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CJS has invited three special guests to select three nights' of films for the fall series: Toshiya Ueno, Jonathan Hall, and Christine Marran. Along with the film picks, each guest will speak as part of CJS's Thursday noon lecture series, introduce one of their film picks at the screening on the following night, and join a casual film chat after the screening.
Fridays at 7:00 PM
Askwith Auditorium in Lorch Hall, 611 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(at the intersection of Tappan and Monroe)
Admission FREE
Parking is free after 6:00 p.m. at the University parking structures on Church Street and Hill Street
Please click here for a map of the location.
For written directions, please click here.
FILMS
September 30 ~ Diary of Yunbogi Boy (Yunbogi no nikki) (1965)
30 min., 16mm, documentary short
Nagisa Oshima, Director
Through stark still photographs and narration, Nagisa Oshima casts his eye on the human condition in Korea, just after the signing of the 1965 Japanese-Korean treaty.
(Print and permission provided byNew Yorker Films. Image credits to Sozosha.)
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September 30 ~ Silence Has No Wings
(Tobenai Chinmoku) (1966)
110 min., 16mm, drama
Kazuo Kuroki, Director
For his first fiction feature, Kazuro Kuroki examines Japan from a butterfly’s point-of-view in this allegorical, dreamlike film, named after a Federico Garcia Lorca poem and influenced by the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
(Print provided by the Japan Foundation. Permission provided by Toho Co. Ltd.)
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October 7 ~ Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
(Shinjuku dorobo nikki ) (1968)
96 min., 16mm, drama
Nagisa Oshima , Director
A man tries to steal a Jean Genet memoir and becomes embroiled in the psycho-sexual exploits of the young woman who catches him in Oshima’s fractured, playful mix of fiction and documentary, which feeds off the energy of late-’60s student unrest.
(Print and permission provided byNew Yorker Films. Image credits to the Art Theater Guild.)
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October 14 ~ Cowboy Bebop
(Tengoku no tobira) (2001)
98 min., DVD, animé
Shinichirô Watanabe, Director
The rogue, bounty-hunting crew of the Bebop comes up against a nemesis hell-bent on world destruction in director Shinichirô Watanabe’s striking vision of futuristic urban decay, based upon the wildly successful Animé series.
(Print and permission provided by Swank Motion Pictures.)
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October 21 ~ Innocence: Ghost in the Shell, Part II
(Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai) (2004)
99 min., 35mm, animé
Mamoru Oshii, Director
In master Animé director Mamoru Oshii’s sequel to his 1995 classic, philosophy, technology and humanity collide when an android cop investigates a series of disturbing deaths among a community of pleasure-bots.
(Print and permission provided by Swank Motion Pictures. Image credits to Dreamworks.)
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October 28 ~ Funeral Parade of Roses
(Bara no soretsu)
(1969)
105 min., 16mm, drama
Toshio Matsumoto, Director
A pioneering, influential work of the Japanese New Wave, Toshio Matsumoto’s feature uses a cross-dressed love-triangle melodrama as a springboard for a daring, experimental look at economics, sexuality and gender politics in late-’60s Tokyo.
(Print provided by the Japan Foundation.
Permissions provided by Image Forum.)
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November 4 ~ AKA Serial Killer
(Ryakusho renzoku shasatsuma) (1969)
86 min., 35mm, documentary
Masao Adachi, Yu Yamazaki, Masaki Nonomura, Susumu Iwabuchi, Masao Matsuda, and Mamoru Sasaki, Co-Directors
A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing his crimes. Their result is this provocative, rarely-screened meditation on geography and society.
(Print and permission provided by Go Hirasawa.)
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November 11 ~ Farewell to the Ark
(Saraba hakobune) (1984)
127 min., 16mm, mystery
Shuji Terayama, Director
In a remote, rural village, two cousins violently defy their family’s wishes and run away together in director Shuji Terayama’s surreal, symbolic meditation on time, memory and desire.
(Print provided by the Japan Foundation. Permissions provided by Toho Co., Ltd.)
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November 18 ~ Branded to Kill
(Koroshi no rakuin) (1967)
98 min., 16mm, animé
Seijun Suzuki, Director
Seijun Suzuki turned the assassin-thriller genre inside out – and influenced scores of filmmakers in the process – with this eye-popping, absurdly cool tale of a hired killer who becomes prey after botching a job.
(Print provided by the Japan Foundation. Permissions provided by the Criterion Collection. Image credits to Nikkatsu.)
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December 2 ~ Profound Desire of the Gods
(Kamigami no fukaki yokubo) (1968)
172 min., 35mm, drama
Shohei Imamura, Director
The myths and traditions of a primitive island family sit uneasily with the development taking place all around them in Shohei Imamura’s sensational, stinging critique of the intersection between modernization and tradition.
(Print provided by the Japan Foundation. Permissions provided byNikkatsu. Image credits to Nikkatsu.)
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This film series is made possible with funding from a USDE Title VI grant, the Criterion Collection, Image Forum, the Japan Foundation, New Yorker Films, Nikkatsu, Swank Motion Pictures, Inc., Toho Co., Ltd., and with special thanks to Go Hirasawa.
RECENT FILM SERIES
Three Films - Fall 2005
Critics' Choice - Summer 2005
A Mizoguchi Retrospective - Fall 2004
Comedy and Crisis in a Growing Japan: The Films of Yamada Yoji - Summer 2004
The Other Anime - Fall 2003
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