{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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"}, {"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": "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": "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": "NAZA", "start": "2026-11-06T20:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Phoenix Cinema", "address": "52 High Rd, London N2 9PJ, UK", "price": "£6", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "15.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/israel-palestine"], "description": "NAZA is a documentary film screening. In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them. It is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, produced with the team behind The Zone of Interest, and includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders; the two directors are also among the four behind No Other Land, which won the 2025 Oscar for best documentary. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/naza-34653/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=667515", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e0e704f8ae75651c832bc0e809bb53b55f5d1df9ba211911220f49a603eafe8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-10T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "Army of Lovers (or Revolt of the Perverts)", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "A screening of Rosa von Praunheim's documentary, made over seven years (1972-79) about the work and goals of the queer emancipation movement in the US, especially in New York and San Francisco. It challenges the gay and lesbian community who were often still afraid to speak openly and shines a light on hardcore activism and pioneering voices. The film is presented by Pink Palace, a low-fi weekly queer film club in the cinema's basement bar, where each film is introduced by curator Andrew Woodyatt. It is part of 'Pink, Kitsch & Revolution: The Filmmaker and Activist Rosa von Praunheim', organised by Pink Palace / The Rio Cinema and the Goethe-Institut London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/army-of-lovers-or-revolt-of-the-perverts-38195/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Love Exposure", "start": "2026-11-16T19:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A screening of the Japanese comedy Love Exposure, directed by Sion Sono and starring Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima and Sakura Andô. It tells of a teenage boy, Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he meets while working as an \"up-skirt\" photographer in a porn industry offshoot. His courtship is complicated by cross-dressing that convinces Yoko she is lesbian, kung-fu and crime, and the guilt left by his Catholic upbringing. It runs 237 minutes and carries an 18 certificate for very strong bloody violence and sex references.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/love-exposure-64081/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617033/love-exposure", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77c4bf0ea11cb8e7f67231237755d440d25bdc937688db68550eb370d1dcf542-1200.webp"}]}