Presented By: Center for Japanese Studies
Silent Ozu: CJS Fall Film Series - Free Friday Screenings
Featured Japanese Film: Dragnet Girl
(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) CJS's Fall Film Series of 2012 features silent films by Yasujiro Ozu with professional benshi (narrator), Ichiro Kataoka, performing theatrical narration at each screening. Most films will also include a live music accompaniment.
DRAGNET GIRL (Hijosen no onna)
Tokiko, played by the inimitable Kinuyo Tanaka, is a typist and a tough moll to Jyoji, a retired champion boxer and gang leader. Hiroshi, a fresh face among the members, idolizes Jyoji and neglects his school studies. Trying to keep him on the right path, Hiroshi's sister Kazuko asks Jyoji to help her brother to leave the gang and along the way, Jyoji falls for her.
(89 min, 35 mm, 1933)
DJ performance by Arwulf-Arwulf.
DRAGNET GIRL (Hijosen no onna)
Tokiko, played by the inimitable Kinuyo Tanaka, is a typist and a tough moll to Jyoji, a retired champion boxer and gang leader. Hiroshi, a fresh face among the members, idolizes Jyoji and neglects his school studies. Trying to keep him on the right path, Hiroshi's sister Kazuko asks Jyoji to help her brother to leave the gang and along the way, Jyoji falls for her.
(89 min, 35 mm, 1933)
DJ performance by Arwulf-Arwulf.