{"title": "Hill of No Return", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Hill of No Return 18 is a screening of Wang Toon's 1992 Taiwanese film at an independent cinema. The final chapter of Wang Toon's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', written by Wu Nien-jen, follows two brothers who leave home in 1927 to work at a Japanese-controlled gold mine, where one marries Ah-Jou (Kuei-Mei Yang) and the other falls for prostitute Fumiko (Mayko Chen). As the Japanese army keeps searching workers for stolen gold, tensions rise. The screening on 13 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration; the film won Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hill-of-no-return-39250/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hill-of-no-return/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e3b6ac90b10538ca2cdadc7873c0688be69b2b1069fa89fc9343c4868958b0e-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": "sold_out"}, {"start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": "sold_out"}, {"start": "2026-12-06T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Banana Paradise", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Banana Paradise is a screening of Wang Toon's 1989 Taiwanese film, part of The Garden Cinema's Made in Taiwan season. It follows a naive young man who follows the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949, adopting false names as he adjusts to life amid turbulent socio-economic changes. The film, the second chapter in Wang's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', addresses the cruelties of martial law as a tragicomic melodrama, alongside rural-urban migration and the demands of modernisation. The screening on 8 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration, with Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Chang Shih and Wen Ying in the cast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/banana-paradise-39242/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/banana-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/02c5ee45227451c88fddecaad75485afdf9a927d15832ff668d82692aa9fe4dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Strawman", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Strawman is a 1987 Taiwanese film screening at The Garden Cinema. Directed by Wang Toon, it opens his 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy' and is shot by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, winning six Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film. Set in 1940s Taiwan, it follows two impoverished tenant farmers who, finding an unexploded American bomb in their field, carry it to the Japanese authorities hoping for a reward, as their plan spirals into absurdity. The film stars Cho Sheng Li, Chang Po-Chou and Yang Kuei-Mei.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/strawman-39239/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/strawman/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9388f1a7dd5ad17413873b4ed59e125974ccd9fb1b3f6b28a8690bb1a5e6fdda-600.webp"}, {"title": "Taipei Story", "start": "2026-11-11T14:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Taipei Story is Edward Yang's 1985 film about Lung, who runs a traditional textile business, and Chin, an assistant at a construction company, a couple whose dreams of marriage and emigration in a developing Taipei begin to unravel as they desperately try to maintain their relationship. The film depicts the alienation of urban life and was made in collaboration with Taiwan New Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who takes the male lead and serves as screenwriter and producer. It stars Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Chin and Ko I-Chen. Yang's exceptional directorial skills are a testament to the camaraderie among New Cinema filmmakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/taipei-story-39247/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/taipei-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df78385e0e62858f02e2617d20e19f19468d04a76d57bd296ef2249f21eda796-600.webp"}, {"title": "Made in Taiwan", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Made in Taiwan is a season of screenings dedicated to Taiwanese cinema, running from 24 October to 6 December 2026. It is presented by The Garden Cinema and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and is the fourth edition of the cinema's annual Taiwanese film season. At its heart is a focus on cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who joins in London for seven films from his five-decade career, including his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien. The programme also brings classic and contemporary Taiwanese works by filmmakers such as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, King Hu, Wang Toon, Huang Ya-li, Chen Kuo-fu and Hsin Chi, alongside Q&As and introductions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/made-in-taiwan-39287/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0514bb360a48417c6b3862d09a30e4add3aab83384fb4f6cc19302d1a6bbec9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Raise the Red Lantern", "start": "2026-11-06T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Raise the Red Lantern is a film by Zhang Yimou from 1991, shown in a new digital restoration. It follows Songlian (Gong Li), an educated young woman sold into marriage with the rich tyrant Master Chen, who must navigate the maze of political and sexual challenges within the fortress-like Qiao Family Compound among his four competing wives. Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice in 1991, it is considered perhaps Zhang's most accomplished film and the culmination of his 'Red Trilogy'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raise-the-red-lantern-39238/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/raise-the-red-lantern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3974183ed0475c1eb1127e625652682f475e9408410ee23345ae168df356658-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Lower Depths: The Cinema of Shohei Imamura: My Shimokita + The Pirates of Bubuan + Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home", "start": "2026-11-15T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "This is a programme of three mid-length television documentaries by the Japanese director Shohei Imamura, screening together at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The films turn toward the rural, the regional and the stateless: one visits the hometown of Imamura's mentor Yuzo Kawashima in the Shimokita Peninsula and its rituals of mourning, one explores the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines and tensions between Muslim Tausug and indigenous Badjao communities, and one follows a former soldier whose return to postwar Japan exposes how the nation abandoned those who served it. Across all three, Imamura's frank on-camera interviewing style undercuts the idea of national unity and meets people left outside the modernising state. The programme has a total runtime of 124 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-lower-depths-the-cinema-of-shohei-imamura-my-shimokita-t-74155/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-pirates-of-bubuan-outlaw-matsu-returns-home", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cb3d043587b3970d680caf787ebd431e8d10967a84e200ff03c26e698ea38b7a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Lower Depths", "start": "2026-11-15T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/wwii"], "description": "This is a screening of 'In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers', a pair of television documentaries about Japanese soldiers who stayed in the countries where they were stationed instead of returning home after the war. Shōhei Imamura narrates the films and appears on screen as interviewer, travelling across Southeast Asia in search of these soldiers. He hopes to learn about their choice and the lives they have led since the war ended. The conversations range from the cordial to the probing, touching on the Japanese character, the Emperor, the communist party, and wartime massacres committed by Japanese soldiers across Southeast Asia.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-lower-depths-74154/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-unreturned-soldier", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d20464aeef6c2581aac448fc446fa8ec84852f61f5b2589dae6daaa757c74ec-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "Better Go Mad in the Wild", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "An award-winning, playful documentary about identical twins František and Ondřej, who live on their own terms on a ramshackle farm deep in the Šumava Mountains, tending animals, swimming in forest lakes, writing poetry and bickering. It is made by Miro Remo, who blends semi-staged vignettes, striking visuals, a talking cow and anarchic humour to blur reality and fairy tale. The film follows František, who dreams of freedom and adventure, and Ondřej, who longs for the familiar, as their bond is put to the test. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the director.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-39234/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fc64233c4f7f1fb949bb66eed73fdb04e7c39e61a93394bebc0045d4bfc76fe-600.webp"}, {"title": "History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/japan"], "description": "A screening of History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess, a documentary in which Madame Onboro recounts her life in bar lounge conversations with filmmaker Shōhei Imamura, who acts as an inquisitive interviewer. Her story is told mostly orally, juxtaposed and paralleled with the grand events and movements of Japanese society in the postwar years, accompanied at times by newsreel reportage. She guides viewers through raising children, running a business and searching for a suitable partner. As compelling as Imamura's best fictional portraits, the film shows his love for honest, unconventional and often unruly characters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/history-of-postwar-japan-as-told-by-a-bar-hostess-74145/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-bar-hostess", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01a67de015e144cd2556f4fe4ef79bc7204286548a44d574ea424339b1178e32-1200.webp"}, {"title": "An Unfinished Film", "start": "2026-11-08T15:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A cinema screening of the film 'An Unfinished Film'. The film follows a film crew who reunite near Wuhan in January 2020 to resume shooting a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown. It is presented as a story of interrupted art meeting an unforeseen global crisis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/an-unfinished-film-69834/", "official_url": "https://genesis.admit-one.co.uk/details/?eventCode=97723", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ca13c4a77b9d37e7b481e29b939ac8c151cacf43c7213d52a9f57e1ab2300f4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Assassin", "start": "2026-11-05T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "8.50", "price_to": "8.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/action/martial-arts"], "description": "The Assassin is a wuxia film about Nie Yinniang, a general's daughter trained by a nun as an exceptional assassin who is sent back to her birthplace with orders to kill the cousin she was once betrothed to, now the leader of the largest independent military region in North China. It is the final feature film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, who reunites with leading actress Shu Qi in a sublime, impressionistic take on the genre, also starring Chang Chen, Zhou Yun and Satoshi Tsumabuki.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-assassin-39231/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/the-assassin-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9099b116afa528a869da70904d98fd61806ec8c7283ac7343f3b02b43f373e6c-600.webp"}]}