[KineJapan] : Japanese New Wave Retrospective & Japanese Film Events in Boston

[Zahlten, Alexander]

Hello All,

If you are in the Boston area this coming month, don’t miss the amazing retrospective The Other New Wave: Alternative Histories of Post-WWII Japanese Cinema at the Harvard Film Archive (curated by Go Hirasawa and the Japan Society). You can find more on the retrospective here: https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/other.html#shorts

Also, we have additional events coming up, (most of them) connected to the retrospective:

April 1: Lecture by Earl Jackson: The Cinematic Subject in Masumura Yasuzo (4:15 – 5:45, Room S250, CGIS South Building, Harvard University)

April 1: Introduction to the retrospective by Go Hirasawa, before the screening of Shorts Program: New Wave Rarities (7:00 pm, Harvard Film Archive)

April 2: Meet the Director! A Conversation with Eizo Yamagiwa about Japanese New Wave Cinema (5:15 – 7:00, Room S250, CGIS South Building, Harvard University) -> see below for more information

We hope to see you there!
Alex



Meet the Director! A Conversation with Eizo Yamagiwa about Japanese New Wave Cinema



Eizo Yamagiwa is a formative figure in Japanese film history and has carried many hats: Japanese New Wave rebel and the last director to emerge from the bankruptcy of the major film studio Shin-Toho, film critic and co-founder of the central film journal Eiga Hihyō (Film Critique), but also fan favorite as director of the Ultraman sci-fi TV series and prominent political activist for prisoners’ rights.



To accompany the pioneering retrospective The Other New Wave: Alternate Histories of Post-WWII Japanese Cinema at the Harvard Film Archive this April, we welcome Eizo Yamagiwa on skype from Tokyo to discuss the other history of Japanese cinema in the postwar.



The conversation will be accompanied by clips from Yamagiwa’s film The End of Love (1961), a legendary film until recently thought lost. (The film will be screened in full at the HFA on April 20 and 21).



Participants:

Film curator Go Hirasawa and Japanese film researchers Julia Alekseyeva (Reischauer Institute / University of Pennsylvania) and Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University) will give a brief introduction to a highly experimental moment in Japanese film history before leading into a conversation with Eizo Yamagiwa.





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