American Premiere: Acacia Walk

[Aaron Gerow]

American premiere!

ACACIA WALK

Directed by Matsuoka Joji
Starring Natsukawa Yui, Watanabe Misako, Takaoka Sosuke, Sugimoto Tetta

(2001, 90 min., 35mm, in Japanese with English subtitles)

Friday, May 4,2007
8:45 am (NOTE: "am" not "pm")
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
53 Wall Street, Yale University

A powerful but delicate portrait of a woman compelled to take care of 
her aging mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, even though she 
abused her when she was a child. Directed by Matsuoka Joji, one of the 
leading figures of Japanese independent cinema since the 1980s. The 
film will be accompanied by a commentary by Aaron Gerow of Yale 
University.

Acacia Walk will be shown as part of the Symposium on Aging: Cross 
Cultural Perspectives on Aging Through Film and Stories from India and 
Japan, an event sponsored by Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center 
for Bioethics, the South Asian Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, 
and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. For details 
on the symposium, contact autumn.ridenour at yale.edu.