Japan film week at TIM

Japan film week at TIM

To commemorate its 15th anniversary, the Japan Cultural Center
will be showing a week of Kenji Mizoguchi's films free of charge
starting next Tuesday at Taman Ismail Marzuki art center, Central
Jakarta.

Six of Mizoguchi's works produced between 1936 and 1956 will
be shown during the retrospective film week. Most of the films
are about women and their struggles, a distinctive feature of
Mizoguchi's work.

The film week will also feature works from other Japanese
directors, such as Koichi Sato and Masayuki Suo, in order to
compare Mizoguchi's works with these younger directors, said Ikuo
Nishida, the director of the Japan Cultural Center.

Sato's film Tabi no Omosa (Journey into Solitude) was produced
in 1972, and Suo's Fancy Dance in 1990. (18)