Boston - Japanese Film Festival in April
The Brattle Theater in Cambridge is having a Japanese film festival in April titled "No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action in 60s Japan.
From the website:
"The label said it all: Nikkatsu akushon. Nikkatsu was a studio that had been around since the silent days and akushon was "action," written in the katakana syllabary for foreign words. During their peak, Nikkatsu Action films evoked a cinematic world neither foreign nor Japanese. It was a mix of the two, where Japanese tough guys had the swagger, moves, and even the long legs of Hollywood movie heroes. It was a place where the Tokyo streets, Yokohama docks, and Hokkaido hills took on an exciting, exotic aura, as though they were stand-ins for Manhattan, Marseilles, or the American West. Where one guy with guts, smarts, and a pair of quick fists could beat a whole gang of baddies.
Although Nikatsu director Seijun Suzuki has risen to Western cult fame, foreign critics still dismiss most of the films of his studio colleagues as hack work, despite having seen so few of them. The aim of this retrospective series, first presented at the 2005 Udine Far East Film Festival, is not to challenge the critical consensus but to provide opportunities for the discovery of new classics of Japanese genre cinema that may stand alongside those already enshrined in the critical canon."
In addition to these films, they are showing other Japanese films including Mothra.
Mothra is playing twice on Saturday April 19, and I think it would be cool if we could get some Skullbrainers together and take over the place
Follow it with some burgers at Bartleys?
Anyone interested?
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