[NSW] Free Screenings: Classic Japanese Films from the 1930s at AGNSW (Bookings Required) @ Japanese Film Festival

JFF 2025 Presents | The 1930s: When Japanese Film Found Its Voice

The Japanese Film Festival Special Series returns to the Art Gallery of NSW in 2025 and proudly presents a FREE series of films from the 1930s, a defining decade for Japanese film. Following the introduction of “talkies”, or films made with sound, directors forged new visual languages and narrative styles that would shape the nation’s film industry for generations to come.

From the 12 November to 14 December, the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney will screen the films:

• Akanishi Kakita (dir. Mansaku Itami)
• An Actor's Revenge (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa)
• Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba aka Takadanobaba Duel (dir. Masahiro Makino and Hiroshi Inagaki)
• Humanity and Paper Balloons (dir. Sadao Yamanaka)
• Osaka Elegy (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Priest of Darkness (dir. Sadao Yamanaka)
• Sisters of the Gion (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryō (dir. Sadao Yamanaka)
• The Masseurs and a Woman (dir. Hiroshi Shimizu)
• The Only Son (dir.Yasujirō Ozu)
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
• Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (dir. Mikio Naruse)
• Wife! Be Like a Rose! (dir. Mikio Naruse)
• Woman of the Mist (dir. Heinosuke Gosho)

Don't miss your chance to see these rare classic films on the big screen! Reserve your FREE tickets via the JFF website