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JAPANESE FILM MASTERPIECES
September 14-October 2

Japanese film masterpieces from our film archive collection. No English subtitles provided except for “Tobira No Mukou” and “Ari No Heitai”.

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REVIEWS TO THE
JAPANESE FILM MASTERPIECES PROGRAM
■Meshi ■Tokyo Monogatari ■ Shin Santou Juuyaku
■ Kirare Yosaburo ■ Suna No Onna ■Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo
■Denen Ni Shisu■ SAWADA ■Dogura Magura
■Seishun No Mon ■Seishun No Mon Jiritsu Hen
■ Ari No Heitai ■Tobira No Mukou


Meshi
Dir: Mikio Naruse
Cast: Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara
1951
35mm
BW
97 min.
No English subtitles
A married securities company man is transferred to Osaka from Tokyo. Conversation with his wife is in a diminishing trend when one day his uninhibited nieces drops by for a visit...

Tokyo Monogatari
Dir: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara,
1953
35mm
BW
136 min.
No English subtitles
An old couple from the countryside come visit their children in Tokyo but their son and daughter are too busy to care for their parents…

Shin Santou Juuyaku
Dir: Masanori Kakei
Cast: Hisaya Morishige,
　 　　Michio Aratama
1959/35mm
BW
91 min.
No English subtitles
While the President of KK Sekai Denki in Osaka is off abroad, the wife of the former president gets her attractive daughter a job in the company. The young male employees of the company all try and win her heart…

Kirare Yosaburo
Dir: Daisuke Ito
Cast: Raizo Ichikawa, Keiko Awaji
1960
35mm
Color
94 min.
No English subtitles
The owner of a candle wholesaler has no child to succeed him, so he adopts Yosaburo but in time a child is born to the owner. Yosaburo, disappointed, leaves on a trip of dissipation where he meets and falls in love with Otomi...

Suna No Onna
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Cast: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
1964
35mm
BW
147min.
No English subtitles
A professor goes to the dunes to pursue his hobby of insect collecting. He stays the night at a woman’s house located at the bottom of a sand pit. In the morning, he discovers he cannot return home because the ladder he used, has been removed on purpose…

Otoko Wa Tsuraiyo
Dir: Youji Yamada
Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho
1969
35mm
Color
91 min.
No English subtitles
Torajiro who left home as a junior high school student suddenly returns and tries to put on a good act at a marriage match meeting for his sister, but fails miserably. Then a factory worker proposes to his sister…

Denen Ni Shisu
Dir: Shuuji Terayama
Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa, Kantaro Suga
1974
35mm
Color
101 min.
No English subtitles
In a mountain village in Aomori Prefecture, a boy lives together with his mother. A beautiful woman moves in next door as a wife and the boy enjoys going up to the mountains to have the spirit medium call his late father…

Seishun No Mon
Dir: Kinji Fukasaku,
　　　Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast: Bunta Sugawara,
　　　 Keiko Matsuzaka
1981
35mm/ Color / 140 min
No English subtitles
Shinsuke Ibuki’s father is a coal miner in Chikuho who is loved by everyone but he dies when the mine is trapped. Ever since, his wife and son come to be supported by Ryugoro, a Yakuza. Then the wife comes down with tuberculosis…

Seishun No Mon Jiritsu Hen
Dir: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast: Kouichi Sato, Kaoru Sugita
1982
35mm
Color
137min.
No English subtitles
Shinsuke Ibuki enters WasedaUniversity where meets Ogata, who is in the drama club. Ogata takes Shinsuke to a whorehouse where he meets a girl named Kaoru. In time, Shinsuke joins the boxing club…

Dogura Magura
Dir: Toshio Matsumoto
Cast: Shijaku Katsura, Youji Matsuda
1988
35mm
Color
109 min.
No English subtitles
A boy awakens at the psychiatric ward of KyushuMedicalSchool. A professor tries recall the boy’s lost past after being told that the boy lost his memory out a frightening experience…

SAWADA
Dir: Shou Igarashi
Documentary
1996
16mm
Color
114 min.
No English subtitles
A documentary of the late Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer, Kyoichi Sawada who took many gruesome shots of the Vietnamese War.

Ari No Heitai
Dir: Kaoru Ikeya
Documentary
2005
35mm
Color
101 min.
English subtitles
A documentary focusing on the fact that at the end of the Second World War, 2,600 Japanese soldiers of the 1st Imperial Unit in China’s Shanxi Province failed to disarm and instead joined the forces of the Kuomingtang Party to fight the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army for three years, on orders of their senior officers.

Tobira No Mukou
Dir: Laurence Thrush
Cast: Kenta Negishi, Masako Innami
2008
Video
BW
101 min.
English subtitles
Hiroshi in 8th grade suddenly locks himself in his room. His mother has no choice but to leave food in front of his room. Seeing her son’s condition continue, his mother finally decides to consult with the YouthAssistanceCenter…


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