Something Like It (の・ようなもの) Film Screening

Something Like It (の・ようなもの) Film Screening

Sunday, March 5, 2023 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Room L02, Humanities Quadrangle See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, 1981.
 
103m, Japan

The film depicts a strange love triangle between a fledgling young performer of rakugo (Japanese traditional comic stories) in training, Shintoto, a sex worker he meets as a guest, and a high school girl who belongs to a rakugo club.


The commercial feature debut of Yoshimitsu Morita (famous for Family Game), Something Like It is also considered one of the best films depicting the world of “rakugo,” Japan’s traditional form of comic storytelling. This film is being shown as a pre-event for Verbal Arts of Japan, a live event on March 30 featuring rakugo performers.

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