Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2012

Legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman is the subject of an all-night schlockfest on September 8 at Shin-Bungeiza in Ikebukuro (3F, 1-43-5 Higashi-Ikebukuro Toshima-ku; www.shin-bungeiza.com). The selections from his 500-plus producing credits included Death Race 2000 (1975; pictured), Rock ’n’ Roll High School (1979) and the doc Corman’s World. The man himself will be in Japan in October to head the Tokyo International Film Festival jury.

The French hit film The Intouchables will screen from September 1 at Shinjuku Musashinokan (3-27-10 Shinjuku; http://shinjuku.musashino-k.jp). The drama tells the story of rich quadriplegic who develops an unlikely friendship with the underprivileged man he hires to care for him. The drama became one of the most successful French films ever made.

Dance fans will want to head to Bunkamura’s Le Cinema (2-24-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku; www.bunkamura.co.jp) to check out Une vie de ballets from September 8. Director Marlene Ionesco uses the true life, decades-spanning love story of dancers Pierre Lacotte and Ghislaine Thesmar to tell the story of ballet in the second half of the 20th century.