Japan Society Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Independent Film Company Shisso Productions with Online Retrospective that Includes their Latest 372-minute Documentary Epic Minamata Mandala
June 4–July 2
Japan Society announces Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara & Sachiko Kobayashi, a career-spanning online retrospective that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Shisso Productions, the independent film company founded by influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, Sachiko Kobayashi in 1971. The series includes nearly all of the pair’s films, including their most recent release, “Minamata Mandala”—a sprawling three-part epic 15 years in the making. All films will stream nationwide through Japan Society’s virtual cinema from June 4-July 2 with some films also available to stream in Canada.
Widely-recognized for their complicated and deeply personal portraits of iconoclastic individuals, Hara and Kobayashi’s work—hailed by documentary luminaries...
June 4–July 2
Japan Society announces Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara & Sachiko Kobayashi, a career-spanning online retrospective that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Shisso Productions, the independent film company founded by influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, Sachiko Kobayashi in 1971. The series includes nearly all of the pair’s films, including their most recent release, “Minamata Mandala”—a sprawling three-part epic 15 years in the making. All films will stream nationwide through Japan Society’s virtual cinema from June 4-July 2 with some films also available to stream in Canada.
Widely-recognized for their complicated and deeply personal portraits of iconoclastic individuals, Hara and Kobayashi’s work—hailed by documentary luminaries...
- 6/5/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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