Tokyo Dreams - Branded to Kill & Tokyo Toy Boy - 5 March 7.30pm @ Rio Cinema, Dalston
A night to celebrate the dreams and anti-dreams of Tokyo, Japan.
DJs before and after the film including Karis O’Hara
DJ from 7pm
Seijun Suzuki’s bonkers super stylish masterpiece about the third rated assassin in Japan - it’s so much more than a Yakuza flick - more in the vein of a hard boiled soundtrack heavy brilliant cool New Wave looking 60s fashion film - we think you’ll love it - We’ve also got a truly enlightening short documentary from Belgium Graduate Esli Khan Balatova we unearthed in the Artsthread 2024 Global Graduate competition (it won)
Branded to Kill
Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Japan 1967, 91 minutes
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.
Tokyo Toy Boy
Dir, Esli Khan Balatov
Belguim 2024, 29 minutes
Through an intimate portrait, the documentary explores the battle between self-destruction and a better day tomorrow. Kazuho, a 24-year-old former host boy in the shady neighborhoods of Tokyo, bears the scars of a lost generation. Tokyo Toy Boy follows Kazuho's inner struggle. Between the urge for death and the hope for tomorrow, he quietly fights on and shows the struggles of young adults worldwide.
A night to celebrate the dreams and anti-dreams of Tokyo, Japan.
DJs before and after the film including Karis O’Hara
DJ from 7pm
Seijun Suzuki’s bonkers super stylish masterpiece about the third rated assassin in Japan - it’s so much more than a Yakuza flick - more in the vein of a hard boiled soundtrack heavy brilliant cool New Wave looking 60s fashion film - we think you’ll love it - We’ve also got a truly enlightening short documentary from Belgium Graduate Esli Khan Balatova we unearthed in the Artsthread 2024 Global Graduate competition (it won)
Branded to Kill
Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Japan 1967, 91 minutes
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.
Tokyo Toy Boy
Dir, Esli Khan Balatov
Belguim 2024, 29 minutes
Through an intimate portrait, the documentary explores the battle between self-destruction and a better day tomorrow. Kazuho, a 24-year-old former host boy in the shady neighborhoods of Tokyo, bears the scars of a lost generation. Tokyo Toy Boy follows Kazuho's inner struggle. Between the urge for death and the hope for tomorrow, he quietly fights on and shows the struggles of young adults worldwide.
A night to celebrate the dreams and anti-dreams of Tokyo, Japan.
DJs before and after the film including Karis O’Hara
DJ from 7pm
Seijun Suzuki’s bonkers super stylish masterpiece about the third rated assassin in Japan - it’s so much more than a Yakuza flick - more in the vein of a hard boiled soundtrack heavy brilliant cool New Wave looking 60s fashion film - we think you’ll love it - We’ve also got a truly enlightening short documentary from Belgium Graduate Esli Khan Balatova we unearthed in the Artsthread 2024 Global Graduate competition (it won)
Branded to Kill
Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Japan 1967, 91 minutes
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.
Tokyo Toy Boy
Dir, Esli Khan Balatov
Belguim 2024, 29 minutes
Through an intimate portrait, the documentary explores the battle between self-destruction and a better day tomorrow. Kazuho, a 24-year-old former host boy in the shady neighborhoods of Tokyo, bears the scars of a lost generation. Tokyo Toy Boy follows Kazuho's inner struggle. Between the urge for death and the hope for tomorrow, he quietly fights on and shows the struggles of young adults worldwide.