The Catch (1983, Soumai Shinji) Film Screening
Council on East Asian Studies
Event time:
Saturday, April 15, 2023 - 7:00pm to 9:20pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ)
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
The Yale Film Archive and the Yale MacMillan Center Council on East Asian Studies present
The Catch (1983, Soumai Shinji, 140 min., 35mm, with English subtitles)
A rugged drama of initiation set in an isolated part of northeastern Japan. A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade (MUBI.com).
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ).