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Shorts Program: New Wave Rarities

1958-1960, 16mm, black & white, 78 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: National Film Archive of Japan

Three rare short films by artists who played a leading role in the birth of the New Wave: Conversation Between Nail and Socks (1958), the first self-produced work by the Nihon University Film Study Club, directed by Katsumi Hirano and Hiroo Ko; Forgotten Land (1958), a documentary portraying the poverty-stricken area of Honshu's northernmost region, directed by Shinkichi Noda, who led the Association of Documentary Filmmakers (Kiroku Eiga Sakka Kyokai); and Anpo Joyaku (1959) by Toshio Matsumoto, which captures the context of the 1960 Anpo Treaty and the whirlwind of debate surrounding it.

Shorts Program: New Wave Rarities introduction by Haden Guest and Go Hirasawa.

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