Lecture/Screening class (3 hours)
Lecture with Tom Vick, Curator of film at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution.
This fractured film noir is the final provocation that got Seijun Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu Studios, simultaneously making him a counterculture hero and putting him out of work for a decade. An anarchic send-up of B movie clichés, it stars Jo Shishido as an assassin who gets turned on by the smell of cooking rice, and whose failed attempt to kill a victim (a butterfly lands on his gun) turns him into a target himself. Perhaps Suzuki’s most famous film, it has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and John Woo.
Part of In Focus: Japanese Film Classics at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
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Lecture with Tom Vick, Curator of film at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution.
This fractured film noir is the final provocation that got Seijun Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu Studios, simultaneously making him a counterculture hero and putting him out of work for a decade. An anarchic send-up of B movie clichés, it stars Jo Shishido as an assassin who gets turned on by the smell of cooking rice, and whose failed attempt to kill a victim (a butterfly lands on his gun) turns him into a target himself. Perhaps Suzuki’s most famous film, it has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and John Woo.
Part of In Focus: Japanese Film Classics at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
Lecture/Screening class (3 hours)
Lecture with Tom Vick, Curator of film at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution.
This fractured film noir is the final provocation that got Seijun Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu Studios, simultaneously making him a counterculture hero and putting him out of work for a decade. An anarchic send-up of B movie clichés, it stars Jo Shishido as an assassin who gets turned on by the smell of cooking rice, and whose failed attempt to kill a victim (a butterfly lands on his gun) turns him into a target himself. Perhaps Suzuki’s most famous film, it has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and John Woo.
Part of In Focus: Japanese Film Classics at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
read more
Lecture with Tom Vick, Curator of film at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution.
This fractured film noir is the final provocation that got Seijun Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu Studios, simultaneously making him a counterculture hero and putting him out of work for a decade. An anarchic send-up of B movie clichés, it stars Jo Shishido as an assassin who gets turned on by the smell of cooking rice, and whose failed attempt to kill a victim (a butterfly lands on his gun) turns him into a target himself. Perhaps Suzuki’s most famous film, it has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and John Woo.
Part of In Focus: Japanese Film Classics at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
show less
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