JapanCulture•NYC x Japan Society Ticket Giveaway!
🚨🎟️GIVEAWAY ALERT ‼️
We're teaming up with our friends at Japan Society Film for a ticket giveaway to the screening of Dogra Magra on Friday, December 15 at 9:00 p.m.!
Japan Society Film is generously giving five pairs of tickets to this Japanese mystery fiction fantasy extravaganza by Toshio Matsumoto! That means five winners will each take a +1 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Matsumoto's final feature!
DETAILS
🎥 Dogra Magra
📅 Friday, December 15
⏰ 9:00pm
📍 Japan Society – 333 E. 47th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
HOW TO ENTER
🎯Follow @japanculturenyc, @jsfilmnyc, and @japansociety on Instagram
🏷️ Tag @japanculturenyc in an Instagram post related to Japanese Culture in New York City (food, drink, film, art, music, books, crafts)
☠️ Deadline: Thursday, December 14 at 12:00pm
🏆 Winners announced Thursday, December 14 by 6:00pm
© 1988 KATSUJIN DO CINEMA
ABOUT DOGRA MAGRA
Based on one of the Sandaikisho (Three Great Occult Books) of Japanese mystery fiction, Toshio Matsumoto’s fourth and final feature adapts the unadaptable: a filmed version of surrealist 1935 avant-garde classic Dogra Magra written by Kyusaku Yumeno—the famous detective novelist whose pen name fittingly translates to “person who always dreams.”
In Taisho 15, the period’s final year, an amnesiac awakens in a sanatorium without recollection of his name or face. Forced to reconstruct his memory, the patient is accosted by two doctors (including one purported to be deceased) who relate his condition in differing fashions, complicating whether physicians are telling the truth or playing a Fowlesian godgame.
Working with frequent cinematographer Tatsuo Suzuki (Himiko, Pastoral: To Die in the Country), Matsumoto constructs a disorienting Jungian work, overwrought with conspiracies and intermingling tales. Delivering intra-womb fetuses, red herrings, and false revelations, Dogra Magra unfurls a complex tapestry of alternating histories—resulting in a whirlwind tragedy brought on by fantasies of eternal recurrence.
Dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1988, 109 min., 35mm, color, in Japanese with live English subtitles. With Yoji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Eri Misawa.
This screening is part of Japan Society’s current series Taisho Roman: Fever Dreams of the Great Rectitude, running through December 16. To see the remaining films and to purchase tickets, please visit Japan Society’s website.
Huge thanks to Japan Society, Japan Society Film, and Peter Tatara for making this giveaway possible.
📸: © 1988 KATSUJIN DO CINEMA
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