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

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

April 9

The Dutchman by André Gaines

April 11–25

Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive

May 8–11

The Spring is Over (Prague 1970)