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Screening as part of the second ACA Cinema Project series Flash Forward: Debut Works and Recent Films by Notable Japanese Directors, Japan Society is proud to present an in-person focus on two of the last three surviving works by master filmmaker Sadao Yamanaka, beautifully restored in 4K. A contemporary of Ozu and Naruse, Yamanaka died at the age of 28, leaving behind a small but acclaimed body of work. Imbued with an impassioned humanism, Yamanaka’s innate storytelling abilities—which shift effortlessly between comedy, drama and tragedy—helped modernize the jidaigeki, crafting entire living communities that laugh, drink and suffer in an everyman’s world.
In collaboration with the National Film Archive of Japan.