Masumura/Wakao Retrospective in Oita
Oita, Japan. Not a hot bed of cinematic activity. There are only two small cinemas in the downtown area, and they show pretty much only foreign films. You occasionally get a Japanese film but usually by the time I notice they've come, they've gone. I've caught this one in time, but will I actually make it to a screening?
The Cinema 5 is running Yasuzo Masumura movies all week long, specifically ones fro the '60s that star Ayako Wakao. They are: A Wife Confesses (1961), Seisaku's Wife (1965), Irezumi (Tattoo) (1966), and Red Angel (1966). Irezumi is the one I really want to see, a revenge film with a script by Kaneto Shindo (director of The Naked Island). The only problem is it's only playing late Wednesday night, and I have to get up early on Thursday for a kanji test.
School or Ayako? Good grades or hot tattoos? Sleep or, well, less sleep? If I make it to the theater, you'll know it by the review posted here.
Go to the movie man! You know you want to!
Here in D.C. one of the galleries is having a Asian film series, and they feature a bunch of Nakdai stuff. I recently saw Harakiri. Good stuff!
Posted by: Harvey | July 10, 2008 at 08:10 AM
I ended up not going. I wish I had but I was up early Thursday morning to study and take a test. Harakiri is indeed a great movie. Good luck in DC, by the way!
Posted by: Adam | July 10, 2008 at 05:42 PM