Yoshida Kiju Screening at Yale University

[Richard Suchenski]

Hi everyone,

 

I wanted to announce a rare screening of two films by Yoshida Kiju in good
35mm subtitled prints imported from Japan here at Yale this Friday night.
The screening details are below and these are free and open to the public,
so please pass the information along to anyone you know who might be
interested.  Needless to say, this is an exceedingly rare chance to see
these films and feel free to contact me off-list if you want more
information about anything.

 

Best,

Richard Suchenski

 

Friday, November 7
FILMS OF THE JAPANESE NEW WAVE
One of the most under-recognized cinematic movements of the 1960s, the
Japanese New Wave was unique in its modernist fusion of breathtaking visual
textures and politically charged explorations of twentieth-century history.
This series presents a pair of culminating masterworks by one of the most
important Japanese directors of the postwar period, Yoshida Kiju. 

7pm
Coup d'?tat (Kaigenrei) (1973) 110 min. Dir. Yoshida Kiju
Yoshida revisits the life of Kita Ikki, a leading intellectual figure of the
pre-WWII right-wing movement in Japan, in the prelude to the failed Imperial
Japanese Army coup attempt of February 26, 1936.
*Print imported from Japan 

9pm
Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu + gyakusatsu) (1969) 179 min. Dir. Yoshida Kiju
Intricately conceived, masterfully directed, and eerily beautiful, Yoshida's
epic addresses the relationship between the 1960s and the Taisho era
(1912-1926) by telling parallel stories involving anarchist Sakae Osugi and
two students doing research on the political theories and ideas of free love
that he upheld.
*Print imported from Japan 

53 Wall Street.  Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.  New Haven C.T.
All films on 35 mm.   

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