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Hong Kong Heartbeak LNY Film Week

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MAGELLAN

Directed by Lav Diaz | Portugal
2025, 2h 44min, DCP, In multiple languages with English subtitles.

“Stunningly mounted, politically rigorous … confronts any viewers hoping for a sweeping biographical romp with a frank post-colonial perspective.”
—Variety

Mar. 19, 21 | Lav Diaz’s panoramic telling of the conquests of Portuguese circumnavigator and conqueror Ferdinand Magellan stars Gael García Bernal as the title figure in an acclaimed, multifaceted performance. Taking visual inspiration from Renaissance paintings, it is also a visual spectacle.

A NEW LOVE IN TOKYO

Directed by Banmei Takahashi | Japan
1994, 1h 53min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

“… Refreshingly free of moral panic and stigma around sex work, or sexuality in general.”
— Screen Slate

“While honesty dictates that this movie be classified first and foremost as erotica, it is erotica that finds room for real sweetness and intellectual pretensions along with its kink.”
—The New York Times

Mar. 20, 21 | Set in ’90s Tokyo, this kinky follow-up to TOKYO DECADENCE follows Rei, a theater-loving S&M worker, and Ayumi, a call girl cohabiting with her boyfriend. Candid and cheeky, it reflects the ever-evolving perspectives on sex, love, and freedom of a new generation of women. Featuring photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, who also contributed to the screenplay. New restoration.

Hausu

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi | Japan
1977, 1h 31min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

“MUST-SEE-NOW – delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to HAUSU.”
—The New York Times

“Shot with so much visual panache and mid-70s excess that it comes off like RINGU on a Pixy Stix-fueled hug-a-thon … a brain-rattling delight.”
—The Austin Chronicle

Apr. 3, 4, 5, 8 | From Nobuhiko Obayashi (HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND), spotlighted in last year’s Kadokawa Superstar program, comes an avant-garde teen-appeal ghost story that employs nearly every film technique possible in a phantasmagoria of ghostly psychedelia. Guaranteed to thrill and delight even the most jaded filmgoer. 

PINK CUT: LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP

Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita | Japan
1983, 1h 8min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

Feb. 6, 7 | Hairstylists Mayumi and Mai give new meaning to “rinse, lather, repeat” when they open the Pink Cut, a barbershop offering everything but a clean cut. Fluffier than a blowout, this pastel‑colored balayage of musical numbers, charm, and humor comes from Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno and Yoshimitsu Morita (HARU, THE FAMILY GAME).

CARNIVAL IN THE NIGHT

Directed by Masashi Yamamoto | Japan
1981, 1h 49min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles.

“These are Yamamoto’s politics: to squat, to squander, and to soil reality. Whether anyone takes notice is beyond him; his unceasing state of resistance exists beyond society and blooms by virtue of its separation from its norms.”
—Screen Slate

Apr. 17, 18 | Motherhood has never been so punk. Masashi Yamamoto’s gritty 16mm jishu‑eiga sees single mother Kumi (Kumiko Ohta) hand her kid over to her ex and descend into a dark underground of squatters, hustlers, and explosives hobbyists for one last hurrah. A cry from the gutter from the director of ROBINSON’S GARDEN and WHAT’S UP CONNECTION in a new 2K restoration.