Cinema for Breakfast with Kurosawa

Sunday, January 21st marks the start of the second part of Cinema a Colazione Season 2, a film festival organized by the Centro Studi Commedia all’italiana, 50&Più Università di Livorno, FiPiLi Horror Festival, Circolo KInoglaz, and Erasmo Libri, with the participation of the Municipality of Livorno. The event takes place at the Centro Artistico Il Grattacielo.

Following the success of Opere Prime, which had an average audience of 127 spectators per film (with six films screened), the second thematic area addressed by the festival is that of restored classics.

The first scheduled screening is at the Centro Artistico Il Grattacielo and will feature the film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa (Japan 1950 – 1h28m). The film will be introduced by Alfonso Maurizio Iacono.

The film will be shown in its original version with Italian subtitles at the usual time: 9:15 for breakfast; 10:30, film screening. Admission: 8 euros, including breakfast.

Rashomon is a crime, drama, and mystery film from 1950 directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirô Mifune and Machiko Kyô.

To escape the rain, three people seek shelter under the Rasho-Mon temple gate: a Buddhist priest, a woodcutter, and a servant. The first two are troubled by an incident that occurred a few days before. A samurai was killed in the forest, and the authorities suspect the bandit Tagiomaru, who claims to have raped Mesago, the samurai’s wife, and then fought a duel with him. However, Mesago denies this, stating that she herself killed her husband after enduring his contempt. To discover the truth, the judges summon the spirit of the samurai. He claims that Mesago, after being possessed, invited the bandit to murder her husband. Tagiomaru refused, but the samurai, unable to bear the disgrace, killed himself. “Everyone is lying,” reflects the Buddhist priest in despair. From the temple, the cry of an abandoned baby is heard. The woodcutter, who already has six children, takes the baby to raise as his own.

Akira Kurosawa (Tokyo, March 23, 1910 – Tokyo, September 6, 1998) was a Japanese director, screenwriter, editor, film producer, and writer, considered one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema. Among his numerous awards, he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 1982, and an Honorary Oscar in 1990.

Alfonso Maurizio Iacono is an Italian philosopher. He is a professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa and in the academic year 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris 1. Until 2012, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Pisa.

Cinema a Colazione is organized by the Centro Studi Commedia all’italiana, 50&Più Università di Livorno, FiPiLi Horror Festival, Circolo KInoglaz, and Erasmo Libri, with the participation of the Municipality of Livorno.

Timings: Sunday morning (9:15 for breakfast – 10:30 film screening).

Ticket: 8 euros, including breakfast.

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