Council on East Asian Studies Film Series: “The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday”

Event time: 
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on East Asian Studies Film Series presents:

“The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday”.

Director: Makino Masahiro

Ever since the success of the French crime film Zigomar in 1911, the Japanese film industry has produced numerous movies depicting criminals and the detectives who try to apprehend them. Chivalric yakuza, modern mobsters, knife-weilding molls, hardboiled gumshoes, samurai detectives, femme fatales, and private eyes populate Japanese cinema, from period films to contemporary dramas, from genre cinema to art film, from the work of genre auteurs like Makino Masahiro to masters like Kurosawa Akira. Cinematic representations of crime have served in Japan to draw the boundaries of society and the nation, define the nature of reason and epistemology, shape subjectivity and gender, explore the transformations of modernity, and even express the desire for political transformation. Surprisingly, little of this rich lode of cinema has been introduced abroad. This series, co-sponsored with the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, will present some of the masterworks of Japanese gangster film, detective cinema, and Japanese noir, in subtitled archive prints that have rarely been seen abroad. The series will conclude with a symposium featuring an international panel of experts on Japanese crime film, and a world premiere screening of a newly struck English subtitled print of the classic gangster melodrama, In Search of Mother

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public