Love & Peace
FEATURE SLATE
NYC Premiere
Video introduction with director Sion Sono
Due to a scheduling conflict, Sion Sono will not be present to participate in a Q&A as previously announced.
SOLD OUT. Decades in the making, Love & Peace returns to director Sion Sono’s most persistent themes: purity, passion and cult power. A chilling, candy-colored fantasy of the nuclear age, this story of a coward turned Bowie-esque rock god is a frantic meditation on artistic integrity and political responsibility at a time when Sono’s own career is mutating beyond the Japanese stadium. Office clerk Ryoichi’s dreams have been squelched by fear, however a fateful meeting with a turtle sends him toward stardom. Provocatively named "Pikadon," after the Japanese descriptor of the atomic bomb’s brilliant light (pika) and blast (don), the turtle returns just in time.
| 2015. 117 min. DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Sion Sono. With Hiroki Hasegawa, Kumiko Aso, Toshiyuki Nishida, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Makita Sports. “The hardest working man in Japanese cinema, prolific cult auteur Sion Sono’s latest surreal offering feels like a genre-warping mash-up of Godzilla, Toy Story and Miracle on 34th Street.” —Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter Part of JAPAN CUTS 2016. |
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Tickets
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Love & Peace © 2015 "Love & Peace" Film Partners.
Film Stills
- Saturday, July 16, 2016
- 7:30 pm