Japan Society Globus Film Series 2013, Into the Shintoho Mind Warp: Girls, Guns & Ghosts from the Second Golden Age of Japanese Film

Date: Feb. 27, 2013 – March 10, 2013

Time: 8 p.m.

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From the Japan Society website :

This year, the Globus Film Series offers a retrospective of rarely shown films produced from the late 1950s to the early 1960s by mercurial, pioneering Japanese film studio Shintoho. Founded in 1947 by employees of the Tokyo-based Toho Company during strike action (its name means "New Toho"), Shintoho promptly established itself as one of the major studios of the second golden age of Japanese cinema, specializing in low- (or no-) budget productions that have become absolute cult classics. Shintoho produced over 500 features during a 14-year period, spanning a wide variety of genres from crime-thriller series to the youth films and exploitation films known as ero-guro (erotic grotesque). This retrospective, curated by film critic Mark Schilling for the 2010 Udine Far East Film Festival, provides highlights of Shintoho's delightfully deranged output, from hard-hitting gangster movies to campy horror chillers and supernatural tales of mystery. All films are in Japanese with English subtitles. All shows are New York Premieres. Film descriptions by Mark Schilling.

Tickets to each screening: $12/$9 Japan Society members, seniors & students

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Ghost Story of Yotsuya
東海道四谷怪談 (Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan)
Wednesday, February 27, 8 PM
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Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
怪猫 お玉が池 (Kaibyo Otama-ga-Ike)
Friday, March 1, 7 PM
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The Horizon Glitters
地平線がぎらぎらっ (Chiheisen ga Giragira)
Saturday, March 2, 3 PM
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Vampire Bride
花嫁吸血魔 (Hanayome Kyuketsuma)
Saturday, March 2, 5:15 PM
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Flesh Pier
女体棧橋 (Jotai Sanbashi)
Saturday, March 2, 7:30 PM
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Death Row Woman
女死刑囚の脱獄 (Onna Shikeishu no Datsugoku)
Sunday, March 3, 5 PM
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Revenge of the Pearl Queen
女真珠王の復讐 (Onna Shinju-o no Fukushu)
Sunday, March 3, 7 PM
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Yellow Line
黄線地帯 イエローライン (Osen Chitai)
Sunday, March 10, 4 PM
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