Friday | December 14, 2007 9:45 pm

A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
(Nippon sengo-shi: MadamuOmboro no seikatsu)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
Japan, 1970, 35mm, color, 105 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

Rather than an “official story” of Japan's postwar economic miracle, Imamura offers the pointed views of the resilient, lower-caste Madame Omboro, brilliantly contrasting the bar owner's story of her life with newsreel footage of major events from 1945 to 1970: from Japan's surrender at the end of WWII through U.S. occupation to student protests and the Vietnam War.

December 1 – 14, 2007

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

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