The Hidden Fortress

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Actor/Director: Akira Kurosawa
Label: BFI
Genre: World Cinema
Format:4K
Format:4K
Released:18th August 2025
Released:18th August 2025
Catalogue No:BFIU0016
Catalogue No:BFIB1542
Barcode:5022655000162
Barcode:5035673015421

Description:

A story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress, The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa’s first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope, and he exploited this to the full in the film’s rich variety of landscape locations, including the slopes of Mount Fuji.

The Hidden Fortress became Kurosawa’s biggest box office hit to date and won several awards, including the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin Film Festival. Some twenty years on, the film’s influence would have even greater impact on the world’s box office, when George Lucas borrowed elements of its plot for the first of his Star Wars series.