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A black and white photo of three Japanese boys in white caps sitting forlornly with their chins in their hands on the edge of a house's front porch.

Children in the Wind

In Shimizu’s most renowned and adored film in Japan, the idyllic country life of two brothers is suddenly thrown into crisis one summer when their father is wrongly arrested for embezzlement.

A black and white photo of two Japanese women leaning against a wooden pole and looking hopefully into the camera from a high angle.

Sayon’s Bell

Shimizu's film draws on the then widely circulated story of a 17-year-old Taiwanese aboriginal girl whose patriotic zeal so gripped her that she drowned amid a storm while seeing off her Japanese teacher for the Chinese front.

A black and white photo of children in a tree wearing masks and looking down at the camera.

Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer

Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.

A black-and-white image from the 1930s of young Japanese boys dressed in school uniforms and caps standing amidst a sun-dappled field of wheat

Four Seasons of Children: Autumn/Winter

Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.

A black and white photo of a Japanese man and woman standing by a tree outside; he looks at her, she looks off past the camera.

Ornamental Hairpin

Shimizu’s plaintive romance turns on the encounter between a convalescing soldier (Ozu stalwart Chishu Ryū) and a young woman (the great Kinuyo Tanaka) fleeing her sordid past at a secluded mountain spa.

A black and white photo of a Japanese man and woman standing on the shore of a beach, looking off, as lines of children in formation in the background of the shot face the water

Introspection Tower

This collection of vignettes set in the titular rural hilltop reformatory might be the most soberly realistic of Shimizu’s many films about children.

A black and white photo of two men in hats and uniforms standing and facing each other in a field of grass amidst other children figures who surround and watch them.

A Star Athlete

Shimizu’s episodic sports comedy is a favorite among film historians for its virtuoso passages of camera movement, including a sublime 40-shot march along a country road that’s pure back-and-forth axial motion.

A black and white photo of a woman in classical Japanese clothing holding an elaborate parasol.

The Masseurs and a Woman

Shimizu’s most eccentrically personal film, which he conceived and wrote himself and shot on his favored Izu peninsula, follows a pair of blind masseuses who come across a variety of characters whose dilemmas range from tragic to comic, suggesting another of Shimizu’s cross-sections of contemporary Japan.

Five people stand in a dark room in an old house with cobwebs in a black and white image
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House on Haunted Hill

This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle stars horror icon Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances. 

A test pilot in orange and aviator sunglasses standing in front of an airplane
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The Right Stuff

Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.