Synopsis:

The legend of Genji is a one thousand year-old story about an emperor's son, an attractive and charming young nobleman. Even though he has all the prerequisites for a happy life, including numerous affairs with a variety of girls, he is deeply unhappy. Secretly he yearns for the one woman whom he cannot have: his father’s concubine Fujitsubo. She feels the same about him, but nobody in the court must discover their relationship.

35 mm, b/w, 121 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 02.10.2012 AT 21:30

Monday 01.10.2012 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

In 19th century, Hanzo Aoyama is the owner of an inn for wealthy people in the small town of Magome situated between Kyoto and Edo. Aoyama is loyal to the cruel shogun Tokugawa and in return he has certain privileges. The emperor’s fight to gain back his throne will cause political and social unrest, which will result in war, and Aoyama’s position will become worse than ever…

35 mm, b/w, 143 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 02.10.2012 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

Otoku is a mother who is worried about her son Seiichi’s future. He is a student of law but is losing his interest in school, so the mother asks her brother, Bunkichi, who is married but has no children, to speak to his nephew. That is how Bunkichi finds out that the young man is secretly seeing a pregnant girl. Wanting to save his nephew’s promising future, Bunkichi takes responsibility for the unborn child.

35 mm, b/w, 111 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 04.10.2012 AT 21:00

Wednesday 03.10.2012 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

Towards the end of WW II, a young soldier named Miyauchi Kiyoshi is sent to the town of Izu. Looking for a place to stay, he learns that the town is full of refugees. The owner of a local inn offers to let him stay there with himself and his two unmarried daughters. The owners’ sister Okin disapproves of the arrangement, regarding it as inappropriate. Nevertheless, Miyauchi accepts the offer and moves into his new home…

35 mm, b/w, 74 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 04.10.2012 AT 19:00

Wednesday 03.10.2012 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This story takes place in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the last days of the Togukawa shogunate. After almost two centuries of isolation, the country slowly begins opening up to the West, which causes some major social changes which are explored through the main character. A Japanese peasant who had spent several years in America after his boat sank has now returned to his home country…

35 mm, color, 151 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 06.10.2012 AT 21:00

Friday 05.10.2012 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

A successful married poet decides to find a mistress. So he picks Kyoko, a young woman still in school. He sets her up in an apartment and visits her only occasionally, while also having a relationship with his divorced neighbor. After she accidentally gets pregnant, her lover insists on an abortion. After his death she comes to his funeral but is not welcome there either.

35 mm, color, 108 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 06.10.2012 AT 19:00

Friday 05.10.2012 AT 21:40

Synopsis:

This satire of Japan’s imperialist tendencies is illustrated through the character of Iheiji Muraoke, a pimp who combines his entrepreneurial spirit and patriotism by opening brothels for Japanese soldiers stationed all over Southeast Asia. In the beginning of the twentieth century, Iheiji Muraoka jumped off of a ship and ended up in Hong Kong. With no money or home, he starts to work as a barber’s apprentice. When the Japanese consulate sends him on a spy mission in Manchuria, he thinks of a br...

35 mm, color, 124 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 10.10.2012 AT 17:00

Sunday 07.10.2012 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

During WW II, jazz was banned in Japan as the music of the enemy, but after the war, during the American occupation, it became very popular and flourished. A Japanese band The Lucky Strikers plays in an American military music club. Each of the band members has his own musical and life story. The club’s owner recently lost his son Danny, thus it is forbidden to play the song Danny Boy…

35 mm, color, 123 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 09.10.2012 AT 19:00

Sunday 07.10.2012 AT 21:00