Masahiro Shinoda: From Pop to Kabuki (opens in new tab)

Kayoko Honoo in Masahiro Shinoda’s The Burning Sunset (1961) Back in March, we took a look at Sixties Shinoda, a Harvard Film Archive series of films that the late Masahiro Shinoda, a key figure in the Japanese New Wave, directed during the first decade of his long and prolific career. The program included Dry Lake (1960), Pale Flower (1964), Assassination (1964), Samurai Spy (1965), and Double Suicide (1969), and starting Friday, all five films—plus seven more—will screen in New York as part...