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 Apr 29, 2024.
- No events scheduled for Apr 30, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 1, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 2, 2024.
- No events scheduled for May 3, 2024.
Week of Events
Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity
Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity
This harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicts the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.
Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity
Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity
Part two of Shimizu's harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicting the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household, who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.
A Hero of Tokyo
A Hero of Tokyo
In just over an hour of tautly paced, plot-filled action, Shimizu unspools the tragic generational tale of Kenichi, a boy whose backsliding father abandons him.
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Hiroshi Shimizu’s most celebrated silent film—about the jealousy that ensnares devoted Catholic school mates Sunako and Dora as they both fall for the motorcycle-sporting playboy Henry—screens with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on 5/4.
Forget Love for Now
Forget Love for Now
This devastating story of a single mother Oyuki who supports herself and her son Haruo by working at a “chabuya,” a hostess bar catering to foreigners, is set in the cosmopolitan harbor city of Yokohama.
A Woman Crying in Spring
A Woman Crying in Spring
Shimizu’s first talkie enacts another tale of fallen womanhood and migrant struggle.
Mr. Thank You
Mr. Thank You
Screening 5/5, Hiroshi Shimizu's beloved road movie fashions a tour of depression-era Japan that deserves mention in the company of Ford’s Stagecoach and Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange.