Street of Violence (Boryoku no machi)

Street of Violence (Boryoku no machi)

Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 6510

Street of Violence (Boryoku no machi)
Directed byYamamoto Satsuo, 1950 (35mm, English subtitles)

The Urban Jungle: The Modern City in Japanese Film
Long favored by an urban audience, the Japanese cinema has continued to explore the city as part of a larger question of what constitutes Japanese modernity. These three films, rarely screened outside Japan, share narratives of urban streets filled with jazz and violence, love and hope, frustration and protest, but offer varied stances and programs for dealing with both the city and perhaps its artistic correlate, the cinema. All Screenings have English subtitles.

Organized in Conjunction with FILM 446a/JAPN 270a “Japanese Cinema before 1960”. Prints courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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