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<p><strong>Friday, April 15 at 7 pm</strong></p>

<p><strong>Join us at 6 pm for a pre-screening party with Japanese foods and snacks provided by Kikkoman. The first 10 people who take photos in costume with our supporter banner and tag Japan Society on social media will receive a dual membership to Japan Society! </strong>
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<p>Mamoru Oshii’s groundbreaking cyberpunk classic conjures a startling vision of the future—a new age of global interconnectedness wherein neural pathways and information networks have become inextricably linked. Surveilling the sprawling technopolis of New Port City, Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg officer specializing in cybercrime, hunts down a mysterious entity responsible for a series of ‘ghost-hackings’ that have infiltrated human hosts. Known only as the Puppet Master, the newly-surfaced threat leads Major to uncover a vast conspiracy—prompting her to question her own humanity and purpose of existence. </p>

<p><em>Dir. Mamoru Oshii, 1995, 83 min., DCP, color, in Japanese with English Subtitles. With Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Iemasa Kayumi.</em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0.5rem; text-decoration: line-through;"><strong>Tickets:</strong> $15 / $5 members</p>

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A cyborg agent tracks down a mysterious hacking entity, known as the Puppet Master, in Mamoru Oshii’s seminal cyberpunk classic. 

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<div style="text-align:left; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px;">Japan Society programs are made possible by leadership support from Shiseido Americas and The Ford Foundation. Japan Society Film programs are generously supported by ORIX Corporation USA, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and endowment support from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund. Additional season support is provided by The Globus Family, Akiko Koide and Shohei Koide, David Toberisky, Geoff and Fumi Matters, Laurel Gonsalves, and David S. Howe. Transportation assistance is provided by Japan Airlines, the exclusive Japanese airline sponsor of Japan Society Film. </div>

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Introducing debut works and new films from six of Japan’s most well-known directors, Flash Forward runs from Dec. 3 to Dec. 23 with online and in-person screenings at Japan Society. 

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<p><em>Flash Forward: Debut Works and Recent Films by Notable Japanese Directors</em> is co-presented by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in collaboration with Visual Industry Promotion Organization.</p>

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<p>Japan Society Film programs are generously supported by ORIX Corporation USA, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund. Additional season support is provided by The Globus Family, Masako H. Shinn, David Toberisky, Akiko Koide and Shohei Koide, Geoff and Fumi Matters, Laurel Gonsalves, David S. Howe, and Masu Hiroshi Masuyama. Transportation assistance is provided by Japan Airlines, the exclusive Japanese airline sponsor of Japan Society Film. </p> 

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Flash Forward: Debut Works and Recent Films by Notable Japanese Directors

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Released to universal acclaim, Hayao Miyazaki’s 14th-century tale is one of the director’s grandest achievements, a sweeping epic with breathtaking visuals and profound thematic ambitions that has captivated audiences ever since its release.

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A majestic chronicle of a petty thief surreptitiously given another chance at life to serve as a kagemusha (double) for an aging warlord, Kurosawa’s late-period masterpiece erupts into a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.

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Yasujiro Ozu’s late ’50s re-working of I was Born But… is a delightful comedy of manners, spurred on by an adolescent’s disdain for the pleasantries and proclivities of suburban Tokyo life. 

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A straight-to-DVD classic, the anime companion to <em>The Matrix</em> series received a limited number of theatrical screenings in 2003 as part of a promotional push for <em>Reloaded.</em>

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Go Takamine’s celebrated adaptation of the Uchinaa Shibai play follows Giru, a day laborer, who flees his post after seducing his employer’s daughter. Escaping his boss’s wrath, Giru hides in the Untama forest where he is bestowed with mystical powers,

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