Bad romance, blind love, amour fou! This spring, the Japan
Society of New York will screen a series of twisted, obsessive, heart-blazing love stories
from Japan and Korea. Love Will Tear Us Apart, the 6th
annual Globus Film Series, will run from March 2 to 18 and include 22 feature
films and 2 shorts. It is a mixture of
cutting edge modern fare and avant-garde classics. The programme includes such internationally
acclaimed directors as Hirokazu Koreeda, Kōji Wakamatsu, Nagisa Oshima, Kim Ki-duk and Lee
Chang-dong.
New Yorkers will have the
opportunity of enjoying the US premiere of Shinya
Tsukamoto’s Kotoko and the world premiere of
Kōji Wakamatsu’s Petrel Hotel
Blue. Special guests will include actress
and model Hyunri (Romance, Freeter ie wo Kau),
film scholar John Berra (Nanjing
University), and film historian and curator Go Hirasawa. I saw Romance, the short by Toshiro Sonoda starring Hyunri at the Nippon Connection sponsored screenings at Japan Week in November and it's a wild ride. John Berra is the editor of the forthcoming publication Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2, which features an essay that I wrote on the great puppet master Kihachirō Kawamoto.
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 2
7:30 PM Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2011)
preceded by short film Romance (Toshiro Sonoda, 2010)
+ MAKE LOVE party with Hyunri
Saturday, March 3
2 PM Air
Doll (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009)
4:30 PM My
Dear Enemy (Lee yoon-ki, 2008)
7 PM Vital
(Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004)
9 PM A
Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2003)
Sunday, March 4
5:30 PM Vibrator
(Ryūichi Hiroki, 2004)
7:30 PM M (Ryūichi
Hiroki, 2006)
Wednesday, March 7
7 PM Petrel
Hotel Blue(Kōji Wakamatsu, 2012)
9 PM Running
in Madness, Dying in Love(Kōji Wakamatsu, 1969)
Thursday, March 8
7 PM Tale of
Cinema (Hong Sang-soo
9 PM
The Woman Who Wanted to Die (Kōji
Wakamatsu, 1970)
Friday, March 9
7:30 PM Villain
(Lee Sang-il , 2010)
Saturday, March 10
3 PM Time (Kim
Ki-duk, 2006)
5:15
PM Bad Guy( Kim Ki-duk, 2001)
7:30 PM Dream
(Kim Ki-duk , 2008)
9:30 PM Happy
End (Jung Ji-woo, 1999)
Friday, March 16
7:30 PM Snakes
and Earrings (Yukio Ninagawa , 2008)
10 PM In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Saturday, March 17
3 PM Chaos
(Hideo Nakata, 2000)
5:30 PM Vegetarian
(Lim Woo-seong, 2009)
Sunday, March 18
4:30 PM Minazuki
(Rokuro Mochizuki , 1999)
7 PM Oasis (Lee
Chang-dong, 2002)
More information on the festival as
well as past series and events is available at:
