Starts 13th April.
Under the title „Hachimiri Madness – Japanese Indies from the Punk Years”, the fsk cinema is showing a series of newly digitised and subtitled Japanese 8‑mm films from 1977 to 1990 which breathe the rebellious spirit of that era. Many of the highest profile directors Japan has to offer today made their debut features in this format – very few of them have ever been shown internationally. The series was jointly curated by Keiko Araki (PIA Tokyo), Jacob Wong (Hong Kong Film Festival) and Christoph Terhechte (Berlinale Forum).
The series includes Sion Sono’s I am Sion Sono!!, in which the then 22-year-old introduced himself to audiences as a punk poet in nonchalant, self-confident style, and Shinya Tsukamoto’s The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo, a hugely creative, wild cyberpunk drama, whilst also taking in the largely unknown early works of directors such as Sogo Ishii (today Gakuryu Ishii), Masashi Yamamoto, Nobuhiro Suwa and Shinobu Yaguchi.
In Yamamoto’s anarchic feature debut Saint Terrorism, a girl in a pink and yellow outfit shoots innocent people at seeming random with a gun concealed in her white handbag, with the bodies being carried off by the uniform-wearing members of a cult. Yaguchi’s wonderfully melancholy The Rain Women has two women ride their bikes through a convenience store, wear out countless umbrellas whilst wandering through the soggy landscape and warble “Singing in the Rain” dressed as a J‑Pop duo. And in Suwa’s gangster ballad Hanasaseru Gang, it’s hard to escape the impression that Pierrot le fou has wandered into the Japan of the early 80s.
Dates:
14.04.17 (Good Friday)
16.00 Saint Terrorism – Masashi Yamamoto, 1980, 127 min
18.30 Isolation of 1⁄880000 – Sogo Ishii, 1977, 43 min
High-School-Terror – Macoto Tezka, 1979, 6 min
UNK – Macoto Tezka, 1979, 15 min
20.00 Hanasareru Gang – Nobuhiro Suwa, 1984, 85 min
21.45 A Man’s Flower Road – Sion Sono, 1986, 110 min
15.04.17 Saturday
16.00 Happiness Avenue – Katsuyuki Hirano, 1986, 93 min
16.04.17 (Easter Sunday)
16.00 I Am Sion Sono!! – Sion Sono, 1984, 37 min
Tokyo Cabbageman K – Akira Ogata, 1980, 59 min
17.04.17 (Easter Monday)
16.15 The Rain Women – Shinobu Yaguchi, 1990, 72 min
All the dates below beginn at 18.00:
20.4. Isolation of 1⁄880000 – Sogo Ishii, 1977, 43 min
High-School-Terror – Macoto Tezka, 1979, 6 min
UNK – Macoto Tezka, 1979, 15 min
21.4 Hanasareru Gang – Nobuhiro Suwa, 1984, 85 min
22.4. I Am Sion Sono!! – Sion Sono, 1984, 37 min
Tokyo Cabbageman K – Akira Ogata, 1980, 59 min
23.4. Happiness Avenue – Katsuyuki Hirano, 1986, 93 min
24.4. The Rain Women – Shinobu Yaguchi, 1990, 72 min
25.4. A Man’s Flower Road – Sion Sono, 1986, 110 min
26.4. Saint Terrorism – Masashi Yamamoto, 1980, 127 min
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