Japanese Auters: Heart, Beating in the Dark

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Contemporary Japanese Auteurs: Heart, Beating In The Dark (18) S

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.

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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.

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Past screenings that were part of this season

A Stranger Of MineWed 14 March 18:00
Dear DoctorSat 17 March 13:00
About Her BrotherSat 17 March 15:40
I Just Didn't Do ItSun 18 March 15:00
Heart, Beating In The DarkWed 21 March 18:00
SleepSat 24 March 15:00
Dark HarbourSun 25 March 15:00