Past Events

For our Film Club in August, we invite you to explore Shinya Tsukamoto’s brutal and devastating war film, Fires on the Plain (2015), a haunting portrayal of Japanese soldiers wandering through the Philippines during the final days of WW2.

The Japanese Conversation Group provides a friendly and informal atmosphere for Japanese speakers of all nationalities to come together and speak Japanese. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month.

Through stark, fragmented narratives, Set My Heart on Fire portrays women navigating unstable relationships and emotional isolation in postwar Japan.

The Japanese Conversation Group provides a friendly and informal atmosphere for Japanese speakers of all nationalities to come together and speak Japanese. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month.

Join us for our July Film Club to dive into the imaginative animated movie, Summer Wars, directed by Mamoru Hosoda in 2009, which explores friendship, family and the digital world, set against the backdrop of a virtual crisis that blurs the line between reality and cyberspace.

Join us for a lecture on the role that visual art played in relation to countercultural movements in Japan from the turbulent 1960s to the present day.

In Sisters in Yellow, Hana, now in her forties, reflects on her youth in Tokyo’s “Yellow House” during the 1990s.

For our Film Club in June, we invite you to explore Seijun Suzuki’s stylish and subversive yakuza film, Tokyo Drifter (1966), a vibrant tale of loyalty, identity, and life on the run during post-war Japan.

The Japanese Conversation Group provides a friendly and informal atmosphere for Japanese speakers of all nationalities to come together and speak Japanese. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month.

In this lecture, Laura Abbott will compare the lived realities of pregnancy, birth and maternal-newborn separation in UK and Japanese prisons.