Japanese Film Festival Singapore 2010

FILMS / FOCUS / JAPANESE NEW WAVE / A FLAME AT THE PIER
A FLAME AT THE PIER / 涙を、獅子のたて髪に			JAPANESE NEW WAVE
(C) 1962 Shochiku Co. Ltd.			> Good For Nothing > Bloody Thirst > A Flame At The Pier > Hogs And Warships > A Man Vanishes > Ototo
			FOCUS ON OSHIMA
			> Boy > Sing a Song of Sex > Sinner in Paradise > Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief
1962, 90 min, b/w, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, PG Directed by SHINODA Masahiro / 篠田正浩 Cast: TAKASHI Fujiki, MARIKO Kaga Print Source – JAPAN FOUNDATION			SCREENING
			21 Aug Sat - 2.00pm
Set in the docks of Yokohama, a young dock worker tries to break up a waterfront strike out of a misguided sense of loyalty to his crooked boss, but accidentally kills the union leader. A tale of suppressed passions and violence of youth, painted in the vital strokes of the Japanese New Wave: melodrama and poetry, blood and politics, rock 'n' roll. About the director: SHINODA Masahiro was born in 1931. Following his graduation from Waseda University, he entered Shochiku and worked as an assistant to Ozu Yasujiro. After the success of Oshima’s debut feature in 1959, he was invited to direct. watch the other films in this Focus on Japanese New Wave >> .
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Japanese Film Festival Singapore 2010 | シンガポール日本映画祭 2010 | August 19-29 | Gallery Theatre National Museum of Singapore