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JAPANESE CLASSICS

In the 1960s two innovative Japanese directors began pushing the gangster film in new directions for a new audience – the post-war generation
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Tokyo Drifter​ 
Tōkyō nagaremono

Suzuki Seijun
Japan  ·  1966

An embattled yakuza hitman attempts to go straight in this deliriously colourful and over-the-top gangster flick.  

​“One of the most brilliant genre movies ever made” – Tony Rayns

​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Pigs and Battleships 
​Buta to gunkan

Imamura Shōhei
Japan  ·  1962

Haruko wants her boyfriend to quit working for the gangsters out to prey on the Americans at the US naval base in Yokosuka. 
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“A rambunctious carnival of post-war folly” – New York Times

​​Screening times, reviews and trailer >>

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Phone: +64 4 385 0162  |  Fax: +64 4 801 7304  |  Email: 
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