Comic Legacies on the Japanese Silver Screen

A film series presented at Yale University from February to April of 2024.

See below for a list of screenings:

February 24, 2024 Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa (1930, Saitō Torajirō), Fighting Friends (1929, Ozu Yasujirō), Romantic and Crazy (1934, Yamamoto Kajirō), Singing Lovebirds (1939, Makino Masahiro)

March 2, 2024 Akanishi Kakita (1936, Itami Mansaku), Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryō (1935, Yamanaka Sadao), March 30 Room for Rent (1959, Kawashima Yūzō), Doctor’s Day Off (1952, Shibuya Minoru),

April 6, 2024 Oh, My Bomb! (1964, Okamoto Kihachi), All Under the Moon (1993, Sai Yōichi)

April 13, 2024 Nest Egg (1956, Chiba Yasuki), Gambler’s Luck (1966, Yamada Yōji), April 20 Kamome Diner (2006, Ogigami Naoko), Make Way for the Jaguars! Jaguars! (1968, Maeda Yōichi)

All films are screened in Japanese with English subtitles.

The series was sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies, the National Film Archive of Japan, and the Yale Film Archive, with support from the Japan Foundation.

Prints for this screening were provided by The National Film Archive of Japan.