akademi Seni Budaya Dan Warisan Kebangsaan),
464 Jalan Tun Ismail, 50480 Kuala Lumpur.
Admission: Free
Japanese Foundation Kuala Lumpur (JFKL) is organizing a tribute to most fame director, Akira Kurosawa.
Taken from the official website of JFKL:-
Akira KUROSAWA was a famed Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, who directed 30 films in his 57-year career. Born in 1910 and deceased in 1998 at the age of 88, the year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur, together with ASWARA (Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan), proudly present Akira Kurosawa Film Festival ~ Centennial Retrospective, featuring 25 of his titles including “Seven Samurai”, “Rashomon” and “Ikiru” that have inspired and influenced quite a number of Japanese and foreign filmmakers, such as Takeshi KITANO, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, John Woo and Zhang Yimou.
Saturday, 12 March @ 4:30pm
1. Title: "Looking at Sanjuro & Yojimbo"
Speaker: U-Wei Haji Saari
2. Title: ‘Moving Forward with Tradition ~Kurosawa and his story telling, as a person and his work’
Speaker: Adman Md Salleh (Dean, Faculty of Film and Video, ASWARA)
Saturday, 19 March @ 4:30pm
1. Title: "THE RIGHT AND WRONG OF THE HIGH AND LOW"
The contrasts and contradictions of Kurosawa's crime thriller High and Low and how the film's dualism becomes relevant today within Chris Chong Chan Fui's video installation HEAVENHELL.
The contrasts and contradictions of Kurosawa's crime thriller High and Low and how the film's dualism becomes relevant today within Chris Chong Chan Fui's video installation HEAVENHELL.
Speaker: Chris Chong Chan Fui (Filmmaker)
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