Countercultural new wave cinema from the 60s and 70s comes face-to-face with new experimental films in this investigation of youth and protest in Japan.
This edition of Jaeff, in partnership with The Japan Foundation, riffs off the Oxford Dictionaries word of 2017: ‘Youthquake’ – defined as ‘a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people.’
Taking place at Kings College, Close-up and the Barbican, London, we are presenting classic avant-garde films from the 1960s and 1970s that examine youth counterculture, the student movements, and general currents of dissatisfaction and rebellion. From ‘sun tribe’ delinquents in “Bad Boys”, psychedelic drag queens in “Funeral Parade of Roses”, and heat-of-the-battle political documentary “Forest of Oppression”, to surreal theatre troupes in “Diary of a Shinjuku Thief”.
Showing alongside these films are short experimental works from contemporary filmmakers and video artists that engage with life in present-day Japan.
Friday 21 September 2018
King’s College,...
This edition of Jaeff, in partnership with The Japan Foundation, riffs off the Oxford Dictionaries word of 2017: ‘Youthquake’ – defined as ‘a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people.’
Taking place at Kings College, Close-up and the Barbican, London, we are presenting classic avant-garde films from the 1960s and 1970s that examine youth counterculture, the student movements, and general currents of dissatisfaction and rebellion. From ‘sun tribe’ delinquents in “Bad Boys”, psychedelic drag queens in “Funeral Parade of Roses”, and heat-of-the-battle political documentary “Forest of Oppression”, to surreal theatre troupes in “Diary of a Shinjuku Thief”.
Showing alongside these films are short experimental works from contemporary filmmakers and video artists that engage with life in present-day Japan.
Friday 21 September 2018
King’s College,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Jaeff is ready to disclose the last event of our lineup, the opening night gala taking place on Friday 21 September at King’s College, Lucas Lecture Theatre (Strand Campus)!
We’re excited to open this year’s festival with an exclusive screening of Ko Nakihara’s feature debut Crazed Fruit – one of the first Japanese New Wave films and a fitting tribute to the recent passing of acting legend Masahiko Tsugawa.
This film will be paired with a short experimental piece, Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat, by award winning artist Yamashiro Chikako.
Jaeff welcomes you to join us for this exciting weekend, to discover (or rediscover) classics and innovative contemporary works that resonate with themes of youth culture and social protest in Japan.
A reminder that tickets for Saturday 22 September at the Barbican and Sunday 23 September at Close-Up are already on sale – early booking is advised.
Friday 21 September 2018 – King’s College,...
We’re excited to open this year’s festival with an exclusive screening of Ko Nakihara’s feature debut Crazed Fruit – one of the first Japanese New Wave films and a fitting tribute to the recent passing of acting legend Masahiko Tsugawa.
This film will be paired with a short experimental piece, Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat, by award winning artist Yamashiro Chikako.
Jaeff welcomes you to join us for this exciting weekend, to discover (or rediscover) classics and innovative contemporary works that resonate with themes of youth culture and social protest in Japan.
A reminder that tickets for Saturday 22 September at the Barbican and Sunday 23 September at Close-Up are already on sale – early booking is advised.
Friday 21 September 2018 – King’s College,...
- 8/12/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
There are many names that come to mind when one looks back at the Japanese New Wave era: Nagisa Oshima, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Shohei Imamura, Masahiro Shinoda, and many, many more. The movement truly began with the adaptation of Shintaro Ishihara’s novel Crazed Fruit, released with the same name by director Ko Nakahira in his 1956 film. The film would kickoff a movement, a collective stream of films that juxtaposed a time in Japanese history where the traditional society of Japan clashed with the coming of a more contemporary way of living. The American occupation ended in 1952, bringing forth a difficult period for the Japanese individual and the struggle for the realization of purpose in a changing country.
One cannot discuss the Japanese New Wave without Hiroshi Teshigahara and his collaborations with Japanese writer Kobo Abe and composer Toru Takemitsu. Teshigahara didn’t make many films during this period of extreme...
One cannot discuss the Japanese New Wave without Hiroshi Teshigahara and his collaborations with Japanese writer Kobo Abe and composer Toru Takemitsu. Teshigahara didn’t make many films during this period of extreme...
