"Shinjuku Ecstacy - Independent films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan", NY 18.2.-1.3.

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Sounds like a fascinating event. The Kawasaki City Museum is also
having a nice program of more or less independent Japanese cinema,
accompanying the Awazu Kiyoshi exhibition (a number of his movie
poster designs are on display too). The main portion of the program is
already over, but several Oshima's works are to follow, the highlight
being "Yunbogi no nikki" with a talk by Yomota Inuhiko and Hirasawa
Go. Find more info here:
http://www.kawasaki-museum.jp/display/cinema/#B007

Also, the mention of Kuroki Kazuo reminds me, is any listmember aware
of a Tokyo rental shop or perhaps a library that has his "Shoki
kessaku shu" (黒木和雄初期傑作集) DVD box set? Tsutaya, Waseda University
Library and the National Diet Library apparently do not, so I have all
but lost hope of ever finding it...

Best,
Alo Joekalda

2009/2/14 Roland Domenig <roland.domenig at univie.ac.at>:
> Dear list members,
>
> please allow me to call your attention to a film program I curated for the Japan Society in New York.
>
> "Shinjuku Ecstacy - Independent films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan"
>
> Wed., Feb. 18
> 7:30 pm   Terayama Shuji - Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go into the Street
>
> Fri., Feb. 20
> 7:30 pm   Matsumoto Toshio - Funeral Parade of Roses
> Followed by SHINJUKU PARTY
>
> Sat., Feb. 21
> 3.00 pm   Oshima Nagisa - Death by Hanging
> 5:30 pm   Kuroki Kazuo - Silence Has No Wings
>
> Sun., Feb. 22
> 3:00 pm   Yoshida Kiju - Eros plus Massacre
>
> Tues., Feb.24
> 7:30 pm   Hani Susumu - The Inferno of First Love
>
> Wed., Feb. 25
> 7:30 pm   Shinoda Masahiro - Double Suicide
>
> Fri., Feb. 27
> 7:30 pm   Jissoji Akio - This Transient Life
>
> Sat., Feb. 28
> 3:00 pm   Imamura Shohei - A Man Vanishes
> 5:45 pm   Okabe Michio - Crazy Love
>
> Sun., Mar. 1
> 3:00 pm   Teshigahara Hiroshi - Pitfall
> 5:15 pm   Wakamatsu Koji - Ecstasy of the Angels
>
> For more information please visit the Japan Society homepage:
> http://www.japansociety.org/shinjuku_ecstasy
>
> Some of the films have hardly been screened in the US, so don't miss the opportunity!
>
>
> Roland Domenig
> Institute of East Asian Studies
> University of Vienna
>
>