{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "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": "", "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": "Intentions of Murder", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Intentions of Murder is a screening of Shōhei Imamura's 1964 film about Sadako, a young housewife bullied by her mother-in-law and philandering husband, whose life is violently upended when a home invader assaults her and later returns to profess his love. The film slips between dreams, memories and misremembrances as her family treats her like a slave and her days unfold in gruelling detail. Imamura lays bare the contradictions of Japan's rapid industrialization, showing how the drive towards modernity is undermined by violent desires and primal superstitions. Brutal and beautiful, it builds to an apogee of his work in his first decade.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/intentions-of-murder-80687/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-intentions-of-murder", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe00e9e4b5808f6a6c58aef12119ecd3317fbb0d0348d6659be71d425073cc64-1200.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": "", "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/films/imamura-a-man-vanishes", "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": "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://bookings.thegardencinema.co.uk/TheGardenCinema.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_6148809.TcsSection_971", "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": "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": "", "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": "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": "https://princecharlescinema.com/prince-charles-cinema/booknow/31628218", "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": "Shinto craftsmanship in Ise between people and kami (talk with Miyachu)", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Japan House", "address": "Kensington High Street 101-111, W8 5SA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history", "religion"], "description": "A talk about Shinto craftsmanship in Ise, the home of Ise Jingū, Japan's most important Shinto shrine. The speaker is Kawanishi Yōsuke, Shinto priest and President of Miyachu, an Ise-based maker of kami-dana (household shrines) and shingu (Shinto ritual implements) founded in 1938. He explores how craftsmanship can bridge people and kami, discussing the selection of natural materials, passing skills to future generations and sustaining these traditions in a changing world. The talk forms part of a programme presented with Ise City, within the Spotlight on Local Japan Programme with JNTO.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/shinto-craftsmanship-in-ise-between-people-and-kami-talk-wit-41598/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Fire Festival 18", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://bookings.thegardencinema.co.uk/TheGardenCinema.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_6308249.TcsSection_638", "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-18-39245/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/fire-festival/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab2fe5dbd414901ce69b17d8f8aafc8a299d8c6eceaabe0ebfeeabbd861f6d41-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction/dystopian"], "description": "Chester Film Society presents a screening of the feature film Resurrection, made up with Picturehouse as part of a diverse programme of world cinema. In a future where humanity has traded its ability to dream for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), it conjures vast, ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. The cast also includes Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resurrection-37898/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f0c814ca4adf71d9c1bbb8a00795a309d4e1b0530e9ddfd45c2bbb9d95baee6-1200.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": "https://spotlight.picturehouses.com/movie-details/011/HO00018698/godzilla-minus-zero", "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": "Native Spirit Film Festival: Gods & Devils: Postindian Survivance", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nativespiritfestival/2502706", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A shorts programme of films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A. Kalaallisut artist Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller presents his Super 8 visual poetry, followed by nine Turtle Island films including a Louis Riel historical drama, animated spray-painted murals, Naskapi vampirism, and Cree astronomer 'Wilfred Buck's Star Stories'. Native Spirit is the UK's first and longest-running independent film festival promoting Native filmmakers, artists, narrative and visual sovereignty, and languages worldwide, founded by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil. Some films contain themes of colonial violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/native-spirit-film-festival-gods-devils-postindian-survivanc-80664/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e129c857890c93ea05426a7273eed1ef901fedc04014ec000d85aa7e3ae2e117-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Holy Mountain", "start": "2026-11-10T12:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/prince-charles-cinema/booknow/31628308", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/cult"], "description": "The Holy Mountain is a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film, in which he also stars alongside Horacio Salinas and Zamira Saunders. In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist assembles a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets of the solar system. After mystical rites divest them of their worldly baggage, the alchemist leads his messianic recruit and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain. There they hope to ascend and achieve enlightenment by displacing the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-holy-mountain-64050/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/15034200/the-holy-mountain", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa5b756deac88e049e3dbad8cc6bdd82325d031e70292ef2f945075339e2878-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Godzilla", "start": "2026-11-03T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/prince-charles-cinema/booknow/31628222", "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": "Experience Ise's Okihiki Festival: Make a Zai and sing Kiyari work songs", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Japan House", "address": "Kensington High Street 101-111, W8 5SA London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/japan", "religion"], "description": "A hands-on workshop about the Okihiki Festival of Ise Grand Shrine, part of Shikinen Sengū, the once-every-20-years renewal of Japan's most important Shinto shrine. Led by Kawanishi Masahiko of Miyachu, a sacred straw rope artisan from Ise who leads kiyari work songs in his local Okihiki group. After an introduction to the festival's history and significance, participants make zai, the signalling batons used to direct Okihiki processions, from wooden sticks and washi paper, and learn to sing kiyari uta, the rhythmic work songs chanted during the festival. The event forms part of a wider programme presented in collaboration with Ise City within the Spotlight on Local Japan Programme, organized with the Japan National Tourism Organization.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/experience-ises-okihiki-festival-make-a-zai-and-sing-kiyari-41599/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}