Through a joint organization between the Buenos Aires Theater Complex and the Argentine Cinemateca Foundation, added to the collaboration of the Cultural and Information Center of the Embassy of Japan, A Japanese film series will be carried out based on the filmography of director Masaki Kobayashi.

Reunion with a master of Japanese cinema is the name of the cycle that will begin on Thursday 19 October and will run until 2 November in the Lugones room of the complex located on Corrientes Avenue 1530.

Total, there will be ten films that will be screened by the prestigious director -many of them unpublished in our country- in 35mm copies specially sent from Tokyo by The Japan Foundation.

With this cycle, viewers will be able to appreciate a retrospective of the director born in 1916, one of the most important that the Japanese scene had in the postwar era.

With respect to entries, will have a cost of 40 pesos and can be purchased on the day of the performance, at the box office of the complex. Students and retirees, with corresponding accreditation, will pay 20 pesos.

The film that will open the cycle will be Sincerity (1953), starting at 16.30, film that focuses on the story of a high school student who falls madly in love with his neighbor, a middle class girl suffering from a delicate disease.

Later, that same day it will be screened (to 19) The thick-walled room (1956).

Other titles that make up the cycle are I will buy you (1956), Black river (1957), The Heritage (1962), Harakiri (1962), Kwaidan (1964), Rebellion (1967), Hymn for a weary man (1968) and the inn of evil (1971).