(Admission free for Harvard students; for complimentary tickets, please use RIJS2023)

The Harvard Film Archive is proud to officially announce an important new partnership, a collaboration with legendary Japanese motion picture studio Shochiku, to create a legacy collection of new 35mm prints of classic films from Shochiku’s impressive catalogue. As part of the HFA Collection, these prints will be vital resources for research, teaching and study at Harvard for years to come. Shochiku prints will also, of course, be regularly featured in the HFA’s cinematheque program. The Shochiku Centennial Collection is a multi-year project, the goal of which is to strike fifty new prints of studio titles dating from the silent era through the 1970s, selected by HFA Director Haden Guest and Alexander Zahlten, Harvard Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Many prints will be made in tandem with the studio’s ambitious restoration program, which has already created glorious new films and DCPs of classic Shochiku titles.

Details can be found here: https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-shochiku-centennial-collection