Japan’s Music Man Film Festival

The Japan Society presents "Umetsugu Inoue: Japan's Music Man" Film Festival

Details Date: December 16, 2018 iCal
Japan Society (map)
333 E 47th St
New York, NY 10017

Umetsugu Inoue: Japan’s Music Man

Travel via NYC Ferry to the Japan Society to see the Film Festival “Umetsugu Inoue: Japan’s Music Man”. Take NYC Fery’s East River, Astoria, Soundview or Lower East Side (LES) route to E. 34th St to the film festival, immersed in culture and music. 

A prolific and versatile filmmaker who worked across a wide range of genres throughout his long career, Umetsugu Inoue (1923-2010) made his mark at Nikkatsu Studios in the 1950s with a series of highly entertaining, genre-blending musical films that captured the explosive energy of Japan’s jazz-fueled youth culture. For this weekend film series, Japan Society is proud to present three of Nikkatsu’s newly-subtitled, full-color Inoue classics starring heartthrob (and so-called “Japanese Elvis Presley”) Yujiro Ishihara, the biggest male singing film star in postwar Japan.

“A director who had a big impact on Japanese and Hong Kong pop cinema… Inoue’s mix of music, action, and hot young talent became a template for a new genre, called Nikkatsu Action.” — Variety

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Japan Society
333 E 47th St
New York, NY 10017
Dec 15th-16th
2:15 PM