Sunday | December 9, 2007 7:00 pm

Stolen Desire
(Nusumareta yokujo)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
With Osamu Takizawa, Hiroyuki Nagato,Yoko Minamida.
Japan, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 92 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

Stolen Desire, Imamura's film debut, can be seen as a ribald, contrarian reworking of Ozu's A Story of Floating Weeds. An idealistic director quits school to join a traveling theater troupe and finds himself trapped in a love triangle between the leading player's wife and her younger sister. Imamura has claimed the disillusioned protagonist was modeled after himself.

December 1 – 14, 2007

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco

November 21–December 14

Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100