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Contemporary Japanese Auteurs: Heart, Beating In The Dark (18) S
Dir: Shunichi Nagasaki
Cast: Shigeru Muroi, Takashi Naito, Noriko Eguchi 104 mins, 2005, Japan, Subtitled
Please note: this was screened in March 2012
Nagasaki's original 1982 version of Heart, Beating In The Dark is a defining work of independent Japanese cinema, a masterpiece about a violent couple who go on the lam after killing their infant child shot on Super-8. Not content with simply remaking his original, Nagasaki has revisited and updated it: reuniting his original couple twenty years on while introducing a new, young couple in a similar predicament. A searching and extremely moving meditation on the outlaw mentality, growing up and becoming a parent that has been called "the finest achievement in recent Japanese cinema".
Fee: £7.20 full / £5.60 concessions.
Special Ticket Offer: See any four films in the Contemporary Japanese Auteurs Season and get to see a fifth film in this season for free. To take advantage of this offer please call Box Office on 0117 927 5100 or visit them in person.
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Contemporary Japanese Auteurs: Whose Film is it Anyway?
Please note: this is a old season with no further events to see
Rarely seen or heard of outside Japan, this eclectic season of films is a chance to celebrate names that should overwhelmingly receive more attention on foreign shores.
Past screenings that were part of this season
| A Stranger Of Mine | Wed 14 March 18:00 |
| Dear Doctor | Sat 17 March 13:00 |
| About Her Brother | Sat 17 March 15:40 |
| I Just Didn't Do It | Sun 18 March 15:00 |
| Heart, Beating In The Dark | Wed 21 March 18:00 |
| Sleep | Sat 24 March 15:00 |
| Dark Harbour | Sun 25 March 15:00 |
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