17th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 29 - Jul 15, 2018

Photo: © 2015 Kakekomi Film Partners.

New York Premiere

Kakekomi

駆込み女と駆出し男

Set in the Edo period, Harada Masato’s first jidaigeki follows the wayward ways of three kakekomi ("runaway women") who seek freedom from their disastrous marriages in the mountain temple of Tokeiji, in Kamakura. But to obtain their divorce papers, they must first endure two years of monastic service at the Buddhist nunnery. While their men roam outside the gates, some with regret in their hearts, others with revengeful plots in their heads, romance blooms between one of the women and an aspiring writer who lives next door. Hilarity and tragedy both ensue in this tale of sisterhood, women’s rights and patriarchal oppression.

Director: Harada Masato
Cast: Akama Mariko, Uchiyama Rina, Mitsushima Hikari, Toda Erika, Oizumi Yo
Languages: Japanese with English subtitles
2015; 146 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Sunday July 1, 12:30pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Director Harada Masato will be in attendance

Lifetime Achievement Award
Harada Masato
原田眞人

Harada Masato studied filmmaking in London and worked as a film critic in Hollywood before he made his 1979 directorial debut Goodbye Flickmania, an homage to Howard Hawks. He made several films in the US including sci-fi cult hit Gunhed (1989) and Painted Desert (1993) before returning to Japan to make Kamikaze Taxi (1994), his first collaboration with Yakusho Koji and his first modern classic. He is a master storyteller in the tradition of Kurosawa Akira who brings an always sharp blade to his explorations of history, social injustice, political corruption, and the weak foundations of Japanese democracy.