Dandy Sashichi Detective Story – Six Famous Beauties(人形佐七捕物帖 妖艶六死美人) & The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate(幕末太陽傳)

Dandy Sashichi Detective Story – Six Famous Beauties(人形佐七捕物帖 妖艶六死美人) & The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate(幕末太陽傳)

Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 6510

Dandy Sashichi Detective Story – Six Famous Beauties
人形佐七捕物帖 妖艶六死美人[英語字幕付]

1956 Nakagawa Nobuo

Watching Dandy Sashichi Detective Story: Six Famous Beauties, one can hardly believe that director Nakagawa Nobuo began his career predominantly as a director of slapstick comedies for Tōhō Studios before WWII. The film was directed during a now famous stint at the short-lived Shintōhō studio, in which Nakagawa created a run of graphic horror movies culminating in what is largely believed to be his masterpiece, Jigoku. While Six Famous Beauties is not nearly as grotesque or disturbing as some of Nakagawa’s later films for that studio, it is a decidedly mysterious thriller set during the Edo Period (1603 – 1868) amidst an otherworldly backdrop.

The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
幕末太陽傳[英語字幕付]

1957 Kawashima Yuzo

Considered by many to be one of the great Japanese films of all time, and the representative film of director Kawashima Yuzo, Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate brings a light, comedic touch to the period film. Borrowing from the repertoire of rakugo performance, it tells the story of Saheiji who is waylaid at a brothel, where he turns confusion to his advantage while working off his bill.

The Sword and the Screen: The Japanese Period Film 1915-1960
Rare Samurai Films From the Collection of the National Film Center, Tokyo
A series of rare Japanese samurai films from the collection of the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, which highlights the abundant variety of Japan’s most famous genre. There are social critiques, melodramas, comedies, ghost films and even musicals, directed by some of the masters of Japanese cinema who, in part because they worked in popular cinema, have rarely been presented abroad. The series is the first time Japan’s national film archive has cooperated with a non-Japanese university. All films are in 35mm with English subtitles.

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Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the National Film Center, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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Japan