fbpx

Viewing events: Suzuki Seijun Retrospective Tour

The Japan Foundation, Toronto is proud to celebrate the centennial of legendary Japanese filmmaker, Suzuki Seijun, with a Canada-wide retrospective tour of his prolific body of work. Starting from April through to September, cinematheques from across the country will be participating in the retrospective with rare screenings of Suzuki’s films from his five-decade-long career, all in glorious 35mm print!

All rare 35mm prints were imported from the Film Library of the Japan Foundation’s headquarters in Tokyo.

Touring program curated by Dr. William Carroll, the author of Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. 

Viewing events: Suzuki Seijun Retrospective Tour

The Japan Foundation, Toronto is proud to celebrate the centennial of legendary Japanese filmmaker, Suzuki Seijun, with a Canada-wide retrospective tour of his prolific body of work. Starting from April through to September, cinematheques from across the country will be participating in the retrospective with rare screenings of Suzuki’s films from his five-decade-long career, all in glorious 35mm print!

All rare 35mm prints were imported from the Film Library of the Japan Foundation’s headquarters in Tokyo.

Touring program curated by Dr. William Carroll, the author of Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. 

August 6

Suzuki Seijun: Kagero-za (35mm Screening)

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron’s deceased wife.

August 5

Suzuki Seijun: A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (35mm Screening)

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

August 5

Suzuki Seijun: Tokyo Drifter (35mm Screening)

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

August 4

Suzuki Seijun: Carmen From Kawachi (35mm Screening)

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move into Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

August 4

Suzuki Seijun: Satan’s Town & Love Letter (35mm Screening)

A notorious murderer Oba escapes from jail. Hayasaki, the Oba’s right hand, tries to get the money by manipulating the horse racing to send Oba to Hong Kong. But Oba has a plan to avenge the police officer who arrested him and to rob a bank again.