1 January 2022
“Drive My Car” takes a meditative trip down memory lane. Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryusuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss. Here you can read a super review of the film by Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Dr Becca Voelcker.
Read on9 September 2021
Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival returns this month as Chapter’s first visiting film festival since lockdown measures ended. Although the festival screenings will have reduced seating due to social distancing, there’s still a great programme of events, with films such as The Deer King, Ride Your Wave, On-Gaku, and Studio Ghibli’s latest Earwig and the Witch. An important part of
Read on1 June 2020
The organisers of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival – the first large theatre festival in Central and Eastern Europe to be organised online in 2020, have organised an online special edition, “Empowered”, which will be streamed for free on Facebook, YouTube, and via its website. Two of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s productions will be streamed online: The
Read on6 March 2020
Baaba’s Footsteps, by British-Japanese playwright Susan Momoko Hingley, is a new play premiering at the Vault Festival 2020. Baaba’s Footsteps tells the story of two Japanese women from different eras who travel to San Francisco in search of a better life. The protagonist’s present day story is woven together with the story of Japanese Picture
Read on23 July 2019
Free tickets for teenagers!
There will be ten free tickets available for each performance for teenagers and their accompanying parents.
People hoping to get the free tickets should e-mail shimizu.takeshi@gmail.com – first come first served.
14 June 2018
CLOD ENSEMBLE is pleased to present ‘Snow’, a twenty-minute sound piece inspired by the restless spirits in Japanese Noh Theatre. ‘Snow’ will be one of three short pieces shown as part of ‘The Transformative Power of Mugen Noh’ during ‘Noh Reimagined’ Festival at Kings Place, London on Saturday 30 June 2018, 7.30pm. In a pre-show talk, Suzy Willson and Paul Clark will talk about their recent visit to Japan, which was supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Read on6 March 2018
The Women of Ishikawa, performed by Doubtful Sound and The SOAS Minyo Group: original tales from various sources, translated into English by Shinako Wakatsuki-Robinson. Showing 5th and 6th May at The Cat’s Back, SW18 1NN. The show is part of The Wandsworth Fringe Festival.
Read on12 February 2018
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Soho Theatre in association with Noda Map present ONE GREEN BOTTLE, by Hideki Noda, translated and adapted by Will Sharpe: the European premiere of an absurd comedy from the team behind the international hit “The Bee”. Showing Friday 27 April – Saturday 19 May 2018 at 7.15pm (matinees 2.30pm).
Read on29 September 2017
Running at BFI Southbank from Monday 16 October – Wednesday 29 November, Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama will be an opportunity for audiences to explore the cinema of Japan’s ‘Golden Age’, with a distinctly female focus. This Sight & Sound Deep Focus season includes several titles rarely screened in the UK, such as The Mistress (Shirō Toyoda, 1953), An Inlet of Muddy Water (Imai Tadashi, 1953) and The Blue Sky Maiden (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957), and
spotlights the magnificent female actors who starred in them. These include figures such as Setsuko Hara, one of Ozu’s key collaborators, Kinuyo Tanaka, the actor who became one of Japan’s first female directors and who was hailed in the West as ‘Japan’s Bette Davis’, and Machiko Kyō, best known as the star of Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950). All of these stars endure as beloved icons of Japanese cinema, and their performances shine just as brightly as they did over fifty years ago.
12 September 2017
A PAGE OF MADNESS (1926) by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Sunday 24th September 2017, 6pm at the Arthur & Paula Lucas Lecture Theatre, King’s College London
Starring: Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Hiroshi Nemoto, Misao Seki
Language: Japanese with benshi narration in English
Running Time: 59 mins
