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The final work in the career of the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Shimizu, “Image of a Mother” is a rare scope feature. It is a tender story that follows a little boy named Michio, struggling with his widowed father’s new arranged marriage while mourning the loss of his mother. Shimizu presents death and grief seen through the eyes of an innocent child trying to adapt to a new stepmother and stepsister.

Michio refuses to let go of the memory of his late mother, even though everyone around him urges him to forget her, to hide her picture in a drawer, and to quickly move on and embrace his father’s new wife, Sonoko, as his new mother. Michio’s friends and family cannot understand why he is unable to move on, as all of them have done long ago. However, things simply aren’t that easy for a boy of such a young age.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise has a special treat in store for fans next year, with a remaster of a popular series recently announced for April 2025. The upcoming release celebrates the series' 25th anniversary, with the show in question having premiered in late 2004.

The fan-favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx, which originally aired from October 2004 to March 2008, is getting a remastered version that's set to air on TV Tokyo this coming April, although an international release has yet to be confirmed. Kenn, the voice actor for series protagonist Jaden Yuki, made the following comment about the new reveal: "Thanks to everyone supporting me, I've been able to consistently face and play Jaden Yuki for almost half my life. As I gain more experience, the more I realize how incredible all the staff and cast were at the time! Congratulations again on the remastered version! Gotcha! That was a fun duel!" He also shared a comment for the viewers,...

More so than any other line of monsters, the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise is most associated with several mighty dragons. Now, the most digitized incarnation of these beasts is available as an impressive collectible.

Released by Japanese toy developer Kaiyodo, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Gx Cyber Dragon Figure is a truly incredible behemoth. Recreating the Duel Monster in Pvc and Abs, the cybernetic reptile is detailed to the hilt and perfect for any collector's shelf. It also comes as the anime and manga it's based on is officially turning 20 years old.

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A new collaboration for the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise sees two iconic duelists and their trading card monsters reinterpreted through buildable block toys.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx's Cyber Dragon Downloads Into an Epic New Figurine

At nearly 12 inches, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx Cyber Dragon figure by Kaiyodo brings the card monster to life in a truly visceral way.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film Forum

Films by Oshima, Tony Scott, Alex Cox, John Carpenter, Abel Ferrara, and Tobe Hooper play in “Out of the 80s“; Le Samouraï continues in a new 4K restoration; Back to the Future plays on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A massive overview of Bulle Ogier has its final weekend with two films by Rivette.

Museum of the Moving Image

The Thin Red Line, The Big Lebowski, and Defending Your Life all play on 35mm as part of “See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex.”

Bam

The rarely screened films of György Pálfi are given a retrospective.

Metrograph

Films by Haneke, Kiarostami, and more play in an mk2 retrospective; Saturday brings Three Days of the Condor on 35mm; ’90s Noir, Euro-Heists, Dream with Your Eyes Open, and Ethics of Care, continue, while a Chris Marker series includes Sans Soleil and a shorts program.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.NEWSNorma Rae.The Academy Foundation Workers Union has approved its first contract, including structured raises, extended leave time, increased job security, and other benefits.Just weeks after the conclusion of the festival, Hot Docs has announced it will lay off staff and temporarily shutter its year-round cinema in Toronto.The Hollywood Commission, chaired by Anita Hill, has introduced an online tool to report workplace abuse in the American motion-picture industry.The organizing wave in New York cinemas continues as the Cinema Village union becomes official. In PRODUCTIONIn his signature direct-oblique style, David Lynch is teasing “something…for you to see and hear,” which “will be coming along” on June 5.REMEMBERINGSuper Size Me.Morgan Spurlock has died at 53. The filmmaker followed his debut feature,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film Forum

Films by Scorsese, De Palma, Woody Allen, Coppola, Jarmusch, and the Coen Brothers play in “Out of the 80s,“ which includes Cutter’s Way on 35mm; Le Samouraï continues in a new 4K restoration; Raiders of the Lost Ark plays on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A massive overview of Bulle Ogier continues with films by Rivette, Duras, and Oliveira.

Museum of the Moving Image

The Thin Red Line, Mars Attacks, and Princess Mononoke all play on 35mm as part of “See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex“; The Right Stuff shows on 35mm this Saturday.

Roxy Cinema

Roger Corman’s A Bucket of Blood and Dunston Checks In both play on 35mm this Saturday; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Runner screen on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

Med Hondo’s West Indies has encore showings.

Japanese Girls at the Harbor.In 1924, Hiroshi Shimizu, the 21-year-old son of a wealthy businessman, dropped his studies at an agricultural school in Hokkaido and moved to Tokyo to pursue his interest in filmmaking. The Japanese industry was in a state of flux, moving away from the jidaigeki, or period dramas, and towards gendaigeki, films about contemporary life: slapstick, romantic, and sport-themed comedies; crime films; and its trademark, shōshimin-eiga, social dramas concerned with working and middle class life.One of the major forces of this change was Shochiku, the studio where Shimizu landed a job, first as an assistant director, and then in 1925 as a full-fledged director. Under the leadership of Shiro Kido, an ambitious young executive, Shochiku was establishing itself as a distinctly modern film studio within a major metropolis. Tokyo was in the midst of a growth spurt, with urban sprawl accelerating and multitudes of people migrating from the countryside.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

Stanley Donen’s Funny Face plays on Friday and Sunday, the latter day bringing a program of work by Nicola Tyson and Son of Kong on 35mm.

Paris Theater

Prints of Prizzi’s Honor, The Mechanic, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Killer Joe play in a hitman retrospective; Yi Yi shows on 35mm this Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A massive overview of Bulle Ogier continues with films by Fassbinder, Rivette, and more.

IFC Center

Man Ray: Return to Reason begins; After Hours and the Bob Fosse retrospective begin; Labyrinth, Flashdance, and Tank Girl play late.

Japan Society

America’s largest-ever Hiroshi Shimizu retrospective migrates to Japan Society (watch our exclusive trailer debut).

Museum of the Moving Image

Two more Shimizu films play; House on Haunted Hill screens Friday and Sunday, while The Right Stuff shows on 35mm this Saturday.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Museum of Modern Art

A massive overview of Bulle Ogier continues, this weekend bringing Out 1.

Roxy Cinema

Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table plays on Saturday, as does Time to Die and the latest “City Dudes“; a print of Night Tide shows Friday; The Last of the Mohicans and The Outsiders play on 35mm this Sunday.

Paris Theater

13 Assassins, Collateral, and Bullitt all play on 35mm in a hitman retrospective.

Museum of the Moving Image

America’s largest-ever Hiroshi Shimizu retrospective continues (watch our exclusive trailer debut).

Bam

Horace Ove’s Pressure plays in a new restoration.

Metrograph

A Kelly Reichardt retrospective has begun (watch our exclusive trailer debut) while ’90s Noir, Euro-Heists, Dream with Your Eyes Open, Ethics of Care, and Animal Farm continue.

Film at Lincoln Center

Peter Kass’ restored Time of the Heathen opens.

Film Forum...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

Our House of Tolerance 35mm presentation returns Friday; prints of Night Tide and Eddie Murphy: Raw show Saturday; The Last of the Mohicans and Thief play on 35mm this Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A massive overview of Bulle Ogier has begun, this weekend bringing Fassbinder, Rivette, Buñuel, Duras, and more.

Museum of the Moving Image

America’s largest-ever Hiroshi Shimizu retrospective begins (watch our exclusive trailer debut); The Abyss screens on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

A new Marguerite Duras retrospective begins, while “Cinema of Palestinian Return” continues.

Bam

“Uncharted Territories” highlights Black British cinema from 1963 to 1986.

Film at Lincoln Center

“Seeing the City” presents an avant-garde vision of New York.

Metrograph

“’90s Noir” brings Bound and Deep Cover, while Euro-Heists, a Jane Schoenbrun curation, Dream with Your Eyes Open, Ethics of Care, and Animal Farm all start; meanwhile,...

However hard it is to expand the canon, legwork must always be done. In my own time I’ve seen the understanding of mid-century Japanese cinema expand, however marginally, from Kurosawa alone to Ozu and Mizoguchi; it may be now that we place room for their contemporary Hiroshi Shimizu, whose films are subject of a two-part, cross-borough retrospective beginning next week. On May 4, Queens’ Museum of the Moving Image launches Part I: The Shochiku Years; May 16 will bring Part II: The Postwar and Independent Years to Manhattan’s Japan Society. In total the series spans 27 films, all shown on 35mm prints “imported from collections and archives in Japan.” We are accordingly thrilled to debut its trailer.

Here’s the series’ synopsis: “An unsung master of Japanese cinema, Hiroshi Shimizu (1903–1966) was highly regarded by contemporaries Yasujirō Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi for his seemingly effortless formal ingenuity, distinguished by his signature linear traveling shots and his naturalistic,...

Hiroshi Shimizu’s filmography, one deserving of more recognition, is now getting the big screen treatment on an international scale.

The late pioneering Japanese director is the subject of two honorary retrospectives, programmed in partnership between the Museum of the Moving Image and Japan Society and co-organized with the National Film Archive of Japan and the Japan Foundation, New York. Part I, titled “The Shochiku Years,” begins May 4 at the Museum of the Moving Image and runs through May 19.

The series includes Shimizu’s works that range from early melodramas in both silent and sound films to his illustrious tours of provincial life, which would later become a signature of the filmmaker’s style. Programming highlights include “Japanese Girls at the Harbor” (1933), “Mr. Thank You” (1936), “The Masseurs and a Woman” (1938), and “Ornamental Hairpin” (1941). Screening of select films are very rare, and have not screened in the city in decades, including “A Star Athlete,...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSThis week, we’re remembering the iconoclastic, anti-capitalist filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub, who has died at the age of 89. In the course of revisiting Christopher Small’s Straub-Huillet Companion column, we were moved by this quotation from Straub, from a 1974 edition of Jump Cut:The revolution is like God’s grace, it has to be made anew each day, it becomes new every day, a revolution is not made once and for all. And it’s exactly like that in daily life. There is no division between politics and life, art and politics. I think one has no other choice, if one is making films that can stand on their own feet, they must become documentary, or in any case they must have documentary roots. Everything must be correct,...

Revisiting last year's introduction when putting together 2021's favorites, it is with a shock to realize how little has changed in the wildly disrupted world of cinema under the shroud of the pandemic. The urge to copy-and-paste the whole shebang is quite tempting indeed.What can we say about this year, 2021? We got a little more used to long-term instability. Cinemas and festivals re-opened, only for some to close again. We, like many, ventured carefully out into the world to finally see films again with audiences, all kinds: nervous ones, uproarious ones, spartan ones, and delighted ones. It was an experience both anxious and joyous. We also doubled down on the challenges, but also the pleasures, of home viewing: of virtual cinemas and virtual festivals, of straight to streaming premieres, of trying to capture a social joy in semi-isolation by connecting with others over experiences shared and disparate.The long...

Pioneering filmmaker and actress was second woman to direct a feature in history of Japanese cinema.

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate the work of Japanese director and actress Kinuyo Tanaka at its upcoming 73rd edition (August 5-15), in its first ever retrospective dedicated to a female artist.

Tanaka (1909 –1977) was a pioneering figure in Japanese cinema throughout her 50-year career, appearing in the films of legendary directors Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi before striking off to direct her own films.

“This is the first time that the festival will be dedicating its retrospective to a female director, after 73 years,” said...

Edinburgh exhibitor Filmhouse is to tour a season of films about childhood across the UK, curated by documentary filmmaker Mark Cousins.

The season will comprise 17 films about childhood (see below for full list).

Most of the titles in the season are featured in Cousins’ documentary A Story of Children and Film, which premiered at Cannes last year.

The April-June tour will take in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Brighton, Bristol and Sheffield among other cities.

The season is managed by Filmhouse, which has also licensed VoD rights to a number of the titles.

The project is backed by the BFI’s Programming Development Fund. Adam Dawtrey and Mary Bell, who also produced A Story of Children and Film, are producers.

The full list of titles screening in the Cinema of Childhood season are:

• “Willow and Wind” (Bid-o Baad). Iran, Japan, 1999. D. Mohammad-Ali Talebi. 77 mins. A boy breaks a school window, and must mend...

Criterion does it again, rescuing a major filmmaker from the quicksand of neglect, happenstance and/or canonical prejudice, and shoving them into the spotlight with state-of-the-art DVD releases that virtually demand a reevaluative reckoning. As with Larisa Shepitko, Jacques Becker, Raymond Bernard, William Klein and Jean Painlevé, you won't find mention of Hiroshi Shimizu in any major English-language film history text, and in each case the elisions are criminal. An almost exact contemporary of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Naruse, from the beginnings of their careers in the mid-to-late '20s to their last films, Shimizu echoes a good deal of their field of concerns -- the plight of women in a patriarchy, the delicacy of the unsaid, the tragic spiral of romantic melodrama -- but comes at them with a subtly distinctive way of observing his characters, similar to Ozu's rigorous restraint but freer, more organic, less "perfect" and more spontaneous.