Fwd: Special Japan Film Screening Feb. 11, 7 PM WHC Auditorium

[Aaron Gerow]

SPECIAL JAPAN FILM SCREENINGS
Aoyama Shinji Visit Pre-Events

Japanese film director Aoyama Shinji will be visiting Yale in April 
2005.

In preparation for this important visit, the Council on East Asian 
Studies at Yale University
is pleased to present special screenings of films by his favorite 
filmmakers.

Prints courtesy of The Japan Foundation


ALL SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 PM
AND HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street


Friday, February 11, 2005 at 7:00 PM

Our Blood Will Not Forgive (Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai)
Directed by Suzuki Seijun (Nikkatsu, 1964, 35mm, English subtitles)

A wonderfully eccentric gangster action movie from the master director 
of Tokyo Drifter.


Friday, February 25, 2005 at 7:00 PM

Twisted Path of Love (Koibitotachi wa nureta)
Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro (Nikkatsu, 1973, 76 minutes, 35mm, 
English subtitles)

A "Roman Porno" film about sex, violence, and cinema by one of Japan's 
most celebrated filmmakers of the 1970s. (For adults only)


Notes on the two films prepared by Aaron Gerow can be downloaded from 
the CEAS website: http://www.yale.edu/ycias/ceas/events.html