Monday | December 3, 2007 7:00 pm

The Pornographers
(Jinruigaku nyumon)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
With Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto.
Japan, 1966, 35mm, color, 128 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

In this wicked black comedy, harried pornographer Ogata lives with a widow vowed to chastity by the dead husband who she believes has been reincarnated as the voyeuristic carp in her aquarium. While Ogata lusts after the widow's daughter, the widow showers affection on her son. Imamura's camera peeps through windows and around screens as the film proliferates points of view, most famously that of the carp in its tank.

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 11–25

Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive

May 8–11

The Spring is Over (Prague 1970)