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Beginning his screen acting career at Nikkatsu Company in 1962, where he wiled away a decade in genre films, Tatsuya Fuji emerged as an international arthouse star thanks to his appearances in two scandalous, sexually explicit films by Nagisa Ōshima: 1976’s In the Realm of the Senses and 1978’s Empire of Passion, for which Ōshima won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. An icon of ’70s Japanese cinema later adopted by one of the country’s finest 21st-century filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, for whom he appeared in 2003’s Bright Future, Fuji will make a rare North American in-person appearance courtesy of Japan Society at Metrograph as we honor his lifetime of brilliant, boundary-pushing performances.
Tatsuya Fuji’s New York visit and appearance at Metrograph is courtesy of Japan Society.