The Boston Festival of Films from Japan
The Boston Festival of Films from Japan runs February 1, 2018 – February 28, 2018 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring the live-action manga adaptation Blade of the Immortal , the 100th feature film from provocative and prolific director Takashi Miike, & the timely documentary Resistance at Tule Lake (2017), which chronicles a 1943 uprising at a Japanese concentration camp in California. The festival kicks off on February 1 with a free screening of the anime Your Name (2016), a film with gorgeous imagery and deep emotional resonance that quickly became one of the most popular films of all time in Japan.