Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) has announced that it will present an eight-week celebration of Japanese cinema from July 3 to September 2, 2015. Title “Cult Japan,” the program features more than 50 films including underground classics, horror, comedy, action, and anime, as well as a retrospective of work by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s most celebrated animator and director.José Da Silva, Head of the Australian Cinémathèque at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), said: “Fans of Japanese animation will be very familiar with Miyazaki’s beautiful handcrafted fables about the environment and social justice, and ‘Cult Japan’ offers a chance to reconnect with these stories and to introduce the filmmaker’s work to new audiences.”The “Cult Japan” program comprises four thematically grouped sections: science fiction, monster movies, and anime favourites in “Strange Creatures and Dark Cities,” ghost stories and strange and malevolent forces in “Cursed People and Places,” stories of honour and revenge in “Tough Guys and Dangerous Women,” and explorations of body, technology, and transformation in “The Body Electric.”Highlights of the program include Miyazaki’s breakthrough films: “The Castle of Cagliostro” 1979 and “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” 1984, new restorations of monster movie “Godzilla” 1954 and cyberpunk classic “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” 1989, as well as rarely-seen archival 35mm prints from The National Film Centre, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
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