After the success of the Kiyoshi Kurosawa retrospective, The Film Library programs a new series of works from the Japan Foundation. On this occasion, is dedicated to one of the great masters of the golden age of Japanese cinema, less known than Ozu and Mizoguchi, but considered by both as a referent. His films were always marked by great sensitivity, a luminous naturalism and a prodigious staging. Known for filming outdoors and in locations spread across the country, he always showed in his stories a deep interest in the less represented: for the kids, working women, travelers and people on the margins.
The cycle brings together a selection of essential titles that allows us to go through various stages of his filmography, from one of his best-known silent films to one of his last films, directed in the decade of the 50. On Thursday 12 of February, before the screening of Japanese Girls at the Harbor with live music, we inaugurate the cycle with Alejandro Rodríguez, cap coordinator of the Japan Foundation in Madrid, i Pablo García Canga, film-maker, film critic and author of this beautiful text about Shimizu (which you can read in full on our website).
18.02.26 WEDNESDAY / 20.00 h Presentation of the cycle by Pablo García Canga, filmmaker and critic, i Alejandro Rodríguez, cap coordinator of the Japan Foundation in Madrid.
Musical accompaniment on the piano by Arcadi Valiente.
20.02.26 FRIDAY / 18.00 h Musical accompaniment on the piano by Arcadi Valiente.
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Japanese girl at the port / Minato no nihon musume
HIROSHI SHIMIZU. The Japan. 1933. . B/N. 78′. 16 mm.
Int. Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ranko Sawa, Urea Egawa, Tatsuo Saito, Yasuo Nanjo, Yumeko Aizome..
Sunako i Daura, friends from a girls' school in Yokohama, they are in love with Henry. Leaving Dora aside, Henry starts paying more attention to Sunako, until he begins to frequent a gang of criminals and a woman named Sheridan Yoko.
