The City Loved by Cinema, Tokyo!_guest_1
The City Loved by Cinema, Tokyo!_guest_2
This project featured the screening of a selection of films looking at the city of Tokyo from different angles, including “Lost in Translation,” “Like Someone in Love,” and “Café Lumière.” A range of guests including “Like Someone in Love” cinematographer Katsumi Yanagishima and its assistant director Shohreh Golparian, music critic Peter Barakan, and Yo Hitoto who appeared in “Café Lumière” joined discussions aimed at getting to the bottom of why the city of Tokyo has mesmerized and stimulated the creativity of artists from all over the world. The project unsurprisingly shook up visitors’ image of Tokyo, immersing them beyond time and space in various iterations of Tokyo preserved on screen. Visitors also took part in talk sessions about film and Tokyo, remolding their concept of the metropolis. The event managed to impart a sense of the multilayered charm of Tokyo from memories and stories of the city on celluloid.
【Eurospace】
Launched in 1977 as a cinema club. In January the same year, the group organized the first postwar festival of new German film. The festival introduced Japan to some of the leading directors of contemporary Germany including Wim Wenders. In 1982 the group opened the EUROSPACE independent arthouse movie theater in Sakuragaokacho in Tokyo’s Shibuya-ku, a theater which together with Cinema Square Tokyu and others paved the way for the arthouse movie theater boom. Since then, it has continued to introduce and distribute mainly independent films from Europe and New York as well as new cinematic works from Asia.
Eurospace
KINOHAUS 4F, Maruyamacho 1-5, Shibuya, Tokyo,
150-0044
Eurospace
