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Robinson's Garden () [In-Person Only]
Wed Feb 15: 7.30pm PDT
Thu Feb 16: 7.30pm PDT
Fri Feb 17: 7.30pm PDT
Sat Feb 18: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Sun Feb 19: 4.00pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Wed Feb 22: 7.00pm PDT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Masashi Yamamoto
Japan
1987
1h 59m
About
(Masashi Yamamoto, Japan, 1987, 119 min, in English & Japanese with English subtitles)
On a drunken walk home, bohemian drug-dealer Kumi (Kumiko Ota) discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by the vast and untapped space rampant with luxuriant vegetation, she promptly sells all of her belongings and retreats from the world. She carves an island out of the concrete squat and wiles her days away growing cabbage and expressing herself in any way she pleases.
Following his gonzo hachimiri (8mm) debut Saint Terrorism (1980) and the memorable Carnival in the Night (1981), Masashi Yamamoto offers his defining punk statement. Winner of a Special Mention at the 1987 Locarno International Film Festival, Robinsons Garden is a rare, radical vision of a marginal, multicultural Tokyo. Think Punk Rock rather than City Pop (the soundtrack features Jagatara, Hamza El Din, and Yoichiro Yoshikawa), this film offers a stark contrast to the sights of financial prosperity brought forth by the films of the Economic Bubble era. Lensed by Tom DiCillo (director of Living in Oblivion, Johnny Suede; cinematographer of Stranger Than Paradise), it instead shares much in common with the No Wave films the cinematographer pioneered alongside Jim Jarmusch. An unsung, anticapitalist masterwork.
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