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 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

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