THE HIDDEN FORTRESS
aka KAKUSHI TORIDE NO SAN-AKUNIN

Year: 1958
UK: BFI (Collections)
Cast: Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Kamatari Fujiwara, Toshiko Higuchi, ToshirO Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Takashi Shimura, Kichijiro Ueda, Misa Uehara, Koji Mitsui, Tadao Nakamaru, Rinsaku Ogata, Shiten Ohashi, Ikio Sawamura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese (English subtitles)
UK: 138 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains some mild violence and sexual references
UK Release Date: 1 February 2002 (Limited Re-release - London)

Synopsis

The dethroned but still imperious princess and her faithful general somehow get through enemy lines, more hindered than helped by two greedy country folk who get themselves involved in the exciting complications of plot full of escapades that keep happening right up to the close of the film. THE HIDDEN FORTRESS is the film that also so impressed George Lucas he used the plot as the premise for STAR WARS.