Monday | October 16, 2006 9:00 pm

A Ball at the Anjo House
(Anjo-ke no butoukai)

Screening on Film

Directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.
With Osamu Takizawa, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori.
Japan, 1947, 16mm, black & white, 88 min.

A family of noble lineage is stripped of its fortune and titles during the Allied Occupation's drive to democratize Japan in the aftermath of Japan's defeat in World War II. The Anjo family throws one last party the night before vacating their mansion, and family members, guests and servants all reflect on the changes they see pervading their homeland. Kozaburo Yoshimura's postwar masterpiece was recently featured in Susan Sontag’s touring program of Japanese film.

September 18 – November 27, 2006

Melodrama Mondays

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue