Reminder - GODZILLA coming to Japan Society NY tomorrow!

Japan Society NY

presents

Godzilla (c) 1954 Toho Co., Ltd.

Godzilla / Gojira

Directed by Ishiro Honda

With Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura 

Japan 1954, 96 minutes 

DCP, b&w, in Japanese with English subtitles

When: Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:00 PM

Where: Japan Society NY

333 East 47th Street, NYC

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Tickets: $13/$10 seniors & students / $5 Japan Society members

NOTE: This screening is sold out.
However a waitlist will begin at 6:00 PM at the Box Office
Being on the waitlist doesn’t guarantee a seat, of course,
but it at least gives you a chance to see this fantastic film.

The seminal classic that introduced the world to kaiju eiga and everyone's favorite city-stomping radioactive monster.

Directed by Ishiro Honda, Godzilla provided the ultimate allegory for post-war nuclear anxiety through the story of a prehistoric sea creature rampaging through Tokyo after being awakened by underwater H-bomb testing.

A domestic box office hit that went on to enrapture international audiences and spawn over two dozen sequels and countless imitations, the original film still retains the power to inspire awe in its evocation of humanity's confrontation with the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation.

Related Event:
Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda
Wednesday, February 21, 6:30 PM

Special Offer: Save $2 on the Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda talk with your ticket purchase to this screening. To redeem, add both tickets to your cart and the discount will automatically be deducted. (No code necessary.)

"Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda" a talk by Steve Ryfle on February 21, 2018

Japan Society NY

presents

Photo Courtesy of Honda Film, INc.

Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda

A talk by Steve Ryfle

When: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 6:30 PM

Where: Japan Society NY

333 East 47th Street, NYC

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Tickets: $14/$11 Japan Society members, seniors & students 

Godzilla, Mothra, The Mysterians — Japan’s most celebrated monster movies and sci-fi classics were brought to the screen by filmmaker Ishiro Honda. A long-overlooked talent, Honda is now considered one of the most influential directors of Japanese cinematic history, wowing audiences with fantastical special effects while expressing the anxieties of Japan’s postwar reality.

At this talk, Steve Ryfle, noted scholar of Japanese science fiction cinema and author of Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, From Godzilla to Kurosawa, draws back the curtain on the man behind the monsters. Followed by a book signing reception.

Special Offer: Save $2 on the "Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda" talk, with your ticket purchase to the Godzilla film screening on February 2. To redeem, add both tickets to your cart and the discount will automatically be deducted. (No code necessary.)

GODZILLA coming to Japan Society New York on February 2nd, 2018

Japan Society NY

presents

Godzilla (c) 1954 Toho Co., Ltd.

Godzilla / Gojira

Directed by Ishiro Honda

With Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura 

Japan 1954, 96 minutes 

DCP, b&w, in Japanese with English subtitles

When: Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:00 PM

Where: Japan Society NY

333 East 47th Street, NYC

Map

Tickets: $13/$10 seniors & students / $5 Japan Society members

The seminal classic that introduced the world to kaiju eiga and everyone's favorite city-stomping radioactive monster.

Directed by Ishiro Honda, Godzilla provided the ultimate allegory for post-war nuclear anxiety through the story of a prehistoric sea creature rampaging through Tokyo after being awakened by underwater H-bomb testing.

A domestic box office hit that went on to enrapture international audiences and spawn over two dozen sequels and countless imitations, the original film still retains the power to inspire awe in its evocation of humanity's confrontation with the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation.

Related Event:
Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda
Wednesday, February 21, 6:30 PM

Special Offer: Save $2 on the Directing Godzilla: The Life of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda talk with your ticket purchase to this screening. To redeem, add both tickets to your cart and the discount will automatically be deducted. (No code necessary.)

Japan Society to screen Ishiro Honda's MATANGO on Friday, January 23rd

Matango © 1963 Toho Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People)

Directed by Ishiro Honda

With Akira Kobai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Tachikawa,

Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Miki Yashiro, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Japan, 1963, 89 minutes, 35 mm, color

In Japanese with English subtitles

When: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM

Where: Japan Society

333 East 47th Street

(Between 1st and 2nd Avenues)

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Tickets

Prolific director Ishiro Honda made Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People) 11 years after his iconic Godzilla. Like that famous kaiju film, Matango manages to be a highly entertaining genre film utilizing imaginative monster costumes while also engaging with social and moral commentary about contemporary Japan.

A group of rich Tokyo elites - the benefactors of the economic recovery of the 1960s - find themselves on a deserted island after their yacht is shipwrecked. As circumstances become increasingly difficult, the moralities of the characters are tested as they struggle to survive against the monstrous and radioactive mushroom species called “Matango” that infest the island.

Hallucinatory sequences, sexual tension and gripping suspense charge this colorful B-movie based on William Hope Hodgson’s 1907 short story “The Voice in the Night” (one of the stories printed in the anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV).

This 35mm print is from the collection of the National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

TICKETS $12/$9 Japan Society members, seniors & students
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Part of The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema