User Rating
Director
Roger Cantin
Cast
Matthew Dupuis,
Roxane Gaudette-Loiseau,
Jérôme Leclerc-Couture,
Jean-Philippe Debien,
Charli Arcouette,
Xavier Dolan
Genre
Adventure,
Comedy
Rival groups of children on vacation in a lake town play war games, the wealthier children who stay on the north shore competing with their less rich counterparts on the south shore. Complications arise when the sister of the northern clan’s leader falls for the boy who leads the opposing faction.
BBC by Jamie Russell
A comic epic, Hidden Fortress focuses not on the high drama of the aristocrats' escape, but on the slapstick antics of the faint-hearted peasants as they whinge and moan their way through the countryside.
TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
Akira Kurosawa's THE HIDDEN FORTRESS is a paradigm of the modern adventure epic--a marvelously entertaining blend of a simple but strong plot, exhilarating action scenes, tongue-in-cheek humor, and a solid philosophical underpinning.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Kurosawa's 1958 classic samurai comedy adventure; George Lucas used it as the model for Star Wars, in which Mifune and the two squabbling farmers are transformed into Han Solo, C-3PO and R2-D2. [03 Mar 2006, p.C5]
Time Out by Staff (Not Credited)
The movie that confirmed Kurosawa's greatest strength, his innovative handling of genre.
Village Voice by Jonas Mekas
Few other directors can get so much violent power from their landscapes and their people. No image is boring. [01 Feb 1962, p.11]
Slant Magazine by Jordan Cronk
Kurosawa most often did his finest work when combining his idiosyncratic and popular sensibilities into humane, broadly accessible entertainments; it just so happens that The Hidden Fortress remains more unabashedly entertaining than most.
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