MIZOGUCHI and His Muse: Kinuyo Tanaka

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WOMEN OF THE NIGHT
(1948, 74min, Digital, with English Subtitles)


10/26 (Tue) @ 7:15pm
10/27 (Wed) @ 4:00pm
10/30 (Sat) @ 7:15pm

Two sisters—Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, having an affair with a narcotics smuggler—who along with their friend Kumiko descend into moral chaos amid the postwar devastation.

LIFE OF OHARU
(1952, 124min, 35mm, with English Subtitles)


10/25 (Mon) @ 7:15pm
10/26 (Tue) @ 4:00pm
10/28 (Thu) @ 7:15pm
10/29 (Fri) @ 4:00pm
10/31 (Sun) @ 3:00pm

A 1952 historical fiction starring Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyō lord who struggles to escape the stigma of having been sold into prostitution by her father.

SANSHO THE BAILIFF
(1952, 124min, 35mm, with English Subtitles)


10/25 (Sun) @ 4:30pm
10/28 (Wed) @ 4:30pm
10/30 (Sat) @ 4:15pm
10/31 (Sun) @ 12:30pm
11/1 (Mon) @ 7:15pm

When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders.

Miss Oyu
(1951, 94min, 35mm, with English Subtitles)


10/29 (Thu) @ 7:15pm
10/30 (Sat) @ 2:00pm
10/31 (Sun) @ 6:15pm
11/1 (Mon) @ 5:00pm

The story concerns a young man who falls in love with the beloved older sister of his intended bride, Miss Oyu played by Kinuyo Tanaka. The three-way relationship takes some tragic turns.

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