Japan Society and Metrograph have teamed up to co-present “Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us,” a rare 30-film retrospective devoted to the “fourth great” master of Japanese cinema. Co ...

Numerous small cinemas in Japan ... an untimely death in 1990, taking his own life. Sugawara's motivation for getting involved in the film was simple. "We wanted to make movies we wanted to ...