Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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DVD
Floating weeds = Ukigusa [1959]
Yasujirō Ozu
The human condition = Ningen no jōken [1959]
Shigeru Wakatsuki
Cruel gun story = Kenju zankoku monogatari [2009]
Takumi Furukawa
Empire of passion [2009]
Anatole Dauman
Twenty-four eyes [1954]
Keisuke Kinoshita
An autumn afternoon = Sanma no aji [1962]
Kōgo Noda
Rashomon [2008]
Akira Kurosawa
Sisters of the Gion = Gion no shimai [1936]
Kenji Mizoguchi
Osaka elegy = Naniwa erejî [1936]
Street of shame = Akasen chitai [1956]
Akira Kurosawa's Stray dog [1949]
Kihachi Okamoto's The sword of doom [1965]
Shinobu Hashimoto
The Burmese harp = Biruma no tategoto [2007]
Kon Ichikawa
Fires on the plain = Nobi [2007]
Throne of blood = Kumonosujō [2003]
Hideo Oguni
Tokyo story = Tokyo monogatari [1953]
Visual Materials
Akira Kurosawa's Seven samurai [1954]
Dreams = Yume [1990]
The hidden fortress = Kakushi-toride no… [2014]
High and low = Tengoku to jigoku [1963]
Yojimbo [2006]
The bad sleep well = Warui yatsu hodo yoku… [1960]
Red beard = Akahige [1965]
Ikiru [2004]
Sojiro Motoki
Only son [1936]
I was born, but-- : Umarete wa mita keredo [2008]
The end of summer = Kohayagawake no aki [1961]
Early spring = Soshun [1956]
Early summer = Bakushū [1951]
Late spring = Banshun [2006]
Late autumn = Akibiyori [1960]
Still walking = Aruitemo aruitemo [2011]
Hirokazu Koreeda
After the storm = Umi yori mo mada fukaku [2017]
Our little sister = Umimachi diary [2016]
Like father, like son [2013]
I wish = Kiseki [2011]
The life of Oharu [1952]
The story of the last chrysanthemum = Zangiku… [1939]
Sansho the bailiff = Sanshō dayū [1954]
Ugetsu = Ugetsu monogatari [1953]
When a woman ascends the stairs = Onna ga kaidan… [1960]
Mikio Naruse
An actor's revenge = Yukinojô henge [2018]
The Makioka sisters = Sasame-yuki [2011]
In the realm of the senses = Ai no corrida [1976]
Nagisa Ōshima
Double suicide= Shinjū ten no Amijima [1969]
Masahiro Shinoda
Pale flower = Kawaita hana [1964]
Samurai spy = Ibun sarutobi sasuke [1965]
Fighting elegy = Kenka erejii [1966]
Seijun Suzuki
Branded to kill = Koroshi no rakuin [2011]
Tokyo drifter = Tôkyô nagaremono [2011]
Gate of flesh = Nikutai no mon [1964]
Story of a prostitute = Shunpuden [2005]
Youth of the beast = Yajū no seishun [1963]
Take aim at the police van = Sono gososha o… [2009]
Ryōji Motegi
I hate but love = Nikui an-chikushō [1962]
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Intentions of murder [1964]
Jiro Tomoda
Karayuki-san, the making of a prostitute [2012]
Shōhei Imamura
The insect woman [1963]
Vengeance is mine = Fukushū suru wa ware ni ari… [1979]
Pigs and battleships [1961]
Kano Otsuka
Woman in the dunes = Suna no onna [2016]
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu [2009]
Hiroshi Shimizu
Birds without names = Kanojo ga sono na wo… [2018]
Kazuya Shiraishi
Crazed fruit = Kurutta kajitsu [2005]
Kō Nakahira
I am waiting = Ore wa matteru ze [1957]
Takiko Mizunoe
Drunken angel = Yoidore tenshi [1948]
Thirst for love = Ai no kawaki [1967]
The idiot = Hakuchi [1951]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Norwegian wood = Noruwei no mori [2010]
Anh Hùng Trân
The warped ones = Kyōnetsu no kisetsu [1960]
Equinox flower = Higanbana [1958]
The tale of the Princess Kaguya [2015]
Isao Takahata