The Embassy of Japan in Luxembourg has announced that it will co-organise a Japanese film festival called "Japan's Golden Age of Cinema" in collaboration with the Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg and the Japan Foundation between December 2025 and January 2026.
The "Japan's Golden Age of Cinema" retrospective will show five Japanese films from the 1950's selected by the Cinémathèque and the Japan Foundation, which feature different topics and aspects of life. The programme includes important works of the time, such as the 1953 drama Tokyo Story by renowned film director Yasujirō Ozu and the 1951 comedy Carmen Comes Home - Japan's first feature length colour film - directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
The films will be screened in their original version with English subtitles at the Théâtre des Capucins in Luxembourg-Ville (the Cinémathèque is currently undergoing renovations).
Programme
Sunday 7 December @ 17:00: Tokyo Story by Yasujirō Ozu (1953)
Monday 8 December @ 18:30: A Story from Chikamatsu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1954; also titled The Crucified Lovers) - an opening ceremony is planned ahead of this screening, in the presence of Georges Bildgen from the Cinémathèque and Masamichi Ito, Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy in Luxembourg
Monday 15 December @ 18:30: Carmen Comes Home by Keisuke Kinoshita (1951)
Sunday 21 December @ 17:00: The Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
Saturday 3 January @ 17:45: Tokyo Story by Yasujirō Ozu (1953)
Sunday 4 January @ 19:30: A Story from Chikamatsu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1954; also titled The Crucified Lovers)
Saturday 10 January @ 18:00: The Munekata Sisters by Yasujirō Ozu (1950)
Monday 12 January @ 20:15: The Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
For further details and tickets, see: https://www.cinematheque.lu/fr/japans-golden-age
