Masters Of Japanese Cinema

[GomiGirl]

[Taro Toporific]

Also if anybody is able to grab the graphics from the page I would appreciate it.. just want to tart up my thread..

June 26 (Sat.)
13:00 Osaka Elegy


June 27 (Sun.) 13:00 The Masseurs and a Woman
16:40 Kokoro

14:30 The Yellow Crow


:P

[Mulboyne]

"Osaka Elegy" is from the 30s so it ought to be a great chance to see a decent print. I think the other are late 40s/50s films that are in better shape.
"Osaka Elegy" ("Naniwa Elegy")also has one of the very first appearances by Takashi Shimura who, along with Mifune, was Kurosawa's muse. He appears in "Scandal" too. As does Shirley Yamaguchi who also appeared in Sam Fuller's "House of Bamboo" - a very good film looking at the post-war black market.
Shirley Yamaguchi was born in Manchuria. Although both parents were Japanese, she gets credited as "Li Hsiang-lan" in some of her J-flicks. Strange.
Haven't seen Yellow Crow. I'd be interested to hear about it.

[Mulboyne]

The second part of this series starts later this month

The Japan Foundation Film Series Part 2: When Masters Were Young -- 1960's. A Special Three-day Film Showings with English Subtitles

The schedule includes a special showing for AK of Yoshida's "Escape From Japan".

[Ptyx]