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Brooklyn Academy of Music is holding the Ghosts and Monsters: Postwar Japanese Horror film festival, that features a number of Japanese horror and monster films. It is part of the larger BAMcinématek which presents classic films, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives, with appearances by filmmakers, actors, and critics. There will be a number of showings of each film (listed below). It takes place Oct 26 to Nov 1 at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Rose Cinemas 30 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11217
In the wake of World War II and profound social upheaval, Japanese filmmakers channeled national trauma into a rich and distinctive horror cinema. As Toho Studios created new mythologies in the form of iconic kaiju—pop culture-conquering monsters like Godzilla and Mothra—visionary stylists like Kenji Mizoguchi, Kaneto Shindô, and Masaki Kobayashi drew from the past, spinning atmospheric ghost stories from classic Japanese folklore. Fantastical, otherworldly, and wildly unique, these tales of rampaging beasts and supernatural terror are triumphs of cinematic imagination. 
GODZILLA
Fri, Oct 26, 2018 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 96min FORMAT: DCP GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Ishirô Honda | 1954 With Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata When a series of underwater nuclear tests awaken a long-dormant, radioactive reptile, it’s only a matter of time before the towering, indestructible Gojira stomps his way to Tokyo—and into pop culture immortality. Atomic age anxiety spawned the most iconic (and most subsequently franchised) movie monster of the 20th century, turning national trauma into pulp mythos. 
UGETSU
Sat, Oct 27, 2018 7pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 96min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 With Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka Master director Kenji Mizoguchi interweaves social realism and the supernatural in this ravishing adaptation of a pair of 16th-century ghost stories. In the midst of civil war, a prideful potter’s desire for wealth draws him away from his faithful wife—and into the arms of a phantom princess. The exquisite elegance of the director’s signature long takes pushes this shivery tale of patriarchal folly into the realm of the sublime. 
MOTHRA
Oct 27—Nov 1, 2018 Sat, Oct 27, 2018 4:30pm Thurs, Nov 1, 2018 7:00pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 101min FORMAT: DCP GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Ishirô Honda | 1961 With Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyōko Kagawa The Toho-verse of mythic beasts continued to expand with the addition of its first female monster: Mothra, a winged avenger who unleashes pandemonium when the fairy-inhabited jungle island she protects is disturbed by explorers. Introducing a rich strain of fantasy and mysticism to his patented kaiju-gone-wild formula, Ishirô Honda crafts a pop art marvel of supreme wonder and strangeness. 
Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell
Sat, Oct 27, 2018 9:30pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 84min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Hajime Satô | 1968 With Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Eizô Kitamura After their plane crash lands on a remote island, a motley band of strangers find themselves menaced by an oozing, blob-like alien with a thirst for blood—and a hatred of the human race. Writ in blazing, supersaturated Fujicolor, this alternately hypnotic and thoroughly bonkers sci-fi freakout delivers an apocalyptic blend of outré grotesquerie and potent Vietnam-era social commentary. Screening from a rare archival print of an English dubbed version of the film. 
Kwaidan
Sun, Oct 28, 2018 2pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 183min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Masaki Kobayashi | 1964 With Rentarō Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi Among the most visually splendorous horror movies ever made, Masaki Kobayashi’s ghostly fantasia brings together four quietly chilling tales of otherworldly encounters adapted from Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore. The phantasmagoric art direction—a riot of painted backdrops and expressionistic lighting—and haunting Tōru Takemitsu score create an uncanny, all-enveloping sensory experience. 
Jigoku
Sun, Oct 28, 2018 5:30pm LOCATION:Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 101min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa | 1960 With Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata Nobuo Nakagawa—Japan’s Roger Corman and Mario Bava rolled into one—drags us through the pits of hell in this head-spinningly hallucinatory cult classic. After he flees the scene of a hit-and-run that leaves a yakuza dead, a young man earns a one way ticket to the underworld, envisioned by Nakagawa as an abstract, Boschian nightmare of ceaseless carnage and cruelty. Print courtesy of Japan Foundation 
Pitfall
Tue, Oct 30, 2018 7pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 97min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1962 With Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Hideo Kanze The feature debut of Hiroshi Teshigahara was the first of his visionary collaborations—including Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another—with writer Kōbō Abe and composer Tōru Takemitsu. Blending documentary realism with a jagged modernism, it’s an unsettlingly surreal tale of murder, conspiracy, and corporate exploitation in a desolate mining town—part anti-capitalist screed, part eerily atmospheric ghost story. 
Kuroneko
Wed, Oct 31, 2018 7pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 99min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Kaneto Shindô | 1968 With Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô Hell hath no fury like the seriously wronged undead ladies in this mesmeric tale of witchy revenge. After being brutally murdered by a band of samurai, a mother and daughter-in-law return as feline spirits who set about getting even by ripping open the throats of the men they ensnare. Shot in glittering, gorgeous widescreen black and white, Kaneto Shindô’s spectral shocker drips with dreamlike dread. 
Onibaba
Wed, Oct 31, 2018 9:30pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 102min FORMAT: 35mm GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Kaneto Shindô | 1964 With Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato In the marshlands of 14th-century Japan, a mother and daughter-in-law survive by robbing and murdering lost samurai—until primal passions, twisted mind games, and a demonic mask pit them against one another. Awash in psychosexual menace and indelible chiaroscuro images, Kaneto Shindô’s nightmare vision of feudal Japan lays bare the dehumanizing horrors wrought by poverty and war. 
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (this may be tentative as it it not listed with the other films on the main page on their site)
Thu, Nov 1, 2018 7pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 90min FORMAT: Digital GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above) Directed by Ishirô Honda | 1968 With Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi. Under the control of a squadron of shimmery femme-aliens intent on conquering Earth, an all-star cast of kaiju—including Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah—romp and stomp their way across the globe, from New York to Moscow to Beijing. The 20th installment in Toho’s giant monster cycle culminates in the awesome spectacle of an epic, all-beasts-on-board battle atop Mt. Fuji.
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