Japanese Cinema EclecticsJapanese Cinema Eclectics

A multi-part series devoted to unexplored tangents of the Japanese film
Curated by Donald Richie
Sponsored by Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (TUJ)
Donald Richie - A Film Anthology
Wargames, 1962, 22 minutes. A gang of children and a goat, filmed on the coast of Chiba during a typhoon, with Tatsumi Hijikata as assistant director.
Atami Blues, 1962, 20 minutes. A pick-up and its consequences at the Atami hot springs, with music by Toru Takemitsu.
Boy with Cat, 1967, 5 minutes. A minimalist structural experiment with a boy, a cat, and a set of pornographic photos.
Dead Youth, 1967, 13 minutes. Based on a poem of Muturo Takahashi in which past and present, love and death, reflection and desires are woven together with transgression.
Five Filosophical Fables, 1967, 47 minutes. The best-known of Richie's films, this portmanteau package contains the celebrated Japanese family cannibal picnic and the exhilarating nude finale.
free entrance after 11 pm!

Japanese Cinema Eclectics
A multi-part series devoted to unexplored tangents of the Japanese film
Curated by Donald Richie
Sponsored by Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (TUJ)
Nov.15th (Wed.) at SuperDeluxe MAP
B1F 3.1.25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031, Japan
T: 03.5412.0515 | F: 03.5412.0516
open 19:00 | start 20:00 | 1500 yen
"Japanese Cinema Eclectics"
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https://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/news/specialevents/events_2006/20061115_icjs.html
This monthly series will feature relatively unknown but important Japanese avant garde films selected by Donald Richie, the former Curator of Film at the New York Museum of Modern Art in New York (1969-1973), and a renowned authority on Japanese film.
Donald Richie came to Japan in 1947 as feature writer for the Pacific Stars and Stripes.
After the end of the Occupation, he became film critic for The Japan Times and still continues with that paper as Arts Critic.
During the following years he wrote a number of books, including The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1965); Ozu (1974), and One Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2002).
In addition, he has written over forty books about the country in which he has been resident for nearly sixty years.
These include: The Inland Sea (1971), Japanese Portraits (1991), and his latest work, The Japan Journals: 1947-2004.
From 1968 to 1973 he was Curator of Film at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Named by TIME magazine,"the dean of Japan's arts critics," he is regarded as the preeminent authority on Japanese film.
Susan Sontag has said of him "Donald Richie writes about Japan with an unrivaled range, acuity, and wit."
* Contact Information
Temple University, Japan Campus
Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Address : 2-8-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047
Tel : 03-5441-9800 ext.709 (or 0120-86-1026)
E-mail : icjs@tuj.ac.jp
Website : http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/index.html