Fwd: March 25, Japanese Pink Film Director Meike Mitsuru, 4:30 PM, HGS 217B

[Aaron Gerow]

> NEW EVENT!
>
>
> The Council on East Asian Studies presents
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> The Japanese "Pink Film" Director
>
> Meike Mitsuru
>
> March 25, 2005
> 4:30pm, Room 217B, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street
>
> Meike will present one of his films (title TBA) and engage in 
> discussion afterwards.
> Translation will be provided for the discussion as well as an English 
> plot summary of the film if it is not subtitled.
>
> "Pink films" are technically adult films in Japan, but given Japanese 
> censorship codes, most would only get an R-17 in the USA. They have 
> been extremely important in the history of Japanese cinema, first in 
> the 1960s as a place of radical political and aesthetic 
> experimentation, and then in the 1970s and 1980s (with Nikkatsu's 
> Roman Porno) as a vital training ground for new directors and film 
> styles. Many of the important directors in mainstream Japanese cinema 
> of the last 30 years actually got their start or were otherwise 
> involved in pink film. Even today, pink film continues to be a site 
> for many exciting new talent.
>
> Meike Mitsuru is one of the most critically acclaimed of the young 
> pink film directors, with an often comedic and parodic style, and is 
> currently residing in New York on a prestigious Japanese government 
> fellowship for? artists. He has graciously agreed to come to Yale, 
> show his work, and talk to us about "pink film" and contemporary 
> Japanese cinema.