We are very pleased to welcome the Japanese film director Fukada Koji to Yale on April 8 and 9, 2023, to show two of his films and hold noontime discussions with students, faculty, and other who are interested. Fukada is one of the leaders of a new generation of Japanese filmmakers whose films have been celebrated in Japan and abroad (for instance, at Cannes and Venice) and who, often in collaboration with Hamaguchi Ryusuke (Drive My Car), has been at the forefront in Japan of efforts to support filmmaking during the pandemic and reform the industry, especially by eliminating sexual harassment and improving labor conditions. Fukada’s cinema has both taken on social problems, from minorities in Japan (Hospitalité) to a post-Fukushima post-human future (Sayonara), as well as explored deeply personal and political issues of loss, trauma, disability, and otherness (Harmonium, The Man from the Sea, A Girl Missing, Love Life).
April 8:
Noontime discussion with English translation
12 pm, International Room, Sterling Library
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/lunch-session-japanese-director-fukada-koji-english-japanese
HARMONIUM (Prix du Jury, Un Certain Regard, Cannes, 2016)
7pm, Alice Cinema, HQ L01
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/harmonium-2016-fukada-koji-film-screening
April 9:
Noontime discussion with English translation
12 pm, International Room, Sterling Library
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/lunch-session-japanese-director-fukada-koji-english-japanese
LOVE LIFE (International Competition, Venice, 2022)
7pm, HQ L02
https://ceas.yale.edu/events/love-life-2022-fukada-koji-film-screning