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Black and white photo of three Japanese people in uniforms, a woman in the middle and two men on either side, smiling past the camera

A Hero of Tokyo

In just over an hour of tautly paced, plot-filled action, Shimizu unspools the tragic generational tale of Kenichi, a boy whose backsliding father abandons him.

At a seaside dock, two Japanese women in modern clothes and hats look at a woman in traditional geisha clothes and parasol

Japanese Girls at the Harbor

Hiroshi Shimizu’s most celebrated silent film—about the jealousy that ensnares devoted Catholic school mates Sunako and Dora as they both fall for the motorcycle-sporting playboy Henry—screens with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on 5/4.

A black and white image of a group of six Japanese women looking left off-screen, the womanin front leaning her elbow on a table, all look serious

Forget Love for Now

This devastating story of a single mother Oyuki who supports herself and her son Haruo by working at a “chabuya,” a hostess bar catering to foreigners, is set in the cosmopolitan harbor city of Yokohama.

A woman stands between a man and woman as they look at each other and exchange a glass of milk

A Woman Crying in Spring

Shimizu’s first talkie enacts another tale of fallen womanhood and migrant struggle.

A man sits in a restaurant looking concerned at a laptop screen open in front of him.

I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

On May 5, see this engrossing dark comedy from Mexican director Fernando Frías, based on the novel by acclaimed writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, followed by a Q&A with Frías.

A black and white photo of a man in a cap polishes the side of the front wheel of a bus while a woman closely clutching her coat looks on.

Mr. Thank You

Screening 5/5, Hiroshi Shimizu's beloved road movie fashions a tour of depression-era Japan that deserves mention in the company of Ford’s Stagecoach and Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange. 

Fertile Memory

Prismatic Ground kicks off its fourth edition with the Belgian Film Archive restoration of this mournful, poetic glimpse of everyday life in the occupied West Bank.

A long-blonde-haired woman in a gray sweater looks up at a man with short dark hair in a gray suit in a modern-looking room with blue neon lights
The Beast

The Beast

Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.

A black and white photo of three Japanese boys in white caps sitting forlornly with their chins in their hands on the edge of a house's front porch.

Children in the Wind

In Shimizu’s most renowned and adored film in Japan, the idyllic country life of two brothers is suddenly thrown into crisis one summer when their father is wrongly arrested for embezzlement. Screens Friday, 5/10.

A number of colorful puppets, best known as Muppets, stand in front of a night-time New York City skyline.
The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Kermit the Frog and the Muppets take the show to Broadway in this classic comedy directed by Frank Oz, screening 5/11 and 5/12 for its 40th anniversary, with Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!

A black and white photo of two Japanese women leaning against a wooden pole and looking hopefully into the camera from a high angle.

Sayon’s Bell

Shimizu's film draws on the then widely circulated story of a 17-year-old Taiwanese aboriginal girl whose patriotic zeal so gripped her that she drowned amid a storm while seeing off her Japanese teacher for the Chinese front.