From 15 to 27 February, the Fundación Japón presents at the Cineteca de Madrid (Plaza de Legazpi, 8) Winds of youth, a retrospective of the cinema of Shinji Sômai.
Considered in his native country as the great Japanese director born in the eighties, Shinji Sômai (1948 – 2001) has received little attention outside of Japan. A gap in the Japanese cinema’s decade, sometimes known as lost, due to the end of the study system and the growing importance of independent cinema (border territories where Sômai was so well-known), which has been corrected internationally in recent years thanks to retrospectives, restorations and Blu-ray editions of its most well-known films.
Fundación Japón has joined this effort to recover the work of this key figure in Japanese cinema of the 80s and 90s with the retrospective Shinji Sômai – Winds of Youth, where up to seven of his thirteen films will be shown, many of them for the first time in Spanish cinemas.
A selection that pays special attention to one of the genres he knew so well to explore, the seishun eiga -or youth films- with which he makes his portraits of the end of childhood and the clash of his teenage characters with the world of adults. Seven films that also perfectly show their ability to experiment, playing with different styles and combining genres. Programme and more information at this link.
