Influential contemporary playwright and theatre director, Kara Juro, appears as himself on the streets of Shinjuku, center of the youthful counterculture in the 1960s. Nagisa Oshima has created what amounts to a documentary of Shinjuku during the era, alongside a comic look at a fictional lovable loser, the oddly named Birdey Hilltop. Shot in 16mm, black and white, the hand-held camera captures the sense of spontaneity, of alienation, of longing, of outrageousness that brought life, freedom, and openness to Japan during its turbulent 1960s. A quintessential New Wave film. All the films are in Japanese with English subtitles and will be shown in the Krannert Art Museum auditorium .
Admission is free.