JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL CLASSICS Seijun Suzuki: Pop Visionary

 

The cult Japanese director who loved excess, Seijun Suzuki (1923–2017) left behind an impressive film legacy. His subversive genre films and visionary pop aesthetics inspired the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch. This small collection of Suzuki’s rarer works is presented in 35mm (Japanese language with English subtitles) from The Japan Foundation Film Library.
Presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney as a satellite event of the 2017 Japanese Film Festival.

YOUTH OF THE BEAST          FRI 6 OCT @ 7PM
1963 | M | 92 mins | Japan | D: Seijun Suzuki
A mysterious outsider plays rival yakuza bosses against each other, causing the Tokyo underworld to explode in a series of violent brawls.

FIGHTING ELEGY                    SAT 7 OCT @ 1.30PM
1966 | M | 87 mins | Japan | D: Seijun Suzuki
A young man is torn between his instinct to fight and his love for a village woman. Set in the 1930s when militarism was on the rise in Japan.

ZIGEUNERWEISEN               SAT 7 OCT @ 3.30PM
1980 | M | 146 mins | Japan | D: Seijun Suzuki
Suzuki’s surrealist film - named for the famed violin piece - is a dance of friendship and mortality between a university professor and a man he befriends.

Where: , National Film & Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton, ACT 2601 map
Prices: Free, but booking essential.

For more information:
National Film & Sound Archive
McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2601
Tel: (02) 6248 2000
enquiries@nfsa.gov.au

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