Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on December 2010

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Get your cult-cinema fix at a celebration of Cinema Novo, the movement which revolutionized Brazilian film in the ’60s and ’70s. Taking place December 4-17 at Shibuya’s Image Forum (2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku; www.imageforum.co.jp), the program includes the digitally remastered Macunaíma (1969; pictured), a modern-day parable of a full-grown man born to an old woman deep in the jungles of the Amazon, and Conjugal Warfare (1975), about a married couple who hate each other but can’t afford to split up.

Veteran Japanese director Yoichi Higashi (see “Eiga”) will be honored with a retrospective at Pole Pole (4-4-1 Higashi-Nakano, Nakano-ku; www.mmjp.or.jp/pole2), December 4-29. The 76-year-old filmmaker is known for works set in rural locations, including The River with No Bridge (1992), about the burakumin minority group.

Shin-Bungeiza in Ikebukuro (3F, 1-43-5 Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku; www.shin-bungeiza.com) will celebrate two offbeat men of cinema, Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray, with an all-night screening on December 4. The program includes Lost in Translation (2003) and the two films the men made together: Broken Flowers (2005) and Coffee & Cigarettes (2003).