{"id":25993,"date":"2024-09-10T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=25993"},"modified":"2024-09-10T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:47:58","slug":"japan-society-first-north-american-retrospective-on-kaizo-hayashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=25993","title":{"rendered":"Japan Society Announces First North American Retrospective on Kaizo Hayashi, Independent Luminary of 80s and 90s Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Japan Society Announces First North American Retrospective on Kaizo Hayashi, Independent Luminary of 80s and 90s Cinema<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>So as to Dream: The Eternal Mysteries of Kaizo Hayashi<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>October 11\u201319, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>With Hayashi In-Person, Featuring International 4K Premieres of\u00a0<i>Maiku Hama<\/i>\u00a0Trilogy and Rare Celluloid Imports<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>To Sleep So as to Dream<\/i>\u00a0\u00a9 Video Detective Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>New York, September 10, 2024<\/b>\u2014Japan Society is pleased to announce the first North American retrospective on director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/japansociety.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ef206d0ae35fab61e0b4d210a&amp;id=e7092fb145&amp;e=1b06a84851\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Kaizo Hayashi<\/b><\/span><\/a>,<b>\u00a0<\/b>one of the great luminaries of independent Japanese cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. The world of Kaizo Hayashi is one of cinematic reverie and enchantment, whose reverence for film history\u2014transposing genre and stylistic conventions from<i>\u00a0benshi\u00a0<\/i>and silent era serials to\u00a0<i>jidaigeki<\/i>\u00a0and hardboiled noir\u2014results in one of the most imaginative and inspiring filmographies of the post-studio era. Invoking the mystery and intrigue of the moving image, amidst the flutter of celluloid frames, his cinema of the past brims with ingenuity and far-flung imagination, conjuring fantasies of what dreams may come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Forever associated with the elusive search of the detective, Hayashi eludes homage and pastiche, crafting works in dialogue with his influences, wherein\u2014as Donald Richie remarked on Hayashi\u2019s debut\u2014\u201chistory is used as though it were living and perhaps as a consequence, it comes alive.\u201d Lost romanticism, dreams deferred in light of earthly troubles, untethered time and anachronisms drift through Hayashi\u2019s oeuvre, itself filtered through a postmodernist and transcendent lens. Hayashi\u2019s penchant for literary and cinematic allusion is never far behind (his debut feature takes its name from Hamlet\u2019s \u201cTo Be or Not to Be\u201d soliloquy) as are his influences, from the silent era\u00a0<i>chanbara<\/i>\u00a0of Daisuke Ito to Nikkatsu action and Humphrey Bogart\u2019s Sam Spade. Working with a remarkable roster of talent, Hayashi launched the careers of actor\u00a0<b>Shiro Sano<\/b>\u00a0(then a disciple of\u00a0<i>angura\u00a0<\/i>director\u00a0<b>Juro Kara<\/b>) and\u00a0<i>Ring\/Grudge\u00a0<\/i>producer Takashige Ichise while also collaborating with renowned\u00a0<b>Seijun Suzuki<\/b>\u00a0art director\u00a0<b>Takeo Kimura<\/b>\u00a0(<i>Tokyo Drifter, Zigeunerweisen, Dogra Magra<\/i>); Nikkatsu action star\u00a0<b>Jo Shishido<\/b>;\u00a0<i>Red Elegy\u00a0<\/i>songwriter\u00a0<b>Morio Agata<\/b>; and\u00a0<b>Shunsui Matsuda<\/b>, the last\u00a0<i>benshi\u00a0<\/i>of the silent era. An independent talent who miraculously emerged in the 1980s outside of the typical avenues of the amateur small-gauge\u00a0<i>jishu eiga\u00a0<\/i>(autonomous or self-made film) championed by PIA or\u00a0<i>pinku<\/i>, Hayashi arose with no formal training, endeavoring to make films equipped with only his deep devotion to cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To kick off\u00a0<b><i>So as to Dream<\/i><\/b>, Hayashi will be in attendance for the first weekend of screenings, starting with the opening night screening of his astonishing debut\u00a0<b><i>To Sleep So as to Dream<\/i><\/b>\u2014a mystical evocation of cinema that would screen at the 1986 Venice International Film Festival and NYFF\u2014presented on a rare, archival 16mm import on October 11th<i>.\u00a0<\/i>Hayashi will further attend the weekend screenings of his expressionist tribute to the traveling circus,\u00a0<b><i>Circus Boys\u00a0<\/i><\/b>and his celebrated neo noir\u00a0<b><i>The Most Terrible Time of My LIFE<\/i><\/b>. The series also includes the international 4K restoration premieres of Hayashi\u2019s popular\u00a0<b>Maiku Hama\u00a0<\/b>trilogy starring\u00a0<b>Masatoshi Nagase<\/b>\u00a0(<i>P.P. Rider, Mystery Train<\/i>) as the titular Yokohama private eye (Maiku Hama is a take on pulp writer Mickey Spillane\u2019s Mike Hammer), specially prepared for Japan Society screenings. Following the restoration premiere of\u00a0<b><i>The Most Terrible Time of My LIFE<\/i><\/b>\u00a0on October 12 with Hayashi in-person, the remaining Maiku Hama restorations\u2014<b><i>The Stairway to the Distant Past<\/i><\/b>, a vibrant Cinemascope middle chapter, and hypnotic psychological thriller\u00a0<b><i>THE TRAP<\/i><\/b>\u2014will premiere the following weekend of October 18-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Society Announces First North American Retrospective on Kaizo Hayashi, Independent Luminary of 80s and 90s Cinema So as to Dream: The Eternal Mysteries of Kaizo Hayashi October 11\u201319, 2024 With Hayashi In-Person, Featuring International 4K Premieres of\u00a0Maiku Hama\u00a0Trilogy and Rare Celluloid Imports To Sleep So as to Dream\u00a0\u00a9 Video Detective Agency New York, 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