Japan Society
A prolific and versatile filmmaker who worked across a wide range of genres throughout his long career, Umetsugu Inoue (1923-2010) made his mark at Nikkatsu Studios in the 1950s with a series of highly entertaining, genre-blending musical films that captured the explosive energy of Japan’s jazz fueled youth culture. Japan Society presents three of Nikkatsu’s newly-subtitled, full-color Inoue classics starring heartthrob (and so-called “Japanese Elvis Presley”) Yujiro Ishihara.
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