Japan Society NY
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Mandala / Mandara
Directed by Akio Jissoji
Starring: Shin Kishida, Ryo Tamura, Koji Shimizu,
Akiko Mori, and Hiroko Sakurai.
Japan, 1971, 135 minutes
DCP, color and b&w, in Japanese with English subtitles
When: Saturday, February 22nd at 1:00 pm
Where: Japan Society NY
333 East 47th Street, NYC
Tickets: $14/$11 seniors, students & persons
with disabilities/$10 Japan Society members
Jissoji’s second feature addresses the despondency and confusion of Japan’s post-’68 youth through the divergent responses of two former anti-state student activists confronted by a menacing primitivist utopian cult invested in rape and agriculture. Referencing a range of contemporary political discourses and filmmaking practices—including the experimental arthouse of the New Wave and the radical pink “eroductions” of peers like Koji Wakamatsu—Mandala finds Jissoji continuing his investment in highly stylized and contentious material while also offering pointed criticism of the era’s excesses.
Part of Akio Jissoji: The Buddhist Trilogy film series
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