Evento

Seijun Suzuki: KAGERO-ZA on 35mm

Sun Apr 24 | 3:00 pm

Second of the Taisho trilogy

According to film critic Tony Rayns, Kagero-za may well be Suzukis finest achievement outside the constraints of genre filmmaking. In this hallucinatory adaptation of work by the Taisho era writer Kyoka Izumi, a mysterious woman named Shinako invites Matsuzaki, a playwright, to the city of Kanazawa for a romantic rendezvous. While Matsuzaki is on his way, his patron Tamawaki appears on the train, claiming to be en route to witness a love suicide between a married woman and her lover. Matsuzaki suspects Shinako is Tamawakis wife, and the trip to Kanazawa may spell his doom. As in Zigeunerweisen, reality, fantasy, life, and afterlife blend together in Kagero-zamost spectacularly in the grand finale, in which Matsuzaki finds his life morphing into a deranged theatrical extravaganza. --- Smithsonian Institute

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Co-presented with Northwest Film Forum
35mm prints!

Part of Action, Anarchy and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective

On the occasion of the publication of Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki by Tom Vick, the Grand Illusion Cinema and Northwest Film Forum are pleased to present a touring retrospective of Suzukis films. Series curated by Tom Vick, curator of film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, and co-organized with the Japan Foundation.