by Chris MaGee
The 12th Annual Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival has announced that they will be screening nine classic and contemporary Japanese films as part of their 100 Years of Nikkatsu: Inventions and Challenges” retrospective.
As many of you know Nikkatsu is Japan’s oldest movie studio having been founded in 1912, and the roster of directors that have worked for the studio over its 96 year history reads like the holy pantheon of Japanese cinema: Shozo Makino, the grandfather of the Japanese film industry, Akira Kurosawa got his start at Nikkatsu, Japanese New Wave legends Shohei Imamura and Seijun Suzuki of course, and onto contemporary bad boy Takashi Miike. As many of you will also know that due to diminishing audiences in Nikkatsu spent most of the 70’s producing only roman porno films, many of which have now been showing up on DVD as part of the resurgence of interest in exploitation films; so with that kind of storied past the folks at Puchon certainly have a lot to choose from.
The line up for the retrospective will include everything from Sadao Yamanaka’s 1934 film “Priest of Darkness” to the most recent film by Tomoyuki Furamaya “Naoko-Winning Runners” with a lot of Jo Shishido, Akira Kobayashi and of course roman porno in between. For a full listing of films check out the link above.
The 12th Annual Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival has announced that they will be screening nine classic and contemporary Japanese films as part of their 100 Years of Nikkatsu: Inventions and Challenges” retrospective.
As many of you know Nikkatsu is Japan’s oldest movie studio having been founded in 1912, and the roster of directors that have worked for the studio over its 96 year history reads like the holy pantheon of Japanese cinema: Shozo Makino, the grandfather of the Japanese film industry, Akira Kurosawa got his start at Nikkatsu, Japanese New Wave legends Shohei Imamura and Seijun Suzuki of course, and onto contemporary bad boy Takashi Miike. As many of you will also know that due to diminishing audiences in Nikkatsu spent most of the 70’s producing only roman porno films, many of which have now been showing up on DVD as part of the resurgence of interest in exploitation films; so with that kind of storied past the folks at Puchon certainly have a lot to choose from.
The line up for the retrospective will include everything from Sadao Yamanaka’s 1934 film “Priest of Darkness” to the most recent film by Tomoyuki Furamaya “Naoko-Winning Runners” with a lot of Jo Shishido, Akira Kobayashi and of course roman porno in between. For a full listing of films check out the link above.
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