- When:
- Friday, May 14, 2004, 8:00pm - 8:00pm
- Description:
- One of the few Japanese silent films to survive, this film was believed lost until 1958, when it was reconstructed from fragments. A new archival print complete with English subtitles is screened, accompanied by Chicago musicians Fred Lonberg-Holm and Jason Roebke, with text interpretation by Terri Kapsalis. Introduction by professor Tom Gunning, University of Chicago. (Kenji Mizoguchi, 35mm print, 110 min, 1933)
- Co-sponsored by the Smart Museum of Art and the Center for East Asian Studies. Print courtesy of the National Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Mizoguchi's The Water Magician
with live accompaniment by musicians Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jason Roebke and Frank Rosaly
