CALENDAR
GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
- No events scheduled for May 6, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 7, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 8, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 9, 2024.
Week of Events
Children in the Wind
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. Screens Friday, 5/10.
Sayon’s Bell
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.
Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer
Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer
Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this first part of the 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. Screening 5/11.
Four Seasons of Children: Autumn/Winter
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.
Ornamental Hairpin
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.
Introspection Tower
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 Star Athlete
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.
The Masseurs and a Woman
The Masseurs and a Woman
Shimizu’s most eccentrically personal film, screening 5/12, follows a pair of blind masseuses who come across a variety of characters whose dilemmas range from tragic to comic.