POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA: HOW TO REMEMBER/FORGET THE WAR?

Special Screening

Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦)

Dir. Imamura Shohei/今村昌平, 1961, 108min

Date/Time/Venue: APRIL 15^th, Monday, 4:30pm, Rm 127

NOTE: please write to Ma Ran to learn about how to loan the DVD.

watch this very short clip where Tony Rayns talks about Imamura & Pigs and Battleships

WEEK 2*APRIL 19^th Lecture

 

Password for the downloads: I told you in class(a*f)

Required Reading:

Cardullo, R. (2013). Vengeance was his: The post-war cinema of Japan’s Shohei Imamura. 
Asian Cinema, 24(1), 37–49.

NOTE: FOR MA

Desser, David. (1988). Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to The Japanese New Wave Cinema, Bloomington: Indiana University Press:58-62
NOTE: I think both BA and MA should read this.

Richie, Donald. (2009). “Imamura Revisited.” Film Quarterly 63 (1): 44–49. 
NOTE: for both BA & MA

Film for Reference: Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker, Dir. Paulo Rocha, 1995