Sun Feb 16
6.30pm , 3.00pm
6.30pm , 3.00pm
Eros + Massacre
film
Heroic Purgatory
This event took place Feb 15 - Feb 16, 2020
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
Yoshishige Yoshida
Japan
1970
1h 58m
About
** Introduction by program curator Aaron Dean! **
The work of Kiju Yoshida is one of Japanese cinema’s obscure pleasures. A contemporary of Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses) and Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower, Assassination), Yoshida made his directorial debut at age 27. In the decades that followed he produced more than 20 features and documentaries, yet each and every one has proven difficult to see in the English-speaking world — until now.
Heroic Purgatory, produced under the aegis of Japan’s legendary Art Theater Guild, pushes the dazzling cinematic language of Yoshida’s Eros + Massacre even further, presenting a bleak but dreamlike investigation into the political discourses taking place in early-’70s Japan.
Description and images courtesy of AGFA.
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大島渚首（絞死刑、愛のコリーダ）や篠田正浩（乾いた花、暗殺）と同時代に吉田は27歳で監督デビューを果たす。その後の数十年間にわたり２０作品以上を制作したが、そのどれもが英語圏で見るのは難しいと証明されている。
日本の伝説的なアートシアターギルドの下で製作された煉獄エロイカは、エロス＋虐殺の見事な撮影方法を継続しつつ、荒々しくも夢のような70年代前半の日本でされていた政治論を展開する。
