Let's watch The Hidden Fortress after dinner at El Nuevo
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Reminder - $1 will be collected from each person at the event to cover Meetup website costs.
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The Century Cinema Theatre is hosting a rare screening of a classic directed by Akira Kurosawa.
The 1958 film The Hidden Fortress tells the story of two Japanese peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy lines in return for gold, without knowing that he is a general and she is a princess. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as General Makabe Rokurōta and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.
The Hidden Fortress was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year in Japan, and Kurosawa's most successful film up to that point. It influenced the creation of Star Wars.
Writing for The Criterion Collection in 1987, David Ehrenstein called it "one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made" and a "fast-paced, witty and visually stunning" samurai film.
Let's meet inside the main entrance at the theater at 6 pm, then head over to the restaurant. That should give us enough time to make our showtime at 7:15 pm.
Hope to see you there.