Mestres Japoneses Desconhecidos IV
Unknown Japanese Masters IV
The Stone and the Plot and programmer Miguel Patrício present the fourth edition of the Unknown Japanese Masters programme, which shows a new cycle of films never released or shown in Portugal.
The programme includes three titles: Image of a Mother (1959), by Hiroshi Shimizu, the last film in the director’s career of over thirty years, which tells the story of young Michio who recently lost his mother and who, with his father’s new marriage, feels the pressure to replace her with the new stepmother; Drained to the Bone (1966), by Tai Katô, a short story about the search for happiness set against the backdrop of a brothel, where exploitation and machismo reign; Yôko, The Delinquent Girl (1966), by Yasuo Furuhata, the filmmaker’s debut film, which follows a young woman with no direction who has fled the countryside for the city of Tokyo and who dreams of visiting Saint-Tropez, a sunny beach she saw on a going to the cinema.
The films will premiere at Cinema City Alvalade and for three weekends in NOS cinemas.
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