『天使のたまご』 
Tenshi no Tamago
Sunday, September 10, 2023
6:00 pm
​Japan Society, NYC

​Special event with Yoshitaka Amano in-person. Screening followed by Q&A with Yoshitaka Amano and reception. A groundbreaking collaboration between two anime legends that intertwines Mamoru Oshii’s personal reflections on theology, existentialism and evolution with Yoshitaka Amano’s fantastical ink art style, Angel’s Egg remains a rarely screened and hard-to-find cult classic. Taking place in a seemingly quiescent time, two nameless strangers—a girl bearing a mystical egg and a man with a cruciate cane—journey across a primordial realm of decadent ruins, primitive fish and fossilized relics. An allegorical fantasy enriched by symbolism and biblical allusion, Oshii’s beautifully melancholic OVA ruminates on the tragic underpinnings of existence in a world untouched by God.
This event is presented in partnership with LOMEX Gallery (86 Walker Street), who will be presenting the exhibition Yoshitaka Amano – The Birth of Myth opening on September 9 from 6 to 8 pm. For more information, visit lomex.gallery.

Sunday July 30, 2023
​5:30pm
Japan Society, NYC

レジェンド＆バタフライ
Rejendo ando Batafurai
Introduced by and followed by a Q&A with director Keishi Otomo. Learn More
North American Theatrical Premiere. A sweeping historical romance created to celebrate Toei’s 70th anniversary, The Legend & Butterfly casts megastars Takuya Kimura as Oda Nobunaga and Haruka Ayase as his wife, Nohime. While Oda Nobunaga is one of Japan’s most well-documented historical figures, virtually no information about Nohime remains, and The Legend & Butterfly fills this mystery with a turbulent, thoroughly modern romance. A Sengoku era take on the expression “behind every great man lies a great woman,” The Legend & Butterfly sees over 30 years of defining moments in Japanese history driven by powerful, private moments between Nobunaga and Nohime.
Dir. Keishi Otomo, 2023, 168 min., DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Takuya Kimura, Haruka Ayase.

Tokyo melody: un film sur Ryuichi Sakamoto

Opening comments by Akiko Yano; Screening followed by a Q&A with Director Elizabeth Lennard.
Saturday, July 29th, 2023
7pm

Imported 16mm Print. Filmmaker and photographer Elizabeth Lennard secures unprecedented access to Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording of his 1984 albumOngaku Zukan in this brief-yet-insightful Franco-Japanese television co-production. A sampling of studio sessions and performances (including a piano duet with then-wife Akiko Yano), archival footage and talking head interviews, Tokyo Melody finds the eccentric artist at his creative peak, pushing the envelope to new sonic frontiers as he reflects on modern life, shifting technologies and his own creative processes. Lennard captures an awe-inspiring portrait of the extraordinary musician—one that taps into the very nature of the artist’s raison d’être and remains a testament to Sakamoto’s profound brilliance.
Dir. Elizabeth Lennard, 1985, 62 min., 16mm, color; in Japanese, English and French with English subtitles. With Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akiko Yano.

At Japan Society

Family Art Day: Printing with Shapes—Inspiration from the Kyohei Inukai Exhibition

​Sunday, April 16, 2023 11:00 am​
Japan Society, NYC

Kita Noh School, at Japan Society.

Friday, May 6 at 7:30 pm—followed by a MetLife Meet-the-Artists Reception SOLD OUT

Japan Society performances
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Oki Kano, known professionally as OKI, is a leading musician of Ainu music—the music of Japan’s northernmost indigenous people. Born to a Japanese mother and an Ainu father, OKI has recovered and recreated traditional music on the tonkori, a stringed instrument of the Ainu people of Karafuto (a region also known as Sakhalin). The rich, reverberating twang of the tonkoristrings, which are traditionally made from deer tendons, allowed Ainu shamans to communicate with spirits that control the wind, rain and other natural phenomena called kamuy. In this program, OKI performs solo pieces as well as contemporary works with his band members from their new album, Tonkori in the Moonlight, released in January 2022. OKI is also featured in the film Ainu Mosir (2020).

SHEEP#1

A performance by Sachiyo Takahashi (Nekaa Lab)
Inspired by the writings of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince
Japan Society Performing Arts

PROGRAM A, with Emile Blondel on piano:
Thursday, November 4 at 7:30 pm—followed by a MetLife Meet-the-Artists Reception
Sunday, November 7 at 2:30 pm
PROGRAM B, with Kato Hideki on bass guitar:
Friday, November 5 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 6 at 7:30 pm

The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood
Written and directed by Suguru Yamamoto
​Japan Society Performing the Arts

​One-man dance theater piece, performed by Wataru Kitao
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JAPAN SOCIETY PERFORMANCE
Kwaidan (Call of Salvation Heard from the Depths of Fear)

With Shiro Sano and Kyoji Yamamoto

JAPAN SOCIETY FILM
Mori, The Artist’s Habitat モリのいる場所 (Mori no Iru Basho)
North American Premiere

Intro and Q&A with star Kirin Kiki, with CUT ABOVE Award ceremony

at Japan Society, NYC

Four Nights of Dream
(Based on a novel by Natsume Soseki)
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OPERA | WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION
Japan Society 110th Anniversary Commission
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Music and Libretto: Moto Osada
Conductor: Ken-David Masur
Director: Alec Duffy
Set Designer: Mimi Lien
Costume Designer: Oana Botez 
Lighting Designer: Tuce Yasak
Singers: Marisa Karchin, Gloria Park, Christopher Sokolowski, Makoto Winkler, Jesse Malgieri, Rocky Sellers
Instrumentalists: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra 

Girl X
Japan Society Performing Arts program
HANCHU-YUEI 範疇遊泳/ Suguru Yamamoto 山本卓卓
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One of Japan’s most popular mukashi banashi folktales comes to life through the playful interpretation of beloved all-male contemporary dance company Condors, led by Ryohei Kondo.
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Hanasaka Jiisan (花咲爺さん　The Old Man Who Made Flowers Bloom)
​Dance performance by Condors/Ryohei Kondo
Japan Society Perfoming Arts

Saturday, December 10, 2016 
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Dance performance  by Takao Kawaguchi
At Japan Society
http://www.japansociety.org/event/about-kazuo-ohnoreliving-the-butoh-divas-masterpieces

Thursday, March 17, 2016
​7:00 pm
Japan Society 

​At Japan Society 
Friday, June 5, 2015  
Saturday, June 6, 2015