The National Cinema Museum presents the first part of the retrospective entitled Samurai, eros e pallottole (Samurai, Eros and bullets): the first hundred years of Nikkatsu curated by Dario Tomasi.

The National Cinema Museum celebrates the first centenary of the founding of Nikkatsu – one of the oldest and most prestigious Japanese film production houses – with a far-reaching retrospective entitled Samurai, eros e pallottole (Samurai, Eros and bullets): the first hundred years of Nikkatsu, curated by Dario Tomasi. The second part of the festival will take place from 17 to 24 March 2012.

The tribute is a Nikkatsu project produced by the National Cinema Museum with support from the Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome and assistance from the Cinémathèque française.

The first part of the festival will open on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 8.30 p.m. in Cinema Massimo’s Screen Three, with a screening of Pigs and Battleships, Shöhei Imamura’s most anti-American film, a bitter condemnation of the Westernisation of Japan. The film will be introduced by Dario Tomasi. Admission: 6.00/4.00/3.00 euros.