US Premiere of The Hidden Blade @ the New York Film Festival!!
The US premiere of The Hidden Blade is opening “The Beauty of the Everyday: Japan’s Shochiku Company at 110” segment of the New York Film Festival. Yoji Yamada has spent his entire career at Shochiku. It is playing Saturday and Sunday, Sept 24th and 25th at 7pm and 6pm. You samurai and great classic film fans, like myself, should also pencil in four hours on Fri Sept 30 @ 6:30 pm or Mon Oct 3 @ 2:00 pm for a rare screening of The Loyal 47 Ronin. And Harakiri is playing again!
There is a whole list of Japanese movies that I haven’t heard of, including Akira Kurosawa’s Scandal. I will definitely be there to see that one. If I lived in NYC, I would probably watch every single one of these movies. Luckily, Philadelphia isn’t too far away.
Others that look good are: Three Outlaw Samurai, My Sons, Yasujiro Ozu’s A Story of Floating Weeds and Late Spring, Japanese Girls at the Harbor and Night and Fog in Japan. Check out the full schedule here.
