SUBWAY CINEMA NEWS: August 7 - 14
Welcome to Subway Cinema News, your guide to all kinds of Asian shenanigans in New York City and sometimes - just sometimes - beyond.
THIS WEEK
Japanese Screen Classics, in Honor of Madame Kawakita will end next Thursday, August 14 at the Walter Reade Theater. It’s screening classic flicks from the likes of Oshima, Seijun and Kurosawa and the must see items are coming up this weekend: Suzuki Seijun’s brain-exploding crime movies BRANDED TO KILL and TOKYO DRIFTER.
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Anthology Film Archives will be hosting a screening of FIRST LOVE on August 21. This is Lee Myung-Se’s first movie to really be worshipped by critics and it’s ultra rare (there is no home video version). It’s a simple love story from 1992, but it’s the one that worshippers in his cult hold as one of the best. Don’t miss it.
At the ImaginAsian, August 7 sees the start of SINGH IS KINNG which stars Akshay Kumar and sounds like typical Bollywood fare. Here’s the plot description:
“Singh is Kinng is a story about Happy Singh, a Punjabi Sikh. He is very mischievous and gets involved in a number of disastrous situations, so the villagers plan to send him to Australia to bring back his fellow villager, Lucky Singh. It is then revealed that Lucky is an underworld Don in Australia. Then, in a accident, Happy saves Lucky but still Lucky becomes paralysed. Hence, Happy becomes the new King of the Australian Underworld.“
LOVE AND HONOR, the third film in Yoji Yamada’s Samurai trilogy is still playing at the Pioneer TwoBoots (ends August 7)