Brownbag Lecture: Film and the Teaching of Japanese History

September 16, 1998

Brownbag Lecture: Film and the Teaching of Japanese History
Thomas Keirstead (Professor of Japanese History, University of Buffalo)
East Asian Institute Common Room, 9th floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University (118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
12:30 – 2:00 PM

Film: Eijanaika
Directed by IMAMURA Shohei (Imamura Productions, 1981, 151 min.)
Starring Izumi Shigeru, Ogata Ken, Momoi Kaori and Baisho Mitsuko
Altschul Auditorium, 4th floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University (118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:30 PM

Imamura’s exuberant account of the Tokugawa shogunate in collapse and the birth struggle of a post-feudal consciousness. Through the eyes of lowlife entertainers and cunning entrepreneurs on the fringes of Edo society, he depicts the oppresiveness of a tradition-bound government and the vigor of the uprisings that contributed to its eventual overthrow.

The film will be introduced by Thomas Keirstead, Professor of Japanese history at the State University of New York at Buffalo