BLESS present "Ame agaru – After the Rain"

Entrance free

In the run-up to their exhibition Bless N°41. Retroperspective Home, Bless invite you to a personal film evening. You will have another chance to see an impressive film that tells the quiet story of a charismatic hero. Ame Agaru – After the Rain is a gentle samurai film, shot from a screenplay by legendary director Akira Kurosawa.

Eighteenth-century Japan – masterless samurai Ihei Misawa takes part in a prize contest against samurai code to win money to feed starving fellow travellers stranded with him in a country inn. The next day, he manages to disarm a pair of quarrelling samurai, whereupon local lord Shigeaki offers him a job as fencing instructor. But when Shigeaki hears that he has taken part in a prize contest, he withdraws his offer, and Ihei continues his journey. Ihei’s wife explains to the bearer of the bad news: ‘What is important is not what he did but why he did it.’ When these words are reported to Shigeaki, he has his horses saddled…

(director: Takashi Koizumi, 199, 91 mins, Japanese with English subtitles)
 

my own private cinema
... is an unusual film series. The Kunsthaus Graz regularly invites someone with passion and great enthusiasm for film as a medium to present a personal favourite film. For the public, this is a chance to see a film through the eyes of someone for whom the film is something special. On the way, unexpected light is thrown on genres, subject matter, individual interests and perspectives.