Description
Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Simpson.
Like Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu employed elements of American genre films in his early work. Walk Cheerfully gracefully combines elements of the relationship drama and the gangster story.
In this silent film, small-time gangster Kenji, aka Ken the Knife, wants to go straight for good girl Yasue but finds that starting over isn’t as simple as it sounds. This was the Japanese master’s first true homage to American crime movies, and it is a fleetly told, expressively shot work of humor and emotional depth. Description adapted from Janus Films.
(Dir.: Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1930, 96 min., b&w, 35mm, English intertitles)
Image courtesy of Janus Films
Cost
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Accessibility & Accommodations
Assisted listening devices, Captioning, Wheelchair accessible
