WAR TRILOGY: NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI
Mon, Jul 19
|Virtual Theater
In the last decade of his long and prolific career, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) best-known in the U.S. for the cult hit House (1977) wrote and directed a trio of deeply personal and formally audacious films that confronted Japan’s wartime past.
Time & Location
Jul 19, 2021, 12:00 AM – Aug 23, 2021, 12:00 AM
Virtual Theater
About the event
TRAGEDIES OF YOUTH: NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI’S WAR TRILOGY
NOW PLAYING IN OUR VIRTUAL THEATER! Tickets are $10.
In the last decade of his long and prolific career, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) —best-known in the U.S. as the filmmaker behind the cult hit House (1977)—wrote and directed a trio of deeply personal and formally audacious films that confronted Japan’s wartime past.
Made in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 2011 and informed by Obayashi’s firsthand experience as a child born on the eve of World War II in Hiroshima Prefecture, the staggering films in this trilogy—consisting of Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012), Seven Weeks (2014) and Hanagatami (2017)—collectively consider the loss of innocence for an entire generation of Japanese youth raised in the shadow of war and national disaster. (Japan Society)
HANAGATAMI
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