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Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Ikiru

Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Japan, 1952, 143 minutes

Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets about living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind...

Original version Japanese; English subtitles

Wednesday 31 May 2017 2017 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

Rashomon

Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Japan, 1950, 88 minutes

In 12th century Japan, a samurai and his wife are attacked by the notorious bandit Tajomaru, and the samurai ends up dead. Tajomaru is captured shortly afterward and is put on trial, but his story and the wife's are so completely different that a psychic is brought in to allow the murdered man to give his own testimony. He tells yet another completely different story. Finally, a woodcutter who found the body reveals that he saw the whole thing, and his version is again completely different from the others.

Original version Japanese; English subtitles

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