SERIES
May at the Trylon
Although Tanaka was one of Japan’s earliest female directors, it is her on-screen performances that are the reason she is largely known today. Working with iconic Japanese directors, like Ozu and Mizoguchi, over three decades, she shaped a modern, subtle technique in contrast to the highly stylized performances that defined the era.
(1933, 100m, silent w/English subtitles) dir Yasujirô Ozu w/Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Kôji Mitsui, Sumiko Mizukubo. This gorgeously photographed gangster film follows Jyoji, a Tokyo hoodlum, (Oka), Kazuko (Mizukubo), and Tokiko (Tanaka) as they navigate the difficulties of a romantic triangle. Dragnet is unlike any other film that Ozu would make. He uses complex camera…
Screenings: May 8 7:00, May 9 7:00, May 10 3:00
(1948, 84m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Yasujirô Ozu w/Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chishû Ryû. When a traumatized soldier (Sano) returns home at the end of World War II, he brings the war home with him. When he discovers that his wife (Tanaka) became a sex worker to support herself and their son, his brutality is…
Screenings: May 8 9:00, May 9 9:00, May 10 5:15
(1954, 124m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Kenji Mizoguchi w/Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa. With power in the hands of a few feudal lords, one tenderhearted governor refuses an order and is sent into exile. Tamaki, his wife, (Tanaka) and their children are left to fend for themselves in a brutal imperial society. Sansho is…
Screenings: May 15 7:00, 9:30, May 16 7:00, 9:30, May 17 3:00, 5:30
(1958, 98m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Keisuke Kinoshita w/Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki. According to the traditions of a remote mountain village, when villagers turn 70 years old they must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. As Orin (Tanaka) reaches her time, she presses for her son…
Screenings: May 22 7:00, 9:00, May 23 7:00, 9:00, May 24 3:00, 5:00