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Film Series to Show Moving
Kore-eda Hirokazu has called Shinji Sômai “the best filmmaker of his generation,” and nowhere is Sômai’s influence on Kore-eda more apparent than in his 1993 film Moving. Told from the vantage point of a 6th grader named Renko (Tomoko Tabata, in what is truly one of the best performances ever by a child in a film) whose parents are divorcing, Renko navigates living with her mother solo in Kyoto. After making this film, Tabata disappeared from cinema for about a decade, only to return to act in films by notables such as Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and, yes, Kore-eda Hirokazu. Director Sômai has seen a spike in interest in North America since a retrospective at Japan Society in Manhattan last year—sharp Film Series patrons might recall that he’s the director of Typhoon Club, which we showed last November—and to our eyes, Moving is his best film we’ve yet seen. If you don’t want to take our word for it, Film Series favorite Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car, Evil Does Not Exist) says that “Moving marks a period of the highest refinement in Shinji Sômai’s career.”
In Japanese with English subtitles.
$8 for the general public; $7 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools; $6 for Webster University staff and faculty; $0 for Webster students with proper ID