- 9/1/2015
- by Anthony Spataro
- SoundOnSight
The Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection will take place for the 14th time from May 27 to June 1, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. The biggest festival for Japanese film worldwide will present more than 130 new productions in six days, with many German and European premieres. Many filmmakers from Japan are again expected as guests. We can already allow a first peek at some of the highlights of the program: director and script writer Yosuke Fujita, winner of the Nippon Cinema Award in 2008 (for Fine, Totally Fine), will personally present his new comedy Fuku-chan Of Fukufuku Flats, which was co-produced – among others – by German distribution label Rapid Eye Movies and Third Window Films from London. This year's Nippon Retro is dedicated to director Ko Nakahira (1926-1978), whose films can still excite cinema fans with their modern imagery. After taking his first steps as an assistant of such legends as Akira Kurosawa and Kaneto Shindo,...
- 2/3/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
The Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection will take place for the 14th time from May 27 to June 1, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. The biggest festival for Japanese film worldwide will present more than 130 new productions in six days, with many German and European premieres. Many filmmakers from Japan are again expected as guests. We can already allow a first peek at some of the highlights of the program: director and script writer Yosuke Fujita, winner of the Nippon Cinema Award in 2008 (for Fine, Totally Fine), will personally present his new comedy Fuku-chan Of Fukufuku Flats, which was co-produced – among others – by German distribution label Rapid Eye Movies and Third Window Films from London. This year's Nippon Retro is dedicated to director Ko Nakahira (1926-1978), whose films can still excite cinema fans with their modern imagery. After taking his first steps as an assistant of such legends as Akira Kurosawa and Kaneto Shindo,...
- 2/3/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Branded to Kill is among the Nikkatsu films to be screened.
The BFI will showcase a month long London film festival tribute to Japan's legendary Nikkatsu Studios during the month of June. Below is press release information:
The oldest of Japan’s film studios, Nikkatsu was established in 1912 as the Japan Cinematograph Company (Nippon katsudo shashin kaisha). Home to ‘father of Japanese cinema’ Shozo Makino, it fostered early directors like Kenji Mizoguchi, Daisuke Ito and Tomu Uchida, until restructuring of the industry by the wartime government in 1942 saw its production facilities hived off to form the new Daiei Corporation, with Nikkatsu surviving only in an exhibition capacity.
In 1954, Nikkatsu resumed production, rising phoenix-like under the guidance of studio head Kyusaku Hori to carve out a unique identity in the highly competitive market of the postwar Golden Age. Its breakthrough came with the 1956 double whammy of Takumi Furukawa’s Season of...
The BFI will showcase a month long London film festival tribute to Japan's legendary Nikkatsu Studios during the month of June. Below is press release information:
The oldest of Japan’s film studios, Nikkatsu was established in 1912 as the Japan Cinematograph Company (Nippon katsudo shashin kaisha). Home to ‘father of Japanese cinema’ Shozo Makino, it fostered early directors like Kenji Mizoguchi, Daisuke Ito and Tomu Uchida, until restructuring of the industry by the wartime government in 1942 saw its production facilities hived off to form the new Daiei Corporation, with Nikkatsu surviving only in an exhibition capacity.
In 1954, Nikkatsu resumed production, rising phoenix-like under the guidance of studio head Kyusaku Hori to carve out a unique identity in the highly competitive market of the postwar Golden Age. Its breakthrough came with the 1956 double whammy of Takumi Furukawa’s Season of...
- 5/21/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Below you will find a list of movie that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has never seen. Not long ago Wright went out and asked his friends and fans to recommend some movies they thought he may have missed over the last thirty years of his life. He got recommendations from Quentin Tarantino, Daniel Waters, Bill Hader, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Greg Mottola, Schwartzman, Doug Benson, Rian Johnson, Larry Karaszeski, Josh Olson, Harry Knowles and hundreds of fans on this blog.
From these recommendations, Wright created a master list of recommended films that were frequently mentioned. The director now wants the fans to choose which of the films on the list he should watch on the big screen.
Wright is holding a film event at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles called Films Edgar Has Never Seen.
From these recommendations, Wright created a master list of recommended films that were frequently mentioned. The director now wants the fans to choose which of the films on the list he should watch on the big screen.
Wright is holding a film event at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles called Films Edgar Has Never Seen.
- 10/18/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Edgar Wright's latest epic project [1] has him partnering with Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Bill Hader, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Greg Mottola, Harry Knowles, Rian Johnson and, probably, several of you. Like all of us, Wright has a bunch of classic and cult films he's never seen. Unlike all of us, he has the means to see them for the first time on the big screen and will do just that in December [2] at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles during Films Edgar Has Never Seen. The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World asked both his famous friends (some of which are listed above) and fans to send in their personal must see lists and, from those titles, Wright came up with one mega list from which he'll pick a few movies to watch December 9-16. After the jump check...
