Japan Society’s THE OTHER JAPANESE NEW WAVE: RADICAL FILMS FROM 1958-61 Looks To Do Rare Post WWII Films Justice
Japan Society is advancing a new film series next month with The Other Japanese New Wave: Radical Films from 1958-61. Author and researcher Go Hirasawa is curating the series which kicks off its slate of unearthed shorts and features from Japan’s bygone era of post-WWII cinema from April 5th through April 27th. With its inception in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the New Wave movement in Japan ushered in a postwar generation of politically engaged and artistically adventurous filmmakers that radically transformed the country’s cinema in theory and practice. Looking beyond internationally lauded figures such as Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, this 11-film series aims to re-examine this dynamic moment in Japanese film history with the introduction of work by lesser-known studio directors, independent auteurs, documentarists and student filmmakers that gave birth to the New Wave, including newly subtitled rarities never-before-seen in the U.S. Hirasawa’s own statement at the […]