Saturday | October 16, 1999 9:00 pm

Monday | October 18, 1999 7:00 pm

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
(Toda-ke no kyodai)

Screening on Film

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu .
With Miecko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino.
Japan, 1941, 16mm, black & white, 105 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.

This film, the first made in collaboration with Yushun Atsuta, who would become Ozu’s regular cameraman, was a great critical success. An account of the tensions which arise when a widow and her daughter move in with a married son, the film would also be Ozu’s first box-office hit. Shot during the war, the film found a receptive audience in the Japanese public which had been subjected to suffering, separations, and losses of its own.

October 1 – 30, 1999

Ozu: Poet of the Everyday

April 2–May 11, 2004

Yasujiro Ozu.
A Centennial Celebration

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