Saturday, March 29, 2014 6:00 PM
Japan Society
333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017
Introduction by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival, and Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University. A special screening commemorating Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013).
Donald Richie on The Ceremony:
“One of Oshima’s most startling films–whole generations of a single family seen only during such ceremonies as funerals and weddings. With a big cast, luminous photography by Toichiro Narushima, music by Toru Takemitsu…. The 25-year period of postwar history, which somewhat resembles Oshima’s own early years, is seen as both personal and as an allegory of postwar Japan. Each ceremony is carefully timed to coincide with a year significant in the postwar history of Japan. Each marks a stage of a downward spiral, for it is the ‘spiritual death’ of Japan that Oshima is chronicling.” (Excerpted from Richie’s A Hundred Years of Japanese Film.)
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