Event: “An Overview of Japanese Silent Film...”,

Thanks to everyone, the night was a success!

Event name: : “An Overview of Japanese Silent Film Spanning the Range from Manga to Chambara Swordfighting.”

Kuro Nyago: The Black Cat (1929)
Producer, Director, Drawings: Noburo Ofuji

Issun-boshi: Chibisuke Monogatari (1929)
Featuring live benshi performance by Raiko Sakamoto

Norakuro Gocho: Corporal Norakuro (1934)
Director and drawings: Yasuji Murata
Featuring live benshi performance by Raiko Sakamoto

Yaji Kita: Yasu Does Rescue (1927)
Director: Tomiyasu Ikeda
Starring: Denjiro Okochi
Featuring live benshi performance by Raiko Sakamoto

Ono ga Tsumi Sakubei: Your Sin Sakubei’s Story (1930)
Director: Sasaki Keisuke
Starring: Masao Inoue
Featuring recorded benshi performance by Shunsui Matsuda

Koina no Ginpei Yuki no Wataridori: Koi no Gimpei Migratory Snowbird (1931)
Director: Tomikazu Miyata
Starring: Tsumasaburo Bando
Featuring live benshi performance by Raiko Sakamoto

Place: Akasaka Civic Center
(along Route 246, between Akasaka-Mitsuke Station and Aoyama 1-chome Station)

Tickets: 1000 yen

Event name: Friends of Silent Film Association 598^th Screening "Period films starring Bando Tsumasaburo, Arashi Kanjuro, and Kataoka Chiezo!"

Otokodate Bayari (1931)
Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Chiezo Kataoka, Joji Kaieda, Junko Kinugasa

Ranto no Chimata (1926)
Directed by: Norikuni Yasuda
Starring: Tsumasaburo Bando, Shizuko Mori, Kichimatsu Nakamura

The Best of Kanjuro Arashi (1983)
Edited by Matsuda Film Productions
*Katsuben Talkie version by Shunsui Matsuda*

Benshi: Midori Sawato (Otokodate Bayari), Ichiro Kataoka (Ranto no Chimata)

Place: Monnaka Tenjo Hall
http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Emonten/
(A three-minute walk from Monzennakacho Station (Exit 3) on the Tozai Subway Line, or a one-minute walk from Monzennakacho Station (Exit 6) on the Oedo Subway Line.)

Event name: Silent film screening with Katuben for children and parents - We watch movies with Katuben! Part 3

Dotabata Satsueijo
Details are unknown, a slapstick comedy

Le Voyage Dans La Lune
(From the Earth to the Moon)
1902
Directed and Starring: Georges Melies

Sherlock Jr.
1924, U.S.A.
Directed an Starring: Buster Keaton
Co-starring: Kathryn McGuire

Benshi: Midori Sawato

Place:
Star Hall, Mitaka City Arts Center
(take a fifteen-minute walk from the JR Mitaka Station, or catch a bus from Terminal 5 or 6 at the South Exit to Hachiman-mae Geijutsu Bunka Center stop, or from Terminal 7 to Hachiman-mae stop and one minute walk.)

Event name: KATSUBEN in Gakushikaiza

The Mark of Zorro
1920, US
Directed by: Fred Niblo
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery

Benshi: Sawato Midori
Music: Yanashita Mie (piano)
* Sawato Midori will give a talk about cinema.

Place: Room 320 (3F) of Gakushikaikan
(A thirty-second walk from Exit A9 of Jinbocho Subway Station.)

Event name: 599^th Friends of Silent Film Association Screening "Masterpieces of the world motion picture history - US films-"

Sunrise (1927, US)
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor

Cruel, Cruel love (1914, US)
Directed by: George Nichols
Starring: Charles Chaplin

The Pawnshop (1916, US)
Directed and starring: Charles Chaplin

Benshi: Sawato Midori (Sunrise), Sakurai Mami (Cruel, Cruel love and The Pawnshop)

Place: Monnaka Tenjo Hall
Tel: 03-3641-8275
http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~monten/
(A three-minute walk from Monzennakacho Station (Exit 3) on the Tozai Subway Line, or a one-minute walk from Monzennakacho Station (Exit 6) on the Oedo Subway Line.)

Event name: Katsuben in Gakushikaiza

Featured Films:
Camille
1921, U. S. A.
Directed by: Ray C Smallwood
Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Alla Nazimova

Benshi: Midori Sawato
Music: Takashi Niigaki (Piano), Makiko Suzuki (Flute)
* Midori Sawato will give a talk about cinema.

Event name: 1^st Koto Cinema Festival

Featured Film:
Takekurabe:
1955, Talkie film:
Original Story: Ichiyo Higuchi:
Directed by: Heinosuke Gosho:
Starring: Hibari Misora

Event name: 1^st Koto Cinema Festival

Featured Film:
Taki no Shiraito
1933
Original story: Kyoka Izumi
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring: Takako Irie, Tokihiko Okada
*Screening Katsuben Talkie Film by Shinsui Matsuda

Event name: 1^st Koto Cinema Festival

Featured Film:
Dekigokoro
1933
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Takeshi Sakamoto, Den Obinata, Nobuko Fushimi

Benshi: Midori Sawato
Live Music: Colored Monotone

Event name: YAMAGATA International Documentary Film Festival encore screening: Yamagata Beauty Series

Featured Films:
Ono ga Tsumi Sakubei
1930
Directed by: Tsunejiro Sasaki
Starring: Masao Inoue, Shizue Tatsuta
*Screening Katsuben Talkie Film by Shunsui Matsuda

Tokyo Koshinkyoku
1929
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Sarring: Shizue Natsukawa, Isamu Kosugi, Reiji Ichiki
*Screening Katsuben Talkie Film by Midori Sawato

Kyoei ha Jigoku
1925
Directed and Script: Shizue Tatsuta, Kiyoshi Hasegawa
*Silent screening (benshi narration not included)

Event name: Enjoy Cinema with Katsuben and Live Music

Featured Film:
Umaretewa Mitakeredo
1932
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Tokkan Kozo

Benshi: Midori Sawato
Live Music: Colored Monotone

Event name: Kinema Collaboration Vol.7

Featured Film:
7^th Heaven
1927, U.S. A.
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Albert Gran

Benshi: Yuko Saito
Music composition and piano: Harumi Misawa

Event name: New Year Cinema in Machida

Featured Films:
The Cure
1917, U.S. A.
Directed and starring: Charles Chaplin

The Mask of Zorro
1920, U. S. A.
Directed by: Fred Niblo
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery

Benshi: Yuko Saito
Music composition and piano: Harumi Misawa