Jujiro (Crossways, Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1928)

Japanese master Teinosuke Kinugasa spins our senses in this heightened avant-garde blast of rampant symbolism, distorted architecture, deliriously subjective cinematography. Preceded by Short: KALEIDOSCOPE (c.1925) $12 Member/$14 Non-Member

Japanese master teinosuke kinugasa ("a page of madness") spins our senses in this heightened avant-garde blast of rampant symbolism, distorted architecture, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and deliriously subjective cinematography. Set in tokyo's red-light district of yoshiwara, jujiro is jidaigeki (period film) that blows apart the genre to tell the tragic story of a brother and sister caught up in a fever dream of menace, hysteria and sacrifice.
Live piano accompaniment bya href=http://www.silentfilm.org/festival2008-musicians.htmlstephen horne/a
cast: akiko chihaya, junosuke bando, misao seki, ippei sohma
dir: teinosuke kinugasa (1928, 80m)
35mm print source:a href=http://www.bfi.org.uk/british film institute/a special guest: stephen gong, executive director of center for asian american media
preceded by short: kaleidoscope (c.1925, 9m)
co-presented bya href=http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/center for asian american media/a
program length: 90m
admission price: $12 member/$14 non-member