NYC: Nikkatsu Eastern Western This Friday

[Jonathan M. Hall]

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> ? Nikkatsu Corporation
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> Plains Wanderer
> (Daisogen no wataridori)
> Friday March 14
> 7:30pm
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> Traveling through remote Hokkaido with a little boy abandoned by  
> his mother, Taki fights alongside the Ainus in a battle against a  
> developer who wants to turn their land into an airstrip.
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> As a part of the Wanderer series (1959-1962), "Eastern Westerns"  
> like Plains Wanderer were a popular subgenre within the Nikkatsu  
> studio.
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> 1960, 83 min., 35mm, color. Directed by Buichi Saito. With Akira  
> Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Joe Shishido.
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> Presented for the first time in the U.S., this film is part of the  
> NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema series, curated  
> by Mark Schilling (Variety and Japan Times).
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> Series co-organized by Outcast Cinema.
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> TICKETS
> $10/$7 Japan Society members, students & seniors.
> First 20 student tickets are $4.50 students. Purchase tickets  
> online or call the Box Office at (212) 715-1258.
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