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

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 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

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