{"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, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "A Man Vanishes", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A Man Vanishes is a film by Japanese director Shōhei Imamura, made in 1967. It begins as an investigative documentary into the mysterious disappearance of a Tokyo salesman named Ôshima. As Imamura, actor Tsuyuguchi Shigeru, and Ôshima's fiancé continue the search, their investigation is outpaced by the complexity of their subject, their own characters, and the film's restless invention. Through overlapping interviews sketching Ôshima's character and last days, Imamura builds a serpentine collage of facts, opinions and hearsay about how we present ourselves and how reality is constructed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-man-vanishes-74134/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-a-man-vanishes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96dcbd99ac377043db0a88cd9d79117c840dfb0bbce777313ec8efe35b8fa8d3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Insect Woman", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film The Insect Woman, with an introduction by Irene González-López, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck College. Shōhei Imamura's film follows Tomé, a woman with an irrepressible will to survive whose life is defined by privation, lust and tragedy, sweeping through the underbelly of twentieth-century Japan from rural fields in 1918 to the factories and brothels of 1950s Tokyo. An unsparing, elliptical epic of generational poverty and abuse, anchored by an astonishing performance from Sachiko Hidari and praised for its immaculate deep focus staging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-insect-woman-74122/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-the-insect-woman", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a34f5c925efd12e03a09b2041ed17ff78dab073cde9db3e05003e4d342895f37-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Pornographers", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of The Pornographers, Shohei Imamura's 1966 film about a small-time pornographer, occasional pimp and bootleg viagra salesman whose work revolves entirely around sex, until his own desires stray from his common-law wife to her teenage daughter. Almost every scene is viewed through a screen of some kind — a door frame, a window, even the water of a fish tank — as Imamura turns to the 'other Japan' of the lower classes and the lower half of the human body, subverting the family drama of his once boss Yasujirō Ozu in almost every way possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-pornographers-74124/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-the-pornographers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a724b8de526cd697dbe780e37496bc84a7e67f423a18dc9fe78264aff716ac8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Profound Desires of the Gods", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Profound Desires of the Gods (神々の深き欲望) is Shōhei Imamura's final fiction film for almost a decade, shown in a screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Set on the fictional island of Kurage, said to have been forged by discarded objects thrown by incestuous brother and sister gods, it follows the outcast Futori family and Kariya, a Tokyo engineer sent to oversee the opening of a sugar manufacturing facility. Beneath the island's paradisiacal surface of lush forests and turquoise seas, Kariya discovers deep-rooted superstitions, privation and duplicities, and over the months he is slowly drawn into the Futori family's way of life. Tracing Japan's evolution from the agrarian to the industrial, the primitive to the modern, the film examines the entire strata of a society while insisting that our foundations remain as desirous and ritualistic as ever.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/profound-desires-of-the-gods-74140/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-profound-desires-of-the-gods", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc5f2e82a69b5bebd3f0b42681d78f574662e3665b7eaefa0a396d93bfea69a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Of Times There Were Before", "start": "2026-11-03T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/historiography"], "description": "A documentary film screening, followed by a discussion with the director. 'Of Times There Were Before' is a portrait of Romila Thapar, one of the world's most influential historians and public intellectuals, filmed at her home in New Delhi. Directed and produced by Eshan Sharma and edited by Anant Raina, it began with the question of who the person behind the historian's name is. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/of-times-there-were-before-43655/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/times-there-were", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab70484a4756c054d26543610c7f85665046d8a07044512675b0a187c2f3a49a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "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": "Watch Party Vol. 1: Cinema Réalité", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Love Affair Basement", "address": "324 - 326 Hackney Road, E2 7AX, London, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/watch-party/watch-party-episode-1-debra-in4k/2026-11-08/18:00/t-ejqorka", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Watch Party: Vol. 1 Cinema Realité is an evening of screenings with film-themed talks, set design, free popcorn and a raffle for a Criterion Collection DVD. The series is hosted by Debrain4k and celebrates cinema at the level of experience. It presents two short documentaries by Les Blank, Gap-Toothed Women (1980) and Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), described as 'cinema realité', a style combining improvisation, close observation and almost no voice-over. The screenings are followed by three short talks from guest speakers and a social.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/watch-party-vol-1-cinema-realite-63579/", "official_url": "https://www.loveaffairbasement.co.uk/events/watch-party-vol-1-cinema-realit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b86e967200f6b2ed2e47b20561df9740cdc0a819c4a8dd25878c053476d8dbc1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "À propos de Nice", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£20/£12", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/53167/53168", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "This is a film screening of À propos de Nice, followed by a talk about 20th-century life in the French Riviera. The film was directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman, and is a 1930 documentary offering a provocative portrait of Nice, capturing both the luxury of the carnival on the promenade and the poverty of the working-class neighbourhoods. After the screening, historian Richard Vinen, who has taught at King's College London since 1991 and specialises in modern France and Europe, will discuss the Riviera's two competing realities: the sun-soaked playground of artists and aristocrats and the poverty of everyday life in the shadow of war and the Great Depression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.webp"}, {"title": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-02T15:25:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A screening of the controversial 1976 Japanese psychological drama 'In the Realm of the Senses'. It is directed by Nagisa Oshima and stars Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima and Taiji Tonoyama. Set in 1936 and based on a true incident, it depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love amid escalating imperialism and governmental control. Still censored in its own country, it is described as less a work of pornography than of politics, a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-the-realm-of-the-senses-64014/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/25079278/in-the-realm-of-the-senses", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db6031f5b00f3e199a2e979c15c0fbef37cf73960dc89d1e46dda1a72f68566c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "90th Anniversary Film Screening", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorich House Museum", "address": "Kingston Vale 67, SW15 3RN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-dora-gordine-ars-gratia-artis-tickets-2003071405495?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*12zmk2e*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTU5Mzg3Nzk3OC4xNzkxNDYwODI3*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3OTE0NjA4MjckbzEkZzEkdDE3OTE0NjA4MzkkajQ4JGwwJGgw", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of the film Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis, marking 90 years since Dora Gordine and Richard Hare married and settled at Dorich House. Made over eight years by filmmaker Annaleena Piel Linnå, the first-ever feature-length film about Gordine traces her life and career from Latvia and Estonia to Paris, Singapore and her London studio home, and features rare recordings of her. Doors open beforehand with a chance to look around the museum, enjoy refreshments and live 1930s-inspired music, and after the screening the filmmaker discusses her research with the museum's curator, Fiona Fisher.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/90th-anniversary-film-screening-35609/", "official_url": "https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2026/10/08/90th-anniversary-film-screening-friday-6-november/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da8dd3d4be6147dc267367cc68e9333a2cb494a711925785d0e21ac2c332b8fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "You Fuckers Figure It Out: A Jason Molina Story", "start": "2026-11-08T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/indie/indie-rock", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening followed by an in-person Q&A with the director. 'You Fuckers Figure It Out: A Jason Molina Story', directed by Tommy Nickoloff, conjures the spirit of indie-rock icon Jason Molina (1973-2013) through Ohio insiders who illuminate his coming of age on Lake Erie and the creation of his legendary band Songs: Ohia. The film celebrates the contradictions of his raunchy humour, propensity to lie and refusal to interpret lyrics, weaving them into a haunting legacy unconfined by the record vault. The Ohio insiders trace how he escaped the indifference of an artless steel town, a story told through those who knew him best.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/you-fuckers-figure-it-out-a-jason-molina-story-74141/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-you-fuckers-figure-it-out-a-jason-molina-story-q-a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e5b26d6438001c5bf2635e7dab574fff7b9091f814db5392b8bad1eb7252b19-1200.webp"}]}