Off to Tokyo...again

Doing my usual frenzied and overly-meticulous preparation for a morning departure tomorrow to Tokyo, this time for ten days and primarily for work on some of those Shochiku titles mentioned in a previous post. But I'll be sure to make a bit of time for some poster shopping and decent food.

Will update the blog after the trip on just what I was able to accomplish, but this is likely to be one of the busiest trips I've taken to what's turning into a serious Second City for me. And more is waiting in the wings, possibly during another trip in May or late in the summertime. I've never been to Tokyo during its "mushiatsui" wet and humid summer months, so maybe it's time to experience that particular hell first-hand?

Be back in April for nationwide Nikkatsu madness, and more.

Nikkatsu screening schedule April-May

The Nikkatsu Action series is ready to pounce on America like Tamio Kawachi in The Warped Ones, and here's a full schedule of all the screenings over the next couple of months.

New York, Japan Society
April 4 — Glass Johnny: Looks Like a Beast
May 2 — Roughneck

Chicago, The Gene Siskel Film Center
April 5 — A Colt is My Passport
April 12 — The Warped Ones
April 20 — Glass Johnny: Looks Like a Beast
April 26 — Red Handkerchief
May 2 — Like a Shooting Star (aka The Velvet Hustler)
May 16 — Gangster VIP
May 23 — Roughneck
[due to a scheduling conflict, the Chicago screening of Plains Wanderer had to be cancelled]

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Film Festival / The Bridge Cinema de Lux
April 5 — Like a Shooting Star (aka The Velvet Hustler)

San Francisco, Yerba Buena Cultural Center
April 10 — A Colt is My Passport
April 11 — Roughneck and Gangster VIP
April 12 — Red Handkerchief and Glass Johnny: Looks Like a Beast
April 13 — Like a Shooting Star (aka The Velvet Hustler)

Boston, The Brattle Theatre
April 18 — A Colt is My PassportApril 19 — Plains Wanderer and The Warped Ones
April 20 — Like a Shooting Star (aka The Velvet Hustler) and Red Handkerchief

Los Angeles, The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian
April 25 — Gangster VIP and Like a Shooting Star (aka The Velvet Hustler)
April 26 — A Colt is My Passport and Glass Johnny: Looks Like a Beast
April 27 — The Warped Ones and Roughneck

Columbus, The Wexner Center for the Arts
May 2 — A Colt is My Passport and Red Handkerchief
May 16 — Like a Shooting Star (aka The Velvet Hustler) and Roughneck

Please check the individual websites for exact screening times and theatre locations. Note that some of the cinematheques haven't added their April schedules yet.

We plan to be in town for the screenings in New York (our home base, of course), San Francisco, Boston, and Los Angeles, so look for us if you come to any of those screenings. After May, the series will travel to Montreal, Seattle, Vancouver, and possibly a few places in-between.