Calendar

Here and There

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- TALK
  
  Women’s Sports in 20th Century Japan
  
  Saturday, April 18, 1 PM
- FILM
  
  The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
  
  Saturday, April 18, 3 PM
  Chronicling a country caught between flowering liberal democracy and a reactionary shift towards fascism, Takahisa Zeze’s exhilarating Taisho-era epic follows a group of radical male anarchists and an itinerant female sumo troupe.
- FILM
  
  Aim for the Best!
  
  Saturday, April 18, 7 PM
  Among the most iconic and influential sports manga and anime series of all time, this seminal portrayal of an insecure high school girl who strives to become a professional tennis player was adapted into a thrilling theatrical version.
- FILM
  
  A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
  
  Tuesday, April 21, 7 PM
  In this characteristically bizarre satire by Seijun Suzuki, an amateur golfer is groomed to be a sports star by a large sports magazine and becomes the victim of a blackmail scheme by a crazed housewife stalker.
- WORKSHOP
  
  Sake Cocktails: Sakura Celebration
  
  Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 PM
- FILM
  
  Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams
  
  Friday, April 24, 7 PM
  This perceptive documentary by Ema Ryan Yamazaki follows the coaches and players of two promising teams as they train for Koshien, the wildly popular national high school baseball championship, on its historic 100th anniversary.
- FILM
  
  Idaten (Ep. 1: “Before the Dawn”)
  
  Saturday, April 25, 2 PM
  A special free screening and talk event of the pilot episode of Idaten, NHK’s 2019 historical “taiga drama” about the history of Japanese sports and Japan’s participation in the Olympics throughout the 20th century.
- FILM
  
  Tokyo Paralympics: Festival of Love and Glory
  
  Saturday, April 25, 4:30 PM
  A recently rediscovered documentary about the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games that follows the Japanese athletes whose participation helped raise disability awareness and change prevailing stigmas in their home country.
- FILM
  
  Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament
  
  Saturday, April 25, 7 PM
  In this rare documentary, Kon Ichikawa captures the 50th Koshien tournament with the same lyricism and visual splendor as he did with the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo Olympiad (1965).
- BUSINESS & POLICY
  
  Robots in Society: 2020 & Beyond
  
  Tuesday, April 28, 6 PM
  In this program, experts introduce cutting-edge robots, discussing the evolving role of robots, the integration of robots into our society, and its impact on the future.