UC Irvine Japanese Documentary Series - Hara Kazuo - October 28, 30

[Jonathan M. Hall]

Japanese Documentary Series - Hara Kazuo - October 28, 30
UC Irvine Film and Video Center
Irvine CA

Thursday, October 28 7:30pm - Extreme Private Eros:  Love Song 1974
1974, 98 minutes, B&W, in Japanese with English subtitles

Saturday, October 30 7:30pm - Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
1987, 122 minutes, in Japanese with English subtitles

In Part One of the Japanese Documentary Series at the Film and Video
Center, Hara Kazuo, creator of one of the most controversial
documentary films ever made about World War II, will come to campus to
present two of his films:  Extreme Private Eros:  Love Song 1974
(Kyokushiteki erosu koiuta, 1974) and Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
(Yukiyukite shungun, 1987).  By focusing on marginal characters, a
radical feminist and a stubborn anti-emperor war veteran of Japan's
campaigns in New Guinea, the two films attempt to break various social
taboos of Japanese family, society, and nationalism from an intensely
personal perspective.  Professor Akira Mizuta Lippit (FMS) will
moderate the discussions.

Both shows will be presented in HIB 100 followed by Q&A sessions with
the director.  Tickets are available at the door:  general - $5,
faculty and staff - $4, students - $3.