A Walk on the Wild Side of Japanese Cinema:

Meet Patrick Macias, author of TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion & See the Bay Area premiere of Kinji Fukasaku's infamous ultraviolent thriller Battle Royale!

NEW PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE THEATER
2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
Berkeley, California
(510) 642-1412
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26

6:30 P.M.:
TOKYOSCOPE READING/SIGNING

• Patrick Macias reads from his new book, TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion and introduces Kinji Fukasaku's controversial Battle Royale.

7:00 P.M.:
BATTLE ROYALE

• At last! Beverly Hills 90210 meets Survivor meets Sam Peckinpah in Kinji Fukasaku's ultraviolent, antiauthoritarian epic about schoolkids on a deserted island stabbing, shooting, and strangling one another for TV prizes! The teacher: Beat Takeshi.
• More on Battle Royale

9:30 P.M.:
BLOOD AND LAW

• A rare gem from the PFA archives! Real-life yakuza Noboru Ando plays himself in this classic mid-sixties gangster flick co-starring Bunta Sugawara and Tetsuro Tanba!!!

TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion
By Patrick Macias
Foreword by Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale)
Afterword by Takashi Miike (Audition and Dead or Alive)
Published by Cadence Books, 240 pages, $19.95
IN BOOKSTORES NOW

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