Lecture & Panel Discussion
Re-Imagining Kurosawa

Monday, November 26, 2018 @7pm
Admission: FREE, Registration REQUIRED

About Event:
Academy Award winning Filmmaker, Film Producer and Screenwriter Akira Kurosawa (March 23, 1910 - Sept 6, 1998) was one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, who inspired many of the world’s greatest filmmakers such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Kurosawa’s ground-breaking masterpieces inspired such classic movies as Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, and A Fistful of Dollars, to name just a few.

In this lecture, Dr. David Desser will help you “Re-Imagine Akira Kurosawa” as he provides you unique insight into Kurosawa and his classic film, High and Low(1963), which was adapted from Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom.

Panel discussion/Q&A session follows the lecture (special guest panelists: TBA).

About Lecturer:
David Desser, Ph.D. (Dean, Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film)
Dr. Desser has taught at the University of Southern California (USC), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Kansai University in Japan, Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Illinois where he is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies. He received his Ph.D. from USC in the Cinema program with a minor in Japanese. As Dean of the Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film, he oversees the Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film online Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Digital Filmmaking program.

This event is co-presented by Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film

Suported by JAPAN HOUSE LOS ANGELES