The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale is excited to announce the beginning of our spring 2015 Japan film series “Lone Wolves & Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969” This series, co-sponsored with the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, will present ten masterworks of Japanese gangster film, detective cinema, and Japanese noir, in subtitled archive prints that have rarely been seen abroad. The series will conclude with a symposium featuring an international panel of experts on Japanese crime film, and a world premiere screening of a newly struck English subtitled print of the classic gangster melodrama, “Chutaro of Banba” (Mabuta no Haha). The series kicks off on January 22nd with the film “Stray Dog”, and concludes on February 15th with the world premiere and closing symposium. We would love to have you join us! If you could forward the event information to anyone who may be interested, it would be greatly appreciated. Full event information is included below for your convenience, and the event poster and film brochure is also attached. SCHEDULE: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC All screenings begin at 7:00 PM in the Auditorium of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, unless otherwise noted. All films 35mm prints in Japanese with English subtitles. JANUARY 22 Stray Dog (1949, Kurosawa Akira) JANUARY 24 The Road to Hell (1959, Kurahara Koreyoshi) & A Certain Killer (1967, Mori Kazuo) FEBRUARY 1 Police Officer (1933, Uchida Tomu) & The Red Peony (1969, Katō Tai) FEBRUARY 12 The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday (1941, Makino Masahiro) & The Last Gunfight (1960, Okamoto Kihachi) FEBRUARY 14 A Fugitive from the Past (1965, Uchida Tomu) FEBRUARY 15 Wolf, Pig, and Man (1964, Fukasaku Kinji) at 4:00pm & Chutaro of Banba (1931, Inagaki Hiroshi) at 6:45pm *World premiere of English subtitled print* With live musical accompaniment by Limbergino Followed by a symposium at 8:30pm with: Yomota Inuhiko - Visiting Researcher, Kyoto University of Art and Design Ōsawa Jō - Curator, The National Film Center, Tokyo Phil Kaffen - Assistant Professor, New York University Moderated by Aaron Gerow, Professor, Yale University Co-Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and The National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo with support from Films at the Whitney & Film Studies Center ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html