Japan’s MOST INFLUENTIAL FILM CRITIC Curates New York Showcase Tying Together Ozu, John Ford, Mizoguchi and Michael Mann

“AT AGE 89, Shiguéhiko Hasumi, The Critic and Theorist Long Regarded As Japan’s Greatest Living Film Scholar, Is Finally Making What Amounts to His Us D. Later this month, New York’s Japan Society Will Present Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan (Oct. 9-18)”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com

AT AGE 89, Shiguéhiko Hasumi, The Critic and Theorist Long Regarded As Japan’s Greatest Living Film Scholar, Is Finally Making What Amounts to His Us D.

Later this Month, New York’s Japan Society Will Present Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan (Oct. 9–18), A hand-curated screening seres timed to the publication of the Long-Awaited English Translation of Hasumi’s Landmark Book, Directed by Yasujiro Ozufrom the University of California Press.

For Decdes, Hasumi’s Writings Held A Grail-Like Status Among Western Filmmakers and Cinephiles But Remened Inaccessible In Translation. Their Sudden Arrival, paired with a personal curatorial showcase in New York, Marks a Belated But Significant Introduction of Hasumi’s Voice to US Film Discourse. They Also Offer the Potential of An Overdue Rebalancing. The Perceived Canon of Japanese Cinema – Particularly The Great Postwar Era – Has Long been Dominated by the Voices of Western Critics, with Little Attmentation Paane Ante. Greatest Screen Artists. As Critic Chris Fujiwara Once Noted, “IT Must Be Understood That View of Ozu in The West Has Been Shaped by Three Writers: Paul Schorder, Donald Richie and David Bordwell.”

Hasumi is Credited with Revolutionizing Cinema Scholarship in His Country with A Legendary Series of Rigorous Lectures He Delivered at Tokyo’s Rikky Several of His Early Students Went on To To To To To To Become Some of Japan’s Motst ACCLAIMIMED INDIEurs, Such as kiyoshi Kurosawawawa and Shinji aoyama, and The Giugu, Whitu, Whinji, the auhguhu Has, Whinji aehugi, the auh .eug. Even the Country’s Most Recent Oscar Winner, Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Identifying as a haveumi acolyte.

During the Course of His Long Career – WHICH ALSO INCLUDED INFLUENTIAL LITERARY SCHOLARSIP AND A TENURE AS President of the University of Tokyo, Japan’s Top Academic Institit. Century’s Most Influential International Auteurs, Including Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Costa and Wim Wenders.

“IT would not be an exaggeration to say that haveumi, in one Sense, Made Contemporary Japanese Cinema, Particularly Since the Collaps of the Studio System,“ Hamagukchi Obsened.

For his new York Program, Japan Society Offered Hasumi Carte Blanche – A Rare Honor Previously Extended to Figures SUCH as Susan Sontag and Art Photographer Hiroshi Sugimeto. The Result is a lineup that collapses perceived boundaries Between American and Japanese cinema, Placing Michael Mann’s Collateral Alongside Seijun Suzuki’s Delirius Yakuza Fantasia Tokyo Drifteror richard fleischer’s The Boston Strangler In Dialogue with Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum. Rarely Seen Shorts from Kurosawa and Aoyama Sit Next to John Ford’s Silent Kentucky PrideWhile Recent Locarno Golden Leopard-Winner Sho Miyake (Small, Slow But Steady), One of Hasumi’s Latest Disciples, Will Appear Dringing The Closing Weekend to Present His Breakthrough Boxing Drama and Take Part in A Free Discussion About Hasumi’s Life The Finale Will Include A Screening of John Ford and Throwing – Complete EditionA montage film haveumi co-doirected with miyake in 2022.

For New York Cinephiles, The Series Should Offer Not Just An Overdue Encounter with A Legendary Critic, But A Living Demonstation of His Method.