[KineJapan] Japanese comedy series and Ogigami Naoko

[Aaron Gerow]

COMIC LEGACIES ON THE JAPANESE SILVER SCREEN

As many of you know, we at Yale have been running a 13-film series of Japanese film comedies since February. The last event in the series will be this Saturday, April 20, 2024, and will feature the screening of two films and a panel discussion with two special guests.

7:00: Kamome Diner (かもめ食堂 , 2006)
directed by Naoko Ogigami
1h 42m, 35mm

8:50: Q&A and Panel Discussion featuring director Ogigami Naoki and NFAJ curator Tomita Mika, with Xavi Sawada and Aaron Gerow

10:00 Make Way for the Jaguars! (進め！ジャガーズ 敵前上陸, 1968)
directed by Yoichi Maeda
1h 23m, 35mm
World premiere of an English subtitled version made at Yale.

Location: Alice Cinema (L01), Humanities Quadrangle, Yale
Free and open to the public

https://ceas.yale.edu/events/double-feature-kamome-diner-2006-make-way-jaguars-1968-director-panel

I hope people in the vicinity can come and join us.

I also urge you to download the 20-page pamphlet for the series that the students and I prepared:
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ceas_film_series/3/


Aaron Gerow
Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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