�gNippon Cinema Classics�h represents Japanese classic masterpieces. This year seven films are selected including a silent movie in 1920s and two ATG (Nihon Art Theater Guild) films in 1970s under the theme of �gnostalgia for home�h.

�EThe talk event will be held before a screening for about 30 mins.
�EPrograms and guests are subject to change without notice.
�EThe audience will receive special gift "NATTO" presented by Kodawariya-honpo Co., Ltd.

21October�iSun�j11:30�` Place: Theatre Cocoon Special Guest �F Yoshiko Sakuma��Actress�� Star of "A Story From Echigo", which will be screened on 23 October!

A Diary Of Chuji's Travels
(Chuji Tabinikki)
1927/ 95mins/ Nikkatsu Corp.

Director: Daisuke Ito
Cast: Denjiro Okouchi/ Hideo Nakamura

This legendary silent period masterpiece was a trilogy that has been lost for over 50 years, and moviegoers used to say that it was gone forever. Fortunately however, some portions of second part and most of third part were found in 1990s. This showing brings back the past in an abbreviated form by connecting the discovered segments.
The wanderer, Chuji Kunisada (Okouchi), who was always on the side of the common folks, is being chased by the followers of a feudal lord. And to make thing worse he is sick and getting sicker. . . . Chuji is caught between a rock and the hard place; what will become of him?!

Benshi (silent film narrator): Yoichi Inoue / Noritoshi Kashima
Music: The Band for Silent Films

Special Guest :Noritoshi Kashima ��Actor�� A young star challenges live narration! Also don't miss his classical Japanese dance! He plays a female role and dances.

Film from the National Film Center collections

Carmen Comes Home
(Carmen Kokyo ni Kaeru)
1951/ 86mins/ Shochiku Co., Ltd.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Cast: Hideko Takamine/ Shuji Sano/ Toshiko Kobayashi
22 Oct.�iMon�j16:00�`�@�@Place: Le Cinema�P

Keisuke Kinoshita directed this first full-color film in Japan. Carmen (Takamine) is a stripper who comes back to her hometown at the base of Mt. Asama with her buddy Maya (Kobayashi). Their flashy clothes and daring behavior creates a firestorm in the calm village. Can they put on a strip show for the villagers to commemorate Carmen�fs return?! Hideko Takamine, in a role unlike that seen in any of her other films, is lively minx, singing and dancing in this popular comic idyll.

Film from Shochiku Co., Ltd.

Jongara - Song of Tsugaru
(Tsugaru Jongara-bushi)
1973/ 103mins/ Saito Production, ATG

Director: Koichi Saito
Cast: Kyoko Enami/ Akira Oda/ Mihoko Nakagawa
22 Oct.�iMon�j19:00�`�@�@�@Place: Le Cinema�P

Isako (Enami) takes Tetsuo (Oda), a small time hoodlum, back to a poor fishing village in northern Japan. All Tetsuo does there is gamble away what little money Isako earns working a bar. With a few yakuza guys from Tokyo that he finds in the village, Tetsuo plans to take advantage of a blind girl Yuki (Nakagawa) who is attracted to him by selling her into prostitution . . .
The stormy Japan Seascapes and the melancholy tone of the Tsugaru shamisen is representative of Japan Art Theater Guild (ATG) style.

Guest�FTakehiro Nakajima ��Scenarists��

Film from the Japan Foundation

The Young
(Wakai Hito)
1937/ 81mins/ Tokyo Hassei Eiga Seisakusho

Director: Shiro Toyota
Cast: Den Obinata/ Haruyo Ichikawa/ Shizue Natsukawa
23 Oct.�iTue�j16:00�`�@�@Place: Le Cinema�P

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town.
Teacher Mazaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at the school, every time she causes problems because he feels sorry for her, a child born out of wedlock. Sumi (Natsukawa), one of Mazaki�fs colleagues and who is secretly in love with him, strongly disagrees with him about Keiko. Then Sumi hears a rumor that Keiko is pregnant with Mazaki's child . . . .

Guest�FAkira Onodera ��Actor�� He starred in the remake of �gThe Young�h made in 1977.

Film from the Japan Foundation

A Story From Echigo
(Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu)
1964/ 112mins/ Toei Co., Ltd.

Director: Tadashi Imai
Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma/ Shoichi Ozawa/ Rentaro Mikuni
23 Oct.�iTue�j19:00�`�@�@Place: Le Cinema�P

Known for his skillful realism, Tadashi Imai filmed Tsutomu Mizukami's novel by the same name.
A native of Echigo, Gonsuke (Mikuni), is working far from home, and envies his countryman Tomekichi (Ozawa) for his excellent reputation at work and his beautiful�@wife. Called back to his hometown when his mother falls seriously ill, Gonsuke is driven with lust and rapes Tomekichi�fs wife, Oshin (Sakuma).
Set in Oyashirazu as winter changed into spring, the enmity between the two men leads them and the woman tossed between the two to their irreversible fate.

Film from the Japan Foundation

Time Within Memory
(Seigenki - Toi Hi no Haha wa Utsukushiku)
1973/ 117mins/ Seigenki Production

Director: Toichiro Narushima
Cast: Takahiro Tamura/ Atsuko Kaku/ Hisano Yamaoka
24 Oct.�iWed�j16:00�`�@�@Place: Le Cinema�P

Toichiro Narushima, who first achieved prominence as cameraman, made his directorial debut with this film.
Minoru (Tamura) visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man (Fujiwara) who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother (Kaku).
A moving piece depicts the bond between a star-crossed mother and her child, set in a huge expanse of blue sky and sea.

Film from the Japan Foundation

Warming Up
(Matsuri no Junbi)
1975/ 117mins/ Soeisha, Eiga Dojinsha, ATG

Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Cast: Jun Eto/ Keiko Takesita/ Yoshio Harada
24 Oct.�iWed�j19:00�`�@�@Place: Le Cinema�P

Tateo (Eto) is working for cooperative bank in seaside town in Kochi and dreaming of going to Tokyo to make it big. However, in his daily life, his doting mother and his selfish lover, Ryoko (Takeshita), keep him in emotional agony. One day Tateo sleeps with a mentally unhinged girl who lives next door . . .
Director Kazuo Kuroki gives lively depiction of a frustrated young man�fs fantasies of the big city.

Guest�FYoshio Harada ��Actor�� He starred in this movie and he have also played roles in many masterpieces directed by Kuroki.

Film from Kawakita Memorial Film Institute