{"title": "Pigs and Battleships", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00Z", "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/crime-drama"], "description": "Pigs and Battleships is a 1962 Japanese film about small-time gangsters locked in desperate power struggles in the port town of Yokosuka. Director Shōhei Imamura drew on his own experiences as a black market peddler in post-war Tokyo, telling of Kinta, a young hood trying to rise through his sub-Yakuza gang, and Haruko, a headstrong young woman seeking a better life. As the couple find themselves encircled by violence and manipulation, beset by gangsters and soldiers, the film becomes an angry portrait of the US occupation and Japan's venal ambition. Shot in CinemaScope, it marked Imamura's arrival as a major voice in Japanese cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pigs-and-battleships-74116/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-pigs-and-battleships", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": ""}, {"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": "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": "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": "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": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-02T15:10:00Z", "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": "Paper Tiger", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "£19.99", "price_from": "19.99", "price_to": "19.99", "tickets_url": "https://web.picturehouses.com/order/showtimes/022-123479/tickets?_gl=1*bf55s5*_gcl_au*MTExMjY4Njk4Mi4xNzg4OTY3OTMz", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller/crime-thriller", "history/jewish-history"], "description": "A screening of the crime-thriller 'Paper Tiger'. It was directed by James Gray and stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller. The film follows Jewish brothers Gary and Irwin Pearl, who become entangled in a dangerous business deal with the Russian Mafia in 1980s Queens, New York, while Irwin's wife Hester deals with serious health issues.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paper-tiger-37889/", "official_url": "https://ukjewishfilm.org/event/paper-tiger/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b5d5620778e4ae0a410c90d5f61df4797fef062ac3c3bf261bbe83fe0a849ae9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Godzilla Minus Zero", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction/monster-movie"], "description": "Godzilla Minus Zero is a feature film screening. Takashi Yamazaki directs, with Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Miou Tanaka and others starring. Set in 1949, two years after Godzilla Minus One, it follows the Shikishima family as a new threat strikes just when Japan has clung to a hard-won peace. The film was shot with IMAX-certified cameras and promises Godzilla at all-new terrifying heights.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/godzilla-minus-zero-37862/", "official_url": "https://spotlight.picturehouses.com/movie-details/011/HO00018698/godzilla-minus-zero", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e32d5f07bd3478b334c628dd2b1b4b40247e519018bf36735dc67c106268edc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Godzilla", "start": "2026-11-02T20:25:00Z", "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/horror/monster-horror"], "description": "Godzilla is a Japanese monster film in which a rampaging radioactive beast, born of a nation reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific, becomes an international icon of destruction. Directed by Ishirô Honda, it stars Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada and Akihiko Hirata. The roaring granddaddy of all monster movies is also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, and it spawned almost thirty sequels. Its poignant beast embodies an entire population's fears.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/godzilla-64017/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/1865881/godzilla-1954", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24904955baa514714b193cf98a887dc0a86121ba02b911a1ed7b068e23ad465b-1200.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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "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": "Fire Festival", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "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": ["film/drama"], "description": "Fire Festival is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, about a lumberjack in a rural seaside village who resists tourism development while his community is transformed by economic pressures. It will be introduced by strand curator George Crosthwait, in association with Third Window Films, which releases the film on Blu-ray in December. The film was shown in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and stars Kinya Kitaoji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki and Junko Miyashita.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fire-festival-39245/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/fire-festival/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab2fe5dbd414901ce69b17d8f8aafc8a299d8c6eceaabe0ebfeeabbd861f6d41-1200.webp"}]}