THE DOCUMENTARIES OF SHOHEI IMAMURA

THE DOCUMENTARIES OF SHOHEI IMAMURA
(feat. "A Man Vanishes"!)
Friday, November 16th - Wednesday, November 21st




"Widely recognized today as one of the most important directors to emerge from the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, Shohei Imamura (director of Black Rain, Vengeance Is Mine and The Insect Woman) made films that were ribald, bawdy, and earthy, revealing and reveling in the underpinnings of Japanese society: not the code of the samurai or the rigor of the tea ceremony, but something more primal" (Harvard Film Archive.) While his work in the Sixties quickly gained recognition on the international festival circuit, box office success was not in the cards, and after the release of his groundbreaking 1967 fact-or-fiction docudrama A Man Vanishes, Imamura stayed his ground in the field of documentaries up through the mid-1970s. These works, while at times serene and mournful, dive into the darker side of Japanese life, and often deal with unresolved cultural issues stemming from the divide between the ancient code of honor and post-war guilt. Come discover these emotionally stirring works with us across a week's worth of Imamura documentaries, all screened from newly-subtitled, high-definition masters (including a run of A Man Vanishes!)



SCREENING SCHEDULE:

A Man Vanishes (1967)
Friday, November 16th - 7:30pm
Saturday, November 17th - 4:00pm, 10:00pm
Sunday, November 18th - 3:00pm (shown with The Pirates of Bubuan), 10:15pm
Monday, November 19th - 10:00pm
Tuesday, November 20th - 5:00pm
Wednesday, November 21st - 9:50pm

Karayuki-san, The Making of a Prostitute (1975)
Friday, November 16th - 10:20pm

The Pirates of Bubuan (shown with A Man Vanishes, 1972)
Sunday, November 18th - 3:00pm

In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand (1971) & Outlaw-Masu Returns Home (1973)
Wednesday, November 21st - 7:30pm