World Premiere - “Chutaro of Banba” - Mabuta no haha: Banba no Chūtarō (瞼の母 番場の忠太郎)

World Premiere - "Chutaro of Banba" - Mabuta no haha: Banba no Chūtarō (瞼の母 番場の忠太郎)

Sunday, February 15, 2015 - 6:45pm to 8:15pm
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520

A world premier with English subtitles of a silent masterpiece by renowned director, Ingaki Hiroshi: Outlaw yakuza, Chūtarō, splits with his gang to look for the mother who abandoned him when he was a child in the sprawling metropolis, Edo (now Tokyo). There, modernity clashes with such traditional values as loyalty, and perhaps even with the bond between mother and her child. The screening will be accompanied with live music performed by the trio, Limbergino.


Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931 - 1969

Ever since the success of the French crime film Zigomar in 1911, the Japanese film industry has produced numerous movies depicting criminals and the detectives who try to apprehend them. Chivalric yakuza, modern mobsters, knife-wielding molls, hardboiled gumshoes, samurai detectives, femme fatales, and private eyes populate Japanese cinema, from period films to contemporary dramas, from genre cinema to art film, from the work of genre auteurs like Makino Masahiro to masters like Kurosawa Akira. Cinematic representations of crime have served in Japan to draw the boundaries of society and the nation, define the nature of reason and epistemology, shape subjectivity and gender, explore the transformations of modernity, and even express the desire for political transformation. Surprisingly, little of this rich lode of cinema has been introduced abroad. This series, co-sponsored with the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, will present some of the masterworks of Japanese gangster film, detective cinema, and Japanese noir, in subtitled archive prints that have rarely been seen abroad. The series will conclude with a symposium featuring an international panel of experts on Japanese crime film, and a world premiere screening of a newly struck English subtitled print of the classic gangster melodrama, CHUTARO OF BANBA. All films are in 35mm with English subtitles. This is the last of 10 films.

Co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and the National Film Center, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. With support from Films at the Whtiney & the Yale Film Studies Center
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