ACF 1693: The Films of Keisuke Kinoshita coming to Lincoln Center

The River Fuefuki (1960)

The Films of Keisuke Kinoshita

When: November 7-15, 2012

Where: Film Society of Lincoln Center, NY, NY

Universally considered one of the greatest Japanese directors, Keisuke Kinoshita, whose centenary we celebrate with this series, worked almost his entire career for Shochiku, the Japanese studio that also housed Yasujiro Ozu. Shochiku was that studio most devoted to what the Japanese call shomin-geki, stories of everyday life; yet while Ozu developed a rigorous, austere style that he perfected from film to film, Kinoshita was constantly changing, challenging himself to adapt to new subject matter and ways of storytelling.

Carmen Comes Home (1951)

The director of Japan’s first color feature film, the charming musical satire CARMEN COMES HOME, could move just a few months later on to the bold experimentation just a few months later of A JAPANESE TRAGEDY, a work whose jumbled timeframe and insertion of newsreel footage anticipates the modernist films of the Sixties. He made bold use of traditional Japanese art forms such as kabuki (THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA) and brush painting (THE RIVER FUEFUKI), but could just as easily indulge in a steamy melodrama (WOMAN).

For descriptions of each film, showtimes and tickets, click here.