Sep. 13

LET'S START THE SEMESTER OFF WITH A BANG!!!

The Council on East Asian Studies

FALL WELCOME
RECEPTION

5:00 PM - Performance by UNITY Korean Percussion & Dance Troupe of Yale University (Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue)

5:30 to 7:00 PM - Reception (2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue)

For more information regarding UNITY, please visit their web site at http://www.yale.edu/unity/

The Council on East Asian Studies is honored to welcome

Ambassador Hiroyasu Ando, Consul General, Consulate-General of Japan in New York

to deliver a lecture on

"Japan and U.S.-Japan Relations"

Lecture followed by Reception in 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

For more information, please contact Anne Letterman at 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

CONFERENCE ON REPRODUCTION IN JAPAN

organized by Allison Alexy, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale Anthropology

For a complete schedule of events, please CLICK HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: THE FILM SCREENINGS ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2004 WILL NOW BEGIN AT 6:30 PM

For more information regarding this event, please contact Anne Letterman at 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu

Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to welcome

Scholars from the Historical Institute at University of Tokyo

for a special presentation on the current state of development of their on-line historical glossary and database of texts.

For more information, please contact Anne Letterman at 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu

Room 103, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies and the Music Department of Yale University are pleased to present a special

GUANGDONG MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Guangdong yinyue (Guangdong Music), sometimes referred to in English as "Cantonese Music," is an instrumental genre that first evolved from the transition sequences and interludes of Cantonese opera. Guangdong yinyue is also a compelling example of a traditional regional musical genre that did not grow up in isolation, but which emerged amidst historical transnational flows of people, culture, and capital. This presentation explores the musical genre and its transnational heritage from the perspective of musicians and laymen from the Taishan region of Guangdong Province. The presentation features live performances by an accomplished Guangdong yinyue ensemble that will be integrated with a talk on Guangdong yinyue history.

Sudler Hall,
100 Wall Street

4:00 PM

Oct. 19

So.............what did you do over the summer?

The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale-China Association, Richard U. Light Fellowship Program

"SHOW AND TELL"

Conversations and student presentations on
2004 summer travel, study, internships, and research in Greater China, Japan, and Korea

For more information, please contact Anne Letterman (203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu)

Room 202 and 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

The Sixth Annual John W. Hall Lecture on Japanese Studies

"From Martial Skills to Martial Arts: The Transformation of Warrior Military Methods in Tokugawa Japan"

presented by

G. Cameron Hurst, Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies; Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania

A reception will follow in the 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Yasukichi Yasuba, Osaka Gakuin University- "Real Wages in Early Industrialization: Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom"

Co-sponsored with the Economic Growth Center, Yale University

Room 103, Henry R. Luce Hall,
34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

Michiko Yusa, Professor of Japanese & East Asian Studies, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Western Washington University - "Under the Roofs, Humans Dream, Above the Moon Shines: A Poetic Interpretation of Nishida Kitaro's Dialectical Philosophy"

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall,
34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Xia Xiaohong, Professor of Chinese, Peking University - "The Elite Peking Drama and Women's Education in Late Qing"

Please note this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 103, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenu

12:00 PM

Stanley Abe, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Duke University - "Chinese Sculpture / Modern Subjects"

Sculpture was produced in large quantities over a long period of time in China as architectural ornaments, mortuary works, or objects of religious use. But sculpture was not often considered an object of special aesthetic value. The subject of my current research is the movement of Chinese sculpture, with special attention to Buddhist and Daoist works, from a category of non-art into one of the fine arts. In the process, a heretofore unknown kind of object and knowledge—something called “Chinese sculpture” as well as a history of this art form—came into being as modern facts. In this lecture, I will discuss some specific moments in which objects with religious subject matter, some now thought of as fine art and some not, were displayed. These examples of display and meaning production are meant to contrast the period before and after Chinese sculpture became art as well as the complexities inherent in the construction of new subjects in the modern era.

Room 200, Old Art Gallery, 56 High Street

5:00 PM

Chen Pingyuan, Professor of Chinese, Peking University - "Reading Pilgrim's Progress as Illustrated Fiction"

Please note this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

5:00 PM

"Poems on Hong Kong and the
Multicultural Experience"

a special reading by

Andrew Parkin, Professor of English Emeritus,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Copies of The Rendez-Vous: Poems of Multicultural Experience (Peter Lang Publishing, August 2003) are currently available at The Yale Bookstore!

A special book signing party will follow at The Yale Bookstore at 6:00 PM Barnes & Noble, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT
Telephone: 203-777-8440

Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:00 PM

Ellen Schattschneider, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University - "Creating Spectral Kin: Wartime Annihilation and the Afterlives of Dolls"

Room 1, Anthropology, 158 Whitney Avenue (please note entrance is through the parking lot on Sachem.)

4:30 PM

Edward Friedman, Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Learning About a Chinese Village in a Leninist Authoritarian State"

In authoritarian regimes, people learn to play it safe. Truth is a scarce commodity. Interviewees are people who have learned to be complicitous to survive. Memory is shaped and mis-shaped by all of these forces and more. Therefore learning the truth about the impact of politics and policy in a place like Mao's China or even post-Mao China requires innovative approaches. This talk is about how such work was done over 3 dozen or so visits to rural China over a quarter of a century.

Copies of Professor Friedman's manuscript for this lecture are available at the Council on East Asian Studies (Room 320, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue), please contact eastasian.studies@yale.edu to reserve your copy.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

11:30 AM

Amy Borovoy, Assistant Professor of Japanese Anthropology, East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University - "Recovering from
'Co-dependence' in Postwar Japan"

Room 1, Anthropology, 158 Whitney Avenue (please note entrance is through the parking lot on Sachem.)

4:30 PM

Mark Selden, Bartle Professor of History and Sociology, The State University of New York at Binghamton and Professorial Associate, East Asia Program, Cornell University -"Notes From Ground Zero: Historical Reflections on Power, Equity and Postwar Reconstruction in Two Eras"

President George W. Bush has repeatedly presented the United States' occupation of Japan as the model for Iraq's democratization. Does the Japanese occupation illuminate contemporary reconstructions in Iraq, Afghanistan and other contemporary war-torn societies? Certain similarities do stand out: as in Japan half a century earlier, the US has proclaimed its intention to return "sovereignty" to a democratic Iraq while preserving a dominant American military presence. Yet beyond this obvious similarity lie profound differences in American strategy, goals and commitments, as well as in the nations and peoples it seeks to "reconstruct" and the problems encountered in the two regions and two eras.

Postwar reconstruction invariably serves the strategic interests of the external or occupying power. A critical question, however, is whether it also serves the interests of the nation and important sectors of the people who have borne the brunt of a destructive war. In examining the origins and experiences of half a century of postwar reconstruction, attention is paid to the framing of the political, social and economic development of war-torn nations, with particular reference to the nature and viability of reform agendas. These questions are shaped not only by the goals of the dominant power, but also by the state of war, unrest or peace that prevails during the reconstruction process.

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Culture; Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor - "Art Collecting, Historical Consciousness, and Style in the Art of Early Modern China"

References to past painting are common, if not required, in cultures with established traditions of canonical masterworks and an active market for art. Such references require a consciousness of historical change, but do not require an awareness of historical relativity. A single moment in cultural time may serve as the universal standard for all generations. But what if we find multiple references from distinct historical moments in a single painting? What if we find illusionistic styles being used right alongside historically earlier, "pre-illusionistic" styles in a critical environment where illusionism was ideologically charged? Such practices are incompatible with any single-standard theory of style, yet examples can be found in Chinese painting and become all but commonplace by the 17th century. This lecture will attempt to problematize the use of multiple art-historical references in Chinese painting and will query the historiographical and economic foundations of historical citation in early modern China.

Room 200, Old Art Gallery, 56 High Street

5:00 PM

John Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco - "Japan's Spirits of the State: An Inside Look at Yasukuni Shrine"

What motived over 80 senior politicians and 80 senior staff to make an official visit on October 19, 2004 to one of Japan's most controversial and important religious sites--Yasukuni Shrine? Although expressly prohibited by the postwar constitution, the current Prime Minister and his allies continue to make visits to express what they say is their "sincere desire for peace." But what else is going on at this site? John Nelson's talk will be accompanied by his new 25-minute film on the shrine made for university audiences. Using rare video footage from within the shrine--showing rituals carried out for spirits of the military dead, military personnel, and bereaved families--as well as exhibits from the shrine's museum of war memorabilia, we will explore just how the "invented traditions" of this Shinto shrine have served the interests of the Japanese state from 1868 to the present day.

Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:30 PM

Chi-hsiang Lee, Professor of History, Fo Guang University - "Confucius' Writing: The 'Gap' Between 'Omitted' and the 'Unwritten' in Spring and Autumn"

Please note this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:00 PM

Stephen Snyder, Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado at Boulder - "Disturbing Difference: Translation, Naturalization, and the Global Publication of Japanese Fiction"

Room 102, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

This presentation is based on field research conducted in a Taishanese linage village between the years 1997-2001. The talk interweaves conversations with Taishanese villagers with some of the theoretical concerns of contemporary Chinese social scientists. Using data from fieldwork in Taishan and data from recent Guangfu scholarship, this project seeks to articulate a dialectical relationship between Taishanese essence, being Taishanese, and discursive constructions of Guangfu culture.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

François Louis, Assistant Professor, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture - "China and Liao Ritual Paraphernalia"

With the foundation of the Liao state in the early tenth century, the Kitan became one of the major political forces in East Asia. While we have virtually no material record of the pre-dynastic Kitan, the new Liao aristocracy, right from the beginning, has left an impressive amount of the most sophisticated material relics, many of which were made by Chinese craftsmen and look Chinese. But recent discoveries also include ritual paraphernalia of a distinct Liao style. This lecture looks at some of the most striking of these latter artifacts, golden crowns, and discusses their design in relation to Kitan concerns about suzerainty and elite status, as well as national and ethnic identity.

Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:00 PM

Room 1, Anthropology, 158 Whitney Avenue (please note entrance is through the parking lot on Sachem.)

4:30 PM

Oct. 1

Anne Allison, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University - a Round Table Discussion about her research and new book, provisionally titled "Millenial Monsters" with University of California Press.

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

"English-Language Resources for Research on Chinese Topics"
presentations by

William Massa, Manuscripts & Archives, Sterling Memorial Library
Martha Smalley, Divinity School Library
Tao Yang, East Asia Library, Sterling Memorial Library

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

"Chinese Orphans: What Has Been Done vs What Can Be Done"
presentations by

Weihang Chen, Alliance for Children Foundation
Dr. Diane Kunz, Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy (Yale Ph.D.)

The session will cover the following topics:
United States and Intercountry Adoption - locating Chinese adoption within the overall framework of American adoption historically and today.

Chinese Adoption and Unparented Chinese Children - Where do the children in Chinese orphanages come from and where do they go? What orphans are left out of orphanages and why? What is the future of abandonment and adoption in China? What kind of care are orphans in China, as well as AIDS children, receiving? Where is the dividing line between governmental management and humanitarian support of unparented children in China?

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

Fall 2004 China Documentary Film Series

Showcasing Films from REC Foundation's REEL CHINA
Documentary Festival 2004

ALL SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 PM
AND HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For a PDF file of all film descriptions and more information regarding REC Foundation's REEL CHINA Documentary Festival, please CLICK HERE.

October 5

MARRIAGE
Director: Liang Bibo, 80 minutes, 1999

In a village in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province, marriage is still a matter carried out in a very traditional manner following the so-called “six procedures.” This film captures the story of two couples going through the marriage process over the period of nearly a year, from the first proposal to the actual wedding. The matchmaker stands out as an indispensable character throughout the nuptial process.

OLD YANG SEEKING WIFE
Director: Jiang Ning, Camera: Li Lie, 76 minutes, 2003

By the end of 2001, the number of senior citizens in Shanghai had exceeded 2.466 million, amounting to 18.58% of the total population, of which 980,000 were single. Statistics show that over 20% of single seniors had the will to seek a companion. According to one Chinese saying, young couples should accompany each other to old age. Unfortunately, not everyone shares this luck and for the aging population in China, loneliness is an ever-growing concern. This story follows a group of senior citizens in Shanghai. The protagonist of the story, Old Yang, is an ordinary elderly man who is suffering from an extreme sense of loneliness. This documentary film recounts Old Yang’s story in seeking a wife and depicts the reality of getting old in urban China. The story provides insights into the lives of senior citizens in China and their attitudes towards wedlock at old age.

October 12

DV CHINA
Director: Zheng Dasheng, 92 minutes, 2002

Since the early 90s, the villagers in Jindezheng, led by Zhou Yuanqiang, creative director of the local cultural center, have learned all the techniques of film production: script writing, casting, shooting, montage and even special effects. With great enthusiasm, they have already produced 18 serials even though they lack equipment and have a very limited budget. The energetic director Zhou Yuanqiang initiates a new challenge for his enthusiastic and amateur actors: their first Kung-fu serial. This documentary follows the production of the new serial and their difficulties in fund raising, resolving technical problems, and interpersonal relations amongst themselves.

DANCE WITH FARM WORKERS
Director: Wu Wenguang, Camera: Su Ming, 57 minutes, 2001

This film is about an unconventional performance named “Dance with Farm Workers.” The project involved not only 10 actors and dancers, but also 30 farm workers who came from poor regions of Sichuan Province and worked in construction sites in Beijing. The performance was initiated and organized by choreographer Wen Hui, artists Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, and Wu Wenguang. Both the rehearsal and the performance took place in a production hall of a former textile factory that was soon to be torn down as part of Beijing’s rapid modernization. These strong farm laborers, who came to the city after losing hope in their rural home towns, can be considered one of the supporting pillars of China’s modernization. At first, the farm laborers were only concerned about getting paid 30 Yuan a day for their efforts (approximately U.S. $3.60). Later they discover that the lowest of “the lower class” could be standing at center stage and making a statement.

October 19

SAN YUAN LI
Directors: Ou Ning and Cao Fei, 44 minutes, 2003 (Black & White)

This is a case study of a typical village-amid-the-city phenomenon in the process of the urbanization of Guangzhou presented by Ou Ning and Cao Fei under the commission of the 50th Venice Biennale. This work samples San Yuan Li Village. The crew penetrates San Yuan Li Village as “City Flaneur,” rethinking back into the depth of its history, the confrontation and reconciliation between the process of modernization, and the patriarchal clan system, as well as the rural community system in Guangdong. The bizarre architectures and views of humanity have been captured, all encapsulated into this black and white cine-poem.

TOWN MIGRATION
Director: Gou Xizhi, 94 minutes, 1999

Datong is a 2,000-year old ancient town. The municipal government intends to reconstruct the town which means that the locals on Herui Old Street will have to move as their houses are slated to be torn down. There are many reasons that the local people oppose this move, but most explain that they cherish the past of Herui Old Street and do not have enough money to build a new house. For local officials, migration and reconstruction are irreversible stipulations. The film depicts the see-saw battle between the government and town locals and presents a view of how common people strive for their own rights in an ancient town in China.

October 26

GRANDPA JING AND HIS OLD CUSTOMERS
Director: Shi Runjiu, 55 minutes, 2003

Grandpa Jing is about to celebrate his 87th birthday. He is the most constant man. For his entire life, he has lived in the Shishahai District - the heart of the old Beijing - where he has been a barber for 70 years. Before 1949, Grandpa Jing owned a small barber shop on the commercial street of Di’anmen. Today, in spite of his old age, he continues to cut hair and shave beards. Instead of working his scissors in the barber shop, he now offers in-house service for his customers.

THE EMPTY CAGE
Director: Jiang Zhi, 25 minutes, 2002

This film depicts the story of two ordinary days in Shenzhen, one day in which a peculiar little girl wanders in the city and the other in which the director tries to find her.

ABING IN 1950
Director: Qian Hengqing, 35 minutes, 2001

Abing (1893-1950) was a famous blind Chinese folk musician. Three months before his death in 1950, he had 6 pieces of his music recorded with a steel-wired recorder. The music was played by Abing himself, and the recording was achieved with the help of musician friends from his youth. Such a simple and short recording became a very important event in the musical history of China. One of the recorded pieces, The Two Springs Mirror the Moon, is now considered a classic. Created during the composer’s dozens of years of vagrant life, this work is regarded as the portraiture of Abing. In addition, this work is now performed by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and the Lyons Symphony Orchestra. When the great conductor Seiji Ozawa listened to the piece performed on the erhu, he couldn’t help but burst into tears and kneel down on the ground. In this documentary film, reappearance is adopted as a creative means to tell this hardly-known story from over fifty years ago of the only known recording taken during Abing’s lifetime.

WHO’S LISTENING TO MY SONG
Director: Mao Jie, 25 minutes, 2003

The rock-and-roll band “Stone” comes from Xinjiang, a distant province in western China. They came to Beijing in 1997 to try their luck in the music scene and have established themselves as one of the most vigorous and creative bands in China. They live a hard life by performing in Beijing’s underground bars. No matter how hard it turns out to be, they live an independent life.

November 9

THE SUN IN WINTER
Director: Zhao Gang, 76 minutes, 2002

By the end of 20th century, the political system in rural China was evolving towards “democratic” autonomy at the village level. This was after having undergone the countryside gentleman’s administration system, the baojia system, the local autonomy system, the people's commune system, and the household contract responsibility system respectively over the past centuries and millennia. It was winter during the Year of the Tiger when the revised Villager's Committee Organization Law was issued. Three thousand villagers of Dong Puo Village voluntarily elected village representatives to select the candidate for the Villager Committee. This film depicts a village in western China as a single case study, adopting the method of observing and recording events over a three year period. The film reflects the unique course of “democratic” autonomy that several hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers have encountered in the complex environment of rural politics, economy, and culture.

THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS
Director: Duan Jingchuan, 73 minutes, 2002

Mr. Lu Guohua is the managing official for the Family Planning and Birth Control Office in Fansheng Village whose major responsibility is to enforce the “one-child-policy.” This position is not easy and it often attracts hateful and vengeful acts from the villagers. Highly respected though, Lu has been in this position for fourteen years and has never run into any troubles other than the occasional fist fight. In 2001, Lu gets into trouble as a family member in his ward gives birth to a third child, thus violating the strict national and local regulations. Following the incident, his previously excellent relationship with the head of the village, Li Zhongqin, rapidly turns sour. That same year happens to be election year in Fansheng Village and a couple of tricks on the part of Lu, soon put an end to Li’s hopes for re-election for his fourth term in office.

November 16

LEAVE ME ALONE
Director: Hu Shu, 70 minutes, 2001

Ye and her sister, Yang, work in a karaoke night club while their friend, Massagal, is a massage girl in a “barber shop” which is frequented by male customers, few of whom are there for a haircut. This film tells the story of three young prostitutes in a southern city in China. Today, girls such as Ye, Yang, and Massagal are particularly despised and abandoned by society. They are regarded as a kind of commodity that can simply be bought with money. Nobody really cares about the future.

WALK-ON ROLES
Director: Zhu Chuanming, 75 minutes, 2002

This film depicts the life of a gang of young urban slackers. They proclaim themselves as movie walk-on roles, but always kill time in front of the gate of Beijing Film Studio. After “work,” they return to their rented and shabby shack on the outskirts of town and spend the nights flirting with naive girls, telling filthy jokes, playing cards, and watching videos. Li Wenbo, Bao Hehua, and Wang Gang dream of the success of their movies and the millions of dollars they might earn, but every time they think about their next meal or their rent, they sink into the stark reality of their situation.

November 23

ALONG THE RAILWAY
Director: Du Haibin, 98 minutes, 2001

It was winter of 2000 in Baoji City of Shanxi Province when this documentary was first shot. A group of waifs and strays are playing on the dump ground of the railway station. These new peripheral people of modern China come from all over the country. In the daytime, they wander in the city and in the evening they sleep along railways. To make a living, they glean and collect scraps or empty bottles to sell for a few bucks. Among them, Zhou Fu has drifted to Baoji City because he has lost his money and ID card; Li Xiaolong and Huo Hongchang escaped from a Detention Center for Street Kids; Xiao Yunnan had been maltreated by his former boss; Feng Xiang decided to run away from home because of a forced marriage imposed by his parents. They spend the first Chinese Lunar New Year in the new century as a big “family” reorganized along the railway.

November 30

OUT OF PHOENIX BRIDGE
Director: Li Hong, 90 minutes, 1997 - Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, Award of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 1997, Japan

Four girls from the countryside live in a tiny crammed room in Beijing. Long hours of hard work and miserable living conditions turn out to be the happiest years of their lives when they enjoy the most freedom. This prize-winning film follows their rising and falling hopes and dreams as they reluctantly return to the closed world of their hometowns and future husbands.

Fall 2004 Japan Film Series

RARE CLASSICS OF JAPANESE CINEMA
 
A series of films rarely shown in America
organized in conjunction with FILM 446a/JAPN 270a/LITR 384a

Prints courtesy of The Japan Foundation

ALL SCREENINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 PM
AND HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES

For a PDF file of complete film descriptions, please CLICK HERE.

A Pot Worth One Million Ryo
(Tange Sazen yowa: hyakumanryo no tsubo)

Directed by Yamanaka Sadao (1935, 16 mm)

A delightful samurai comedy by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao, the cinematic genius who died at the age of 28.

For more information, CLICK HERE.

Ino and Mon (Ani imoto)

Directed by Kimura Sotoji (1936, 35 mm)

A pinnacle of 1930s cinematic realism by the leftist filmmaker Kimura Sotoji.

For more information, CLICK HERE.

Sun Legend of the Shogunates
(Bakumatsu taiyoden)

Directed by Kawashima Yuzo (1957, 35 mm)

A comedy masterpiece voted the 5th best Japanese film of all time in 1999 by Japanese film critics.

For more information, CLICK HERE.