Documenting the plight of disabled children, Shimizu's tender drama THE SHIINOMI SCHOOL was a popular hit in Japan, starring Kyoko Kagawa as a teacher who helps open a school for youth with disabilities.

Screening 5/18 on a 35mm import: japansoc.org/Shiinomi

Hiroshi Shimizu — Japan Society Film & Museum of the Moving Image 's 27-film retro on a forgotten master of Japanese cinema praised by Ozu and Mizoguchi — is now playing at MoMI before continuing at Japan Society on 5/16!
-Part I: bit.ly/shimizu-at-momi
-Part II: japansoc.org/Shimizu

Only a handful of tickets remain, don't miss out on the North American premiere of Takashi Miike's LUMBERJACK THE MONSTER—screening TONIGHT!

Usually I’m not too bothered by my lack of access to New York (or LA) rep scenes but everyone watching Shimizu without me is really bumming me out. If you can go to these movies you’ve absolutely gotta do it.

Original Japanese release posters for Kenji Mizoguchi’s Heian-period masterpiece SANSHO THE BAILIFF.

Screening in 35mm on 6/7 as part of “Kinema Essentials”: japansoc.org/Sansho

I saw five Shimizu films this weekend — all elegant and stylish — but the best was Mr Thank You. Really remarkable film — contains one of the greatest one-off scenes in cinema (the Korean migrant worker).

CHILDREN IN THE WIND, Shimizu’s most adored film in Japan, is the saga of two brothers whose idyllic country life is shattered when their father is wrongly arrested. A shimmering evocation of the growth pangs of childhood. One show: Fri, 5/10, rare 35mm: bit.ly/3ybZ19C

If you don’t go see this, I swear to god.

I can't make it, and I hear it's absolutely beautiful. So some of y'all go see it for me?

Hiroshi Shimizu’s masterpiece MR. THANK YOU screens TONIGHT at Museum of the Moving Image on an archival 35mm import from Japan: hmovingimage.org/event/mr-thank…

Just got out of a screening of Japanese Girls at the Harbor - gorgeous. If you’re in NYC try to make it out to the Shimizu series they are only allowed to screen each film once because the prints are so precious

We've made English subtitles for SOUND IN THE MIST (1956). It'll be likely the first time the film will screen in an English-speaking country!

Screening 5/23 & 5/30: japansoc.org/SoundinMist

MR. THANK YOU (1936), A WOMAN CRYING IN SPRING (1933), & FORGET LOVE FOR NOW (1937) screen today, all on imported 35mm, at Museum of the Moving Image: bit.ly/shimizu-at-momi

Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Fushimi, Hiroshi Shimizu and Kogo Noda in 1928.

ニューヨークにて本日開幕した #清水宏 回顧プログラム（現存27作品全上映）初日 、Museum of the Moving Image にて上映された無声映画作品2本（『七つの海』前後編、及び『港の日本娘』。国立フィルムアーカイブ提供による35mmフィルム上映）の上映生伴奏を務めさせていただきました。関係各位の皆様に深謝。🙏

Tonight, 5/4 at 6pm on opening day of the Shimizu retrospective!

Two shots in Ozu’s DRAGNET GIRL and Shimizu’s JAPANESE GIRLS AT THE HARBOR show the same stretch of sidewalk. One time I found this location in Yokohama, and a tree (still standing) that appears in JAPANESE GIRLS and again in Shimizu’s FORGET LOVE FOR NOW.

Opening TODAY at Museum of the Moving Image w/Part I: The Shochiku Years.

Today:
SEVEN SEAS Pt. I & II
HERO OF TOKYO
JAPANESE GIRLS AT THE HARBOR

Tmrw:
FORGET LOVE FOR NOW
WOMAN CRYING IN SPRING
MR. THANK YOU

All on 35mm imports that may nvr play in the US again: bit.ly/shimizu-at-momi

this film is a postwar great bookend with MR. THANK YOU