“I can say with absolute conviction that no Japanese filmmaker makes a movie without being aware of the existence of Shinji Sômai. I'm sure your movies will make the audience think “This is the movie I was waiting for”. To anyone who wants to see a movie that has the power to change and hold their lives, lynste that sees the films of Sômai.” The words of Ryusuke Hamaguchi - the Japanese director of the moment thanks to Drive My Car or evil does not exist - account for the wide influence of Sômai on the 21st century Japanese cinema. Practically unknown to the West, and death prematurely in 2001 as 53 years, Sômai was the great Japanese director of the eighties and ninety, Following the collapse of the study system. His imprints are present in Hamaguchi movies, but also of Hirokazu Koreeda, Iwai. The Japan Foundation and the Filmoteca present the first cycle dedicated to Valencia to this innovative filmmaker. A selection of seven of his thirteen films showing Sômai's ability to experience, playing with different styles and cultivating various genres, From pop films like Sailor Suit and The Machine Gun to Roman Porn (Love Hotel), passing through the genre that frequented the most, el seishun eiga (Joves cinema). En Dreamy Fifteen, P.P. Rider and Typhoon Club portrays the turbulence of adolescence with a unique sensitivity and the rites of passage to the adult world. And does it in a unique style, characterized by its master's sequence plane use. Sômai long prey explore the time, the movement and bodies in an exquisite and vibrant way, transmitting to the viewer the heartbeat.
25.03.25 TUESDAY / 20.00 h
26.03.25 WEDNESDAY / 18.00 h
Taylor
Typhoon Club
Shinji Sne Shinji. The Japan. 1985. VOS SPANISH. Color. 115′. DCP.
Int. Youki Kudoh,Tomokazu Miura, Yuichi Mikami, Shigeru Benibayashi, Saburo Date.
Un grup d’estudiants de secundària es refugia al seu institut durant un potent tifó. Mentres dura la tempesta, els adolescents mostren les tensions, desitjos i inseguretats que han anat sorgint entre ells els dies previs.
