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X-TREME PRIVATE DOCUMENTARY:
KAZUO HARA + MICHAEL MOORE
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CJS presented this two-day event featuring documentary film directors Kazuo Hara and Michael Moore live on stage together for the first time.
Featured Event: A Public Conversation with Kazuo Hara and Michael Moore
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2007
Time: 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor (http://michtheater.org/)
Details: Free and open to the public. No tickets necessary.
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Public Conversation
[From left to right: Etsuko Yamanouchi (interpreter), Michael Moore, Mark West, Kazuo Hara, Hiromi Fujii (interpreter), and Abé Markus Nornes]
(Photo courtesy of Marty Perez.) |
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Documentary filmmaker, Kazuo Hara, during the public conversation at the Michigan Theater.
(Photo courtesy of Marty Perez.) |
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Michael Moore at the public conversation with Kazuo Hara.
(Photo courtesy of Marty Perez.)
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CJS Director, Mark West, introduces the event.
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services.) |
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Abé Markus Nornes, U-M Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures, discusses Hara's films.
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services.) |
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Michael Moore and Mark West during the on-stage conversation.
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services.)
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Introduction to The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. [Kazuo Hara (director) and Sachiko Kobayashi (producer)]
(Photo by Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services.) |
Special Film Screenings:
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974, 98 min., 16mm, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Date: Friday, May 11, 2007
Time: 7pm
Location: Askwith Auditorium, Lorch Hall, 611 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor (Parking is free after 6pm at the University parking structures on Church Street and Hill Street.)
Click here for a map of the location.
For written directions, please click here.
Details: Free and open to the public. No tickets necessary.
Overview: In this profoundly personal film about political and sexual revolution, Hara paints a portrait of his abusive former lover, Miyuki Takeda. She is a determined feminist involved in bisexual and interracial relationships. Hara's intense "home movie" follows her to the military bases of Okinawa, climaxing with her most unusual and "independent" childbirth.
Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi (producer) introduced this film and took part in a post-screening Q&A.
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The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987, 122 min., 35mm, in Japanese with English subtitles)
Date: Saturday, May 12 , 2007
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty, Ann Arbor (http://michtheater.org/)
Details: Free and open to the public. No tickets necessary.
Overview: Moore calls this film "the most amazing piece of filmmaking." It centers around Kenzo Okuzaki, a WWII vet of the fighting on New Guinea. Forty years after the fact, Okuzaki visits his former comrades with Hara to investigate the ambiguous circumstances behind the summary execution of two privates. When memories of the vets prove "faulty," Okuzaki pries the information out in the most shocking ways --- on camera.
Kazuo Hara, Michael Moore, Sachiko Kobayashi (producer), and Abé Markus Nornes introduced this film. |
For a PDF of the event poster, click here.
CJS would like to thank the Michigan Theater and Tidepoint Pictures for their help with this event.
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