- 10/18/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses: Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial was a sidebar at this year's New York Film Festival that Dan Sallitt, writing a couple of weeks ago, found "so exciting that it threatens to overshadow the main slate: a retrospective of the Japanese studio Nikkatsu, whose opportunistic shifts of focus always seemed to open doors for some of Japan's most creative filmmakers. Compare film magazine Kinema Junpo's 1999 and 2009 lists of all-time greatest Japanese films to the Lincoln Center series schedule, and count the overlaps." Last year in the Notebook, Dan reviewed one of the 37 films in the series, Tomu Uchida's Earth (1939).
"The sidebar is peppered with nearly impossible to see rediscoveries," notes Steve Dollar at GreenCine Daily: "early silent films like 1927's A Diary of Chuji's Travels and harshly realistic World War II dramas like Mud and Soldiers. Shot on location in China in 1939, the latter film blends...
"The sidebar is peppered with nearly impossible to see rediscoveries," notes Steve Dollar at GreenCine Daily: "early silent films like 1927's A Diary of Chuji's Travels and harshly realistic World War II dramas like Mud and Soldiers. Shot on location in China in 1939, the latter film blends...
- 10/16/2011
- MUBI
A studio's logo can sometimes be just as iconic as the beloved films produced and distributed under such an emblem. Think of the glitz and glamor of the MGM logo as the lions roars; The mighty peak of Paramount; the spinning globe of Universal -- all Hollywood staples. And as we move to the east, to Japan, the kaleidoscopic heavens of Toho, the great crashing wave of Toei, and... a wood panel with the carving of an encircled K (or is that a subtle blending of an N and a K?). Though Nikkatsu Corp. has had their fair share of more epic looking logos, this minimalist carving seems to be synonymous with some of their most famous offerings: Kô Nakahira's Crazed Fruit (Japan's own Rebel...
- 9/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Michelle Williams-starring biopic about phenomenal actress-singer Marilyn Monroe, "My Week with Marilyn", is set to be premiered at the New York Film Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced on Thursday, August 4 that the movie will have its special screening on Sunday, October 9 during the event.
On why they chose to include "Marilyn" in the prestigious festival, Richard Pena, selection committee chair and program director of the society explained, "After seeing Marilyn Monroe so often portrayed in films as a caricature, it is a pleasure to see this complex personality and unique on-screen presence portrayed so well by such a talented actress Michelle Williams."
Directed by Simon Curtis, "My Week with Marilyn" is based on Colin Clark's diaries, in which he documented the interaction between Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier during the making of 1956's movie "The Prince and the Showgirl". The film chronicles a week...
On why they chose to include "Marilyn" in the prestigious festival, Richard Pena, selection committee chair and program director of the society explained, "After seeing Marilyn Monroe so often portrayed in films as a caricature, it is a pleasure to see this complex personality and unique on-screen presence portrayed so well by such a talented actress Michelle Williams."
Directed by Simon Curtis, "My Week with Marilyn" is based on Colin Clark's diaries, in which he documented the interaction between Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier during the making of 1956's movie "The Prince and the Showgirl". The film chronicles a week...
- 8/5/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
It’s not a war! It’s just killing.
We’re just about halfway through August and in some parts of the world kids are getting ready to go back to school, a lot of vacations have run their course and folks are already making plans for Labor Day. In other words – summer is almost over! (That is, in the northern hemisphere…) So for this week’s Eclipse column, I figured I better find a summer movie to review while there’s still time. And I’ve landed on the perfect choice: Nagisa Oshima’s Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, from Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties. Besides the obvious seasonal theme indicated in the title, I figure this is a good title to review for a few other reasons.
Judging from the accounts of recent acquisitions I’ve seen from last month’s Barnes & Noble sale, the Oshima box...
We’re just about halfway through August and in some parts of the world kids are getting ready to go back to school, a lot of vacations have run their course and folks are already making plans for Labor Day. In other words – summer is almost over! (That is, in the northern hemisphere…) So for this week’s Eclipse column, I figured I better find a summer movie to review while there’s still time. And I’ve landed on the perfect choice: Nagisa Oshima’s Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, from Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties. Besides the obvious seasonal theme indicated in the title, I figure this is a good title to review for a few other reasons.
Judging from the accounts of recent acquisitions I’ve seen from last month’s Barnes & Noble sale, the Oshima box...
- 8/9/2010
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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