Where:
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Film, Food, Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
https://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php
On behalf of the Harvard Film Archive and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, we cordially invite you to two exclusive public viewing of a 110-minute documentary about Tsukiji, Tokyo’s world-famous fish market.
Tokyo’s Tsukiji market, the largest wholesale fish market on the planet, is on the verge of being relocated. What has made a tired, gritty 80-year-old complex in the heart of Tokyo not simply a commercial hub but a cultural arbiter of contemporary Japanese cuisine? The documentary provides a rich and sustaining portrait of Tsukiji. Spend a day with the buyers, sellers, chefs, local residents, and visitors who help make a fish market central to a city’s sense of identity at a moment when the market’s very future is in flux.
Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Reischauer Institute will introduce the film at each viewing event and moderate a Q&A and short discussion about the documentary with film’s director, Naotarō Endō, and Maiko Teshima and Kazuha Okuda, the co-producers.
This film is part of the Reischauer Institute Japan Forum’s 2016 Film Series. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to the start of the screening.
For directions to the Harvard Film Archive visit: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/general_info.html#directions