Three films by Japanese director Somai Shinji screen at The Cinematheque, November 4 to 13

Masterful lineup includes P.P. Rider (1983), Typhoon Club (1985), and Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1982)

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Typhoon Club (1985). Still from film by Somai Shinji

Long overdue, The Cinematheque presents three masterful full-length films by Japanese director Somai Shinji, each screening three times from November 4 to 13.

P.P. Rider (1983), Typhoon Club (1985), and Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1982) will be shown following their re-introduction to North American audiences at Japan Society’s retrospective in New York earlier this year.

Though often overlooked by influential English-language film historians, Shinji is a figurehead for the Japanese directors that emerged as iconoclasts in the 1990s and 2000s. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After the Storm is an explicit homage to Shinji’s Typhoon Club, while Takeshi Kitano’s Sonatine likewise arrives at its moment of transformation by way of a downpour.

Restlessly inventive, Shinji operated at an elevated level for two decades before his work was cut short. He died in 2001 at age 53 from cancer, having completed 13 films.

Ticket details and more information about each of the films is available here.

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