Hard Light Cinema

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Based on two manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, who rose to underground celebrity thanks to his surrealist tales published in the pages of the bastion of Japanese avant-garde cartooning, Garo, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo (Yuumi Kawai and Mansaku Takada) and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Ben-zō (Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi).

Winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and hailed “a true masterpiece” by Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Japan’s greatest living film critic, Two Seasons, Two Strangers is at one and the same time as simple as its straightforward title suggests and immensely, exhilaratingly complex.

We will also have Brian’s Books tabling at the screening! Come say hi and pick up one of Tsuge’s excellent collections 📕

Thanks to Richmond-based cartoonist Dash Shaw for the beautiful poster he’s made for this event! Prints will be available at the screening 🫶

Dash will also be joining us on August 19 for the release party celebrating his new graphic novel Like Swimmers, where we’ll be hosting a free screening of Claude Chabrol’s under-seen 1992 masterpiece Betty! Copies of the book (before it hits the streets!) and prints of the event poster will be available at the screening. Full details and RSVP for that event here.