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TCM Celebrates Akira Kurosawa's 100th Birthday

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Schedule:
Tuesday, March 9
08:00 p.m. - Ikiru (1952)
10:30 p.m. - Throne of Blood (1957)

Wednesday, March 10
12:30 a.m. - The Hidden Fortress (1958)
03:00 a.m. - The Idiot (1951)
06:00 a.m. - The Lower Depths (1957)

Tuesday, March 16
08:00 p.m. - The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
10:45 p.m. - High and Low (1963)

Wednesday, March 17
01:15 a.m. - Red Beard (1965)
04:30 a.m. - I Live in Fear (1955)
06:15 a.m. - Scandal (1950)

Sunday, March 21 - Adapted from Akira Kurosawa
08:00 p.m. - The Outrage (1964)
10:00 p.m. - The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Tuesday, March 23 - His Birthday
06:00 a.m. - Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
07:30 a.m. - The Most Beautiful (1944)
09:00 a.m. - The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
10:00 a.m. - Sanshiro Sugata Part 2 (1945)
11:30 a.m. - No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
01:30 p.m. - One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
03:30 p.m. - Drunken Angel (1948)
05:30 p.m. - Stray Dog (1949)
08:00 p.m. - Rashomon (1950)
09:30 p.m. - Seven Samurai (1954)

Wednesday, March 24
01:00 a.m. - Yojimbo (1961)
03:00 a.m. - Sanjuro (1962)
04:45 a.m. - Dodes ‘Ka-Den (1970)

Tuesday, March 30
08:00 p.m. - Dersu Uzala (1975)
10:30 p.m. - Kagemusha (1980)

Wednesday, March 31
01:45 a.m. - Ran (1985)

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