Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011

Get ready for a wild ride as Shin-Bungeiza in Ikebukuro (3F, 1-43-5 Higashi-Ikebukuro Toshima-ku; www.shin-bungeiza.com) pays tribute to late tough-guy actor Yoshio Harada with a retrospective running September 17-28. Harada, who succumbed to cancer this July, had a career spanning six decades