The Catch (1983, Soumai Shinji) Film Screening
Apr
15
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Humanities Quadrangle (HQ), L01
320 York Street, New Haven CT, 06511
The Yale Film Archive and the Yale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies present
The Catch (1983, Soumai Shinji, 140 min., 35mm, with English subtitles)
A rugged drama of initiation set in an isolated part of northeastern Japan. A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade (MUBI.com).
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ).