Japan Society NY
Presents
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| Oh, Bomb! © 1964 Toho Co., Ltd. |
Oh, Bomb! / Aa Bakudan
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
With Yunosuke Ito, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kazuo Suzuki,
Ichiro Arishima, and Chotaro Togin
Japan, 1964, 95 minutes, 35mm, b&w
In Japanese with English subtitles
When: Saturday, April 16th, 2016 at 4:30 pm
Where: Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, NYC
Toho new wave director Kihachi Okamoto tests the limits of the musical comedy in this experimental "rhythm film" that incorporates Japanese forms of "musical" performance such as naniwabushi and Buddhist chant, as well as direct references to West Side Story.
The zany revenge plot follows the great Japanese character actor Yunosuke Ito as an old-school yakuza replaced by his former underling. There's also a chauffeur with dreams of the big time and a sidekick who just loves dynamite, but what ties everything together is a musicality that extends to the editing rhythm of the film itself
Oh, Bomb! was given a roadshow presentation in 1964, in a double bill with Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes.
This screening of Oh, Bomb! is part of the 2016 Globus Film Series Japan Sings! The Japanese Musical Film
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