Past Events
Oshima Double Feature: Death by Hanging and Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
San Francisco Cinematheque screening
Friday, March 31, 7 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Two shows: 7 p.m. and 9:10 p.m.
Cost: $8 general; $5 members, students (with ID), disabled, seniors; CCA students admitted free
Info: 415.552.1990 or "www.sfcinematheque.org":http://www.sfcinematheque.org
Nagisa Oshima's films of the 1960s combine incisive political commentary and riveting psychosexual explorations with a radical Japanese New Wave aesthetic. At 7 p.m. San Francisco Cinematheque presents his early masterpiece Death by Hanging (1968), a Brechtian tour-de-force and one of the strongest indictments of capital punishment ever made on film. Based on an actual criminal case, the film tells the story of the execution of a Korean worker found guilty of rape as it denounces the oppression of Koreans in Japan and suggests that murder is the outcome of social repression. At 9:10 p.m. San Francisco Cinematheque screens Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969), a look into the sexual and cultural politics of young Japanese radicals of 1968 through the tale of a book thief/fetishist, with references to Japanese avant-garde theater, French political writing and cinema (Genet, Godard), and Muhammad Ali.
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