[KineJapan] Upcoming in New York

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

Just passing on several forthcoming events for those in or with access to
the Big Apple:


Marty Gross, Japanese folk craft film director and devotee, will lecture on
"Creating the Mingei Film Archive" through Columbia University's Donald
Keene Center of Japanese Culture on Thursday, 8 Feb., in 403 Kent:

http://www.keenecenter.org/download_files/Marty-Gross-web.jpg


The redoubtable Japan Society will present two atomic bomb-related classics
for its next two monthly classics screenings.  Tonight is Hideo
Sekigawa's *Hiroshima
*(1953), footage from which is said to have been used by Alain Resnais
in *Hiroshima
Mon Amour*.

https://www.japansociety.org/event/hiroshima

Friday, Feb. 2, is Honda's 1954

*Gojira, https://www.japansociety.org/event/godzilla-1
<https://www.japansociety.org/event/godzilla-1>*

followed in three weeks (Wed., Feb. 21) by a lecture and book signing with
Steve Ryfle, author of

*Directing Godzilla:  The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda:*
https://www.japansociety.org/event/directing-godzilla-the-
life-of-filmmaker-ishiro-honda


Two other local venues have monthly martial arts film series which will
screen Japanese titles shortly.  The American Museum of the Moving Image in
Queens will present as part of its Fist and Sword series the 2017 *Blade of
the Immortal*, advertised as Takashi Miike's 100th film (has anyone seen
all 100?), also on Friday, Feb. 2:





*
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2018/02/02/detail/blade-of-the-immortal
<http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2018/02/02/detail/blade-of-the-immortal>*
Finally, Subway Cinema's Have Sword, Will Travel series at the Quad Cinema
will feature *Zatoichi on the Road *and *Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of
Vengeance *on Sunday, Jan 28th:

https://quadcinema.com/program/have-sword-will-travel/




Cheers, and Happy Viewings.

Bill Thompson
wct1 at columbia.edu
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