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10/26/2024

Join us at Yale tomorrow night (Saturday Oct 26) for a screening of Hayashi Kaizo's To Sleep So as to Dream (1986), a wonderful black and white film recalling the days of silent cinema, of benshi, and jidaigeki stars.
Alice Cinema (HQ L01), 320 York St.
7PM
81 minutes

09/25/2024

This Friday and Saturday at Yale, we will be enjoying a visit by the Japanese comedian Muramoto Daisuke. Muramoto, famous first as a member of the very successful manzai duo, Woman Rush Hour, later moved into political comedy and finally stand up. He is currently in New York training in English stand up. We will show I Am A Comedian, the documentary directed by Hyuga Fumiari about Muramoto's life and experience in the Japanese media world, which shuts out those who do political comedy. We will also have Muramoto do stand-up sets in both English and Japanese the evening before. Both are open to the public.

Stand-up Comedy by Muramoto Daisuke
September 27, 2024, 6pm, Hopper Cabaret
https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-09/japanese-stand-comedy-set-1
I Am a Comedian screening, with Q&A by Muramoto Daisuke
September 28, 2024, 7pm, Alice Cinema
https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-09/i-am-comedian-2022-film-screening

04/18/2024

COMIC LEGACIES ON THE JAPANESE SILVER SCREEN, with director Ogigami Naoko

As many of you know, we at Yale have been running a 13-film series of Japanese film comedies since February. The last event in the series will be this Saturday, April 20, 2024, and will feature the screening of two films and a panel discussion with two special guests.

7:00: Kamome Diner (かもめ食堂 , 2006)
directed by Ogigami Naoko
1h 42m, 35mm

8:50: Q&A and Panel Discussion featuring director Ogigami Naoki and NFAJ curator Tomita Mika, with Xavi Sawada and Aaron Gerow

10:00 Make Way for the Jaguars! (進め！ジャガーズ敵前上陸, 1968) (pictured)
directed by Maeda Yoichi
1h 23m, 35mm
World premiere of an English subtitled version made at Yale.

Location: Alice Cinema (L01), Humanities Quadrangle, Yale
Free and open to the public

https://ceas.yale.edu/events/double-feature-kamome-diner-2006-make-way-jaguars-1968-director-panel

I hope people in the vicinity can come and join us.

I also urge you to download the 20-page pamphlet for the series that the students and I prepared:
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ceas_film_series/3/

04/12/2024

Come to Yale this Saturday to see the penultimate night of films in Comedic Legacies of the Japanese Silver Screen. This time we will show the initial versions of two of postwar Japan's most popular comedy series: first, the initial film in the "Company President" series poking fun at corporate Japan; and second, Gambler's Luck, a preliminary version of the Tora-san series that also reflects Yamada Yoji's love of rakugo.
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/double-feature-nest-egg-1956-gamblers-luck-1966

04/05/2024

Great double feature this Saturday in our Comic Legacies on the Japanese Silver Screen series at Yale. The wild and crazy Noh gangster musical comedy Oh, My Bomb (Okamoto Kihachi) plus Sai Yoichi's award-winning zainichi comedy All Under the Moon.
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/double-feature-oh-my-bomb-1964-all-under-moon-1993

03/28/2024

Reminder that our Comic Legacies on the Japanese Silver Screen film series at Yale resumes this Saturday, March 30, at 7pm in HQ L01, with two films based on stories by Ibuse Masuji. Kawashima Yuzo's Room for Rent is one of my favorite Japanese comedies, but Shibuya Minoru's Doctor's Day Off is also a fascinating work.
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/double-feature-room-rent-1959-doctors-day-adventure-tokyo-1953

03/01/2024

The second night in our film series "Comic Legacies of the Japanese Silver Screen" will feature two of my all-time favorites: Yamanaka Sadao's Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo and Itami Mansaku's Akanishi Kakita. The first has the best sword fight parody in Japanese film history, the second, the best cat scene in Japanese cinema. Join us Saturday, March 2, in HQ L02 at Yale University, starting at 7pm.
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/double-feature-sazen-tange-and-pot-worth-million-ryo-1935-akanishi-kakita-capricious-young

02/23/2024

Comic Legacies on the Japanese Silver Screen begins this Saturday, February 24, 2024, at 7pm in the Alice Cinema! A rare program showing some of the classic comedies of Japanese cinema and featuring archival prints and a visit by director Ogigami Naoko. The series starts with films by Ozu Yasujiro, Makino Masahiro, and Saito Torajiro—and features slapstick ghosts and singing samurai! The series is co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the National Film Archive of Japan, and the Yale Film Archive, with support from the Japan Foundation. My students and I created a pamphlet that will be available for download from Saturday.
https://ceas.yale.edu/series-taxonomy/comic-legacies-japanese-silver-screen

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