{"title": "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/my-shimokita-the-pirates-of-bubuan-outlaw-matsu-returns-home-74155/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-pirates-of-bubuan-outlaw-matsu-returns-home", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cb3d043587b3970d680caf787ebd431e8d10967a84e200ff03c26e698ea38b7a-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T15:30:00Z", "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, "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": "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": "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, "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": "Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening of 'Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute', shown on 16mm. Shohei Imamura follows Zendo Kikuyo, a woman in her seventies who was tricked into leaving Japan for Malaysia at nineteen and never returned. Imamura visits the former brothel where she worked and discusses her life there with bracing frankness. The film exposes how prostitution became an export commodity tied to Japan's economic and military expansion across South East Asia.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/karayuki-san-the-making-of-a-prostitute-74158/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-karayuki-san", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c8b64aa665a861f9015bb7124cd665fa3a159ab389831500011d9a2e868656ad-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On", "start": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is a confrontational 1987 Japanese documentary. It was initiated by Shōhei Imamura, who introduced director Kazuo Hara to its protagonist, the ageing veteran Kenzo Okazaki, a survivor of the desperate battles in Papua New Guinea towards the end of the Second World War. The film follows Okazaki's relentless, increasingly violent and ethically dubious pursuit of his former comrades, uncovering harrowing truths about their execution and the atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army. It also forces the audience to confront the ethical questions of filmmaking itself, with the camera acting as both witness and perpetrator of a different kind.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-emperors-naked-army-marches-on-74159/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-the-emperors-naked-army-marches-on", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6427821d06b528b00e6aeacf35e2b11b64171af4c1e085e36ad7a60d9dc872d8-1200.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, "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": "Minotaur + My Skin, Luminous", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of two films by Nicolás Pereda, Minotaur and My Skin, Luminous, co-directed with Gabino Rodríguez, moving from domestic seclusion to the classrooms and countryside of rural Mexico, finding unexpected paths from the mundane towards the dreamlike. Minotaur follows three thirty-somethings in a Mexico City apartment filled with books, passing languid afternoons reading, sleeping and receiving occasional visitors, while outside Mexico is burning and time inside seems barely to pass. My Skin, Luminous begins with footage ostensibly commissioned to document improvements to Mexico's public schools, giving way at a primary school in Michoacán to the story of Matías, an orphaned boy isolated from his classmates after mysteriously losing the pigment in his skin. Together the films reveal Pereda's gift for allowing ordinary spaces to quietly harbour other worlds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/minotaur-my-skin-luminous-74151/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/pereda-minotaur-my-skin-luminous", "image": "https://noky.io/images/868372f5bae8a888deb89d833678033aac20ebbeebccf89595701c453c5f3a59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hill of No Return", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00Z", "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"}, {"title": "Film Screening: South by South", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:45:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "film/documentary"], "description": "An evening screening of two films by Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir: the short 'Hairat', about a man in Harar who has bonded with hyenas for over thirty-five years, and 'Faya Dayi', a hypnotic blend of documentary and drama about the rituals and trade of the stimulant leaf Khat in Ethiopia. The films were programmed by A Month of Single Frames, a film collective led by Ufuoma Essi, Sam Williams and Tendai Mutambu dedicated to artists' moving image, with this event curated by South East London artist and filmmaker Ufuoma Essi. The screening contains depictions of drug use and addiction and themes of violence and political repression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-screening-south-by-south-38710/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/film-screening-south-by-south-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b6105be0573e1ff52b0093fc32daa13f70574dd0e2d7f0ec170bf29c492c44d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "A major solo exhibition by the artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North Gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment. Over three decades, the New Delhi-based artist has created lyrical films and multi-video installations moving between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. Shaped by the history of the Indian subcontinent, his work investigates the legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, bearing witness to displacement, power, violence, justice and memory. Visitors encounter a trilogy of films, including Such a Morning (2017), The Peacock's Graveyard (2023) and the new seven-screen installation The Charcoal Man (2026), premiering at Serpentine, with the darkened galleries shown in very low light and moments of complete darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amar-kanwar-38472/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e75635bbf02f40fbbb179b67fd202dfbf16baebc7e3c4474606c179f6eedc66d-2000.webp"}]}