WASHINGTON FILM INSTITUTE presents an NHK WORLD-JAPAN SCREENING: A
STRANGER IN SHANGHAI
A STRANGER IN SHANGHAI
China was in turmoil in 1921 when renowned Japanese novelist,
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, (author of “Rashomon”) visits Shanghai as a
newspaper correspondent. He’d read classic Chinese novels growing up
but China is quite different from the utopian place that he was
expecting. It’s hard for him to reconcile fantasy with reality. In a
country lost between hope and despair, the novelist meets a variety of
locals from revolutionaries to prostitutes, each affecting him in
unexpected ways…
6:30 - 7:15PM
_Complimentary Reception_
7:15PM
_Screening Begins
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_Q&A with the Producers Follows_
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