Beginning this weekend and continuing June 8-9, LACMA will offer a series of postwar Japanese films rarely screened in L.A. While the museum's revamped film schema enforces brevity (compare this series to MoMA's upcoming "Tokyo 1955-1970" exhibition, which includes 40 films), it's still a bracing dip into forceful cinematic currents in a time of intense cultural and economic change. Edgier styles (documentary and avant garde) and subjects (political and sexual) redirected classical Japanese cinema's emphasis on refined... More >>>