"Ugetsu is a timeless masterpiece."--Phillip Lopate, Criterion Collection

Free lecture by Dr. Richard Torrance at 6 PM. Second film start time: 8:45 PM. Set amidst civil strife in 16th-century Japan, the haunting ghost story Ugetsu follows two men who put their families at risk in obsessive pursuit of riches and glory. (97 mins., 35mm)

In Sisters of Gion, two geisha sisters--one old-fashioned, one modern in outlook--find themselves at odds over whether or not to take in a bankrupt patron. (69 mins., 35mm)

Come early! At 6 PM, Dr. Richard Torrance, associate professor of Japanese in Ohio State's Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and director of the Institute for Japanese Studies, offers a free lecture on Mizoguchi and his work. He'll discuss the historical context of Mizoguchi's films, the trajectory of Mizoguchi's career, his interaction with Japan's developing film industry, and the deeply humanistic ethos that infused Japanese artistic circles and Mizoguchi's own cinematic productions during his life.