assistant professor of film and media @yale

Joined July 2013
I wrote about the incredible JANET PLANET for @thebafflermag—the stakes of a girl’s gaze, and how she grows up:
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TOMORROW: we’re screening Yuzo Kawashima’s SUZAKI PARADISE: RED LIGHT to launch this beautiful new @anothergaze translation of Yoshiko Shibaki’s “Susaki Paradise”—w/imported copies from the UK available for purchase on site! Plus catch an introduction by @moekofujii!
Just announced! @anothergaze presents Yuzo Kawashima's SUZAKI PARADISE: RED LIGHT. A destitute couple arrives at a fallen red-light district in this striking adaptation of Yoshiko Shibaki's "Susaki Paradise"—newly translated into Eng! Screens 4/17: japansoc.org/suzaki
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Copies of @anothergaze’s “Susaki Paradise” are in! Translated by Polly Barton with a foreword by Moeko Fujii, this edition marks the first English translation of Shibaki’s crucial work! Intro’d by @moekofujii on 4/17 w/copies of the book will be available for purchase!
Based on the same material as Mizoguchi's STREET OF SHAME, SUZAKI PARADISE: RED LIGHT is a vital postwar work as love, desire & dreams collide along Suzaki’s shimmering waterways. Launching @anothergazejournal’s new translation of Yoshiko Shibaki on 4/17: japansoc.org/suzaki
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Our screening coincides with Another Gaze’s translation of Yoshiko Shibaki’s “Susaki Paradise” by Polly Barton with a foreword by Moeko Fujii—the first English translation of Shibaki’s work! The film will be intro’d by @moekofujii and copies of the book will be available to buy!
Just announced! @anothergaze presents Yuzo Kawashima's SUZAKI PARADISE: RED LIGHT. A destitute couple arrives at a fallen red-light district in this striking adaptation of Yoshiko Shibaki's "Susaki Paradise"—newly translated into Eng! Screens 4/17: japansoc.org/suzaki
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🇫🇷 ❤️ 🗽 Luc Moullet in NYC! Behold the screening schedule for our retrospective Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps (taking place August 8-14), with the French New Wave filmmaker joining us in person at select screenings. View individual film descriptions & secure 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/moullet
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[BREAKING] Since May, Columbia admin has been secretly working to eliminate graduate teaching jobs while negotiating with SWC for a new contract. Out of ~200 instructor jobs in a regular year, we know of only ~10 that have been appointed.
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWENTY-DISC 4K SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES ✨ •Commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, discussions, analysis, and visual essays •Essays by @tnyfrontrow, James L. Brooks, @BilgeEbiri, @moekofujii, Kent Jones, @dave_kehr, Geoffrey O’Brien, Martin Scorsese, and Erica Wagner + much more!
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Our Mikio Naruse poster is up!
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talked all things hasumi (what is the hasumi-esque?) with the truly brilliant @cvalladares0896, up now on @Gagosian
For @Gagosian Quarterly, I had the great pleasure/honor/joy of dialoguing with @moekofujii on the new English translation of Shiguéhiko Hasumi’s landmark book on Yasujiro Ozu, released by @ucpress. Here’s our unexpurgated conversation: gagosian.com/quarterly/2024/…
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For @Gagosian Quarterly, I had the great pleasure/honor/joy of dialoguing with @moekofujii on the new English translation of Shiguéhiko Hasumi’s landmark book on Yasujiro Ozu, released by @ucpress. Here’s our unexpurgated conversation: gagosian.com/quarterly/2024/…
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Kinuyo Tanaka on the set of THE ETERNAL BREASTS (1955).
Kinuyo Tanaka's exquisite THE ETERNAL BREASTS (1955) screens next Wed. at @AsiaSocietyNY! Written by Naruse scribe Sumie Tanaka and inspired by the life of tanka poet Fumiko Nakajo, this underseen gem screens in a rare 35mm import, don't miss out: asiasociety.org/new-york/eve…
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WHO DID THE LIGHTING for the THR round table this year BECAUSE I WANT TO KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH
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Announcing "Obayashi '80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years"—running Feb 7-14! Illustrating earnest portraits of youth & expressive fantasias, Nobuhiko Obayashi's teen symphonies attune themselves to the extraordinary nature of ordinary adolescence: japansoc.org/Obayashi80s
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moeko fujii retweeted
now is a perfect time to start reminiscing about lily gladstone’s beautiful performance in certain women
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a great piece on background cinematic people
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Braided essay king, I said what I said
Trump: You know, I do the weave. You know the weave? I weave stories together. Friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen (???)
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Gena Rowlands, thank you, performers mean everything to me, I can’t live without the melodramatic splendor of your noble kind
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moeko fujii retweeted
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