CEAS Film Series
Life Of Oharu (Saikaku Ichidai Onna) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi(1952, 35mm, 144 minutes) Based on Saikaku Ihara’s novel, The Life of Oharu charts the tragic demise of Oharu, an attendant at the imperial court in 17th-century Japan. Japanese Film Masters: Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio NaruseThis series offers a rare opportunity to explore the work of three of the undisputed masters of Japanese cinema – Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse. All three directors got their start in the silent-era and worked prolifically throughout Japanese cinema’s two strongest periods:...
The Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies Program at Yale University are pleased to welcome to campus Renowned Chinese Film Director WU TIANMING and Producer LUO XUEYING for a special screening of THE KING OF MASKS 变脸, 91 minutes, 1996, 91 minutes, 1996 Chinese with English Subtitles Introduction Provided by WU TIANMING Q&A Session following the film with WU TIANMING and LUO XUEYING The King of Masks tells a tale steeped in ancient tradition, simultaneously challenging the sociosexual inequity still plaguing China today. On the streets of Szechuan Province in the 1930s...
SEOUL TRAIN - The gripping documentary by Incite Productions, Inc. into the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland This special screening of SEOUL TRAIN will be followed by a Q&A session with Director/Producer Jim Butterworth - Co-founder & Co-principal, Incite Productions, Inc.; M.B.A., Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Moderated by Dr. Jinhee Choi - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies at Yale SEOUL TRAIN, with its riveting footage of a secretive “underground railroad,” delves into the complex geopolitics behind this growing and...
High School Senior YearDirected by Zhou Hao, 2005 (95 min., English Subtitles)Free and open to the public.In the No.1 High School of Wuping County in western Fujian Province, 78 high school seniors have only one chance to advance to higher education, i.e. through taking the annual national entrance exam. Eighty percent of students in the school come from surrounding rural areas. Their parents tell them that if they don’t want to become farmers, the entrance exam to earn a higher education is their only chance to change their lives. The documentary records the hardworking, high-pressured, and...
– Free and open to the public. All films will be screened in DVD format in Chinese with English subtitles. Hill of No Return (无言的山丘) Directed by Wang T’ung (王童) (1992, 178 min)The period of Japanese rule over Taiwan is still a potent memory for its residents, as is evidenced by this drama set in the 1920s. In the story, a couple of brothers are lured away from their everyday lives to work at a Japanese-run gold mine in the town of Chiu-fen. One of them falls in love with the housekeeper for the mine’s brothel, the other develops a cozy relationship with his landlady, an enterprising widow....
For Every Minute That I Live, I’ll Enjoy the 60 SecondsDirected by Zhang Zhanqing , 2006 (85 mins., English subtitles) In the morning, he is an advertising agent. In the afternoon, he goes to an underground dance hall in order to seek spiritual and carnal comfort. In the evening, he becomes a complete alcoholic and sponges on his friends. That’s the life of a forty- year old man named Dagang who has been laid off. His mother cannot adapt to the fast-changing society and as a result, she suffers from mental illness. Dagang divorced for his pursuit of true love, but the economic hardship...
Part of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
Takamine is Okinawa’s most prominent filmmaker, famous for combining myth, magic, humor, realism, aesthetic experimentation and a strongly political stance to potently explore the history and identity of the Okinawan islands in the face of its two occupying powers, the United States and Japan. His complex use of the vanishing Okinawan language is particularly representative of his strategy to create a collage of the modern and the traditional, the indigenous and the foreign. He will present his most famous work, Untamagiru (1989, 35mm), which beautifully and satirically mixes the legend of...
Workshop for undergraduate and graduate studentsPart of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
Both films have English subtitles. Free and open to the public.Four Sisters from BaimaDirected by Zhang Tongdao, 2003 (68 min.)The Baima tribe is a Tibetan branch that still maintains a matriarchal system. The tribe had lived off the land by hunting and developing a lumber industry. In 1999, as a protective measure against disastrous flooding in the area where the Baima live, the government decided to blockade the mountain area and hunting was no longer allowed. This forced the tribe to change its traditional lifestyle. The four sisters in the documentary are blessed with talents like...
This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into three thematically-organized programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 years. All 16mm films are in Japanese* The Song of Stones (Toshio Matsumoto, 1963, 30 minutes) At Yukigaya 2 (Mako...
35mm screening of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (1949) introduced by Donald Richie. Screening followed by panel discussion with Donald Richie and faculty from EALL, Film Studies, and History. Part of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
Special Japanese Film ScreeningFireworks (Hana-Bi)Directed by Kitano Takeshi (1998, 35 mm, 103 min.) Hana-bi is the winner of Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1997, and features Takeshi Kitano as an ex-cop, whose guilt toward his deceased partner drives him to launch a ruthless revenge at yakuza. Hana-bi juxtaposes minimalist aesthetics with extreme violence, and is one of the most accomplished works by Kitano.
Lecture by Donald Richie followed by a screening of Mr. Richie’s experimental films at 8:00 PM.Lecture to take place in Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, followed by screening in Room 101, Linsly Chittenden Hall (63 High St.)Part of Japanese Experimental Film Series Special Event with Donald Richie
This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into three thematically-organized programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 years. Berlin im Winter (Ichiro Sueoka, 2003, 7 minutes) Endlish ist es Fruehling (Ichiro Sueoka, 2003, 2 minutes...
This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into three thematically-organized programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 years.X (Batsu, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Toru Takemitsu (1960, 15 minutes) Musashino (Yoiichi Takabayshi, 1963, 15...
Floating LifeDirected by Huang Weikai, 2005 (93 min., English Subtitles)The drastic economic disparity between rural and urban areas in contemporary China causes large numbers of the rural population to pour into cities. Chinese laws and regulations on the detention and repatriation of permitless “vagrants and beggars” in the cities have made these new migrants susceptible to punishment and discrimination. Originally coming from the rural Henan Province, Yang is a singer who ekes out a living by singing in the underground passages of urban business centers in the city of Guangzhou. Everyday...
Ordinary Heroes (千言萬語, Chin Yin Man Yu or Qian yan wan yu)Directed by Ann Hui Oh-Wah, 1998 (128 minutes)A tale of social struggle in 1980s Hong Kong, the story revolves around the real-life fight between the colonial government and the territory’s “boat people” — mainland fishermen and their families who lived on squalid houseboats in Hong Kong waters and were long refused permission to settle on dry land. The film centers on four people involved in the political activism of 1980’s who reflect on their turbulent past from the vantage point of the disillusionment of the 1990s. The story begins...
All Under the Moon (Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru)Directed by Sai Yoichi, 1993 (100 min, 35mm, English Subtitles)A resident Korean director humorously takes on Japanese discrimination and its object. Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information ...
Ho Yuk: Let’s Love Hong Kong (好郁,Hao yu)Directed by Yau Ching, 2002 (87 min) This drama chronicles the connections between life, lesbian love affairs, real estate, and Internet pornography as three women chase, seduce, resist, and fantasize about each other in a Hong Kong of the near future. The city is as false as it is real and provides the perfect setting for their games, secrets, screams, and tears. The city is dark and grubby—a cacophonous clash of technology, neon, cheap houses, sex, and food. Set amongst this startlingly crowded industrial city, the film primarily concerns Zero, who...
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