FALL 2005 JAPAN FILM SERIES

[Aaron Gerow]

FALL 2005 JAPAN FILM SERIES
CINEMATIC STRANGERS: MARGINAL FIGURES IN JAPANESE FILM
  A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean 
resident of
Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of 
celebrated films
rarely shown outside Japan.
  In conjunction with FILM 448a/JAPN 271a - Prints Courtesy of the Japan 
Foundation

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2005       7:00 PM
  Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Match (Hibotan bakuto: Hanafuda shobu)
Directed by Kato Tai (1968, 35mm, 98min.)

Chivalric yakuza battle the modern mob in Kato Tai’s aesthetic 
celebration of death.
   (English Subtitles)


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2005       7:00 PM
Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Taiyo o nusunda otoko)
Directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko (1979, 16mm, 147 min.)

A lonely teacher builds a Bomb and takes on the State in a superb 
thriller.  (English
Subtitles)


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2005       7:00 PM
Room 101 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
Typhoon Club (Taifu kurabu)
Directed by Somai Shinji (1985, 16mm, 114 min.)

Somai Shinji’s masterful evocation of the stormy emotions of 
adolescence. (English
Subtitles)


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005       7:00 PM
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
All Under the Moon (Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru)
Directed by Sai Yoichi (1993, 35mm, 100 min)

A resident Korean director humorously takes on Japanese discrimination 
and its
object. (English Subtitles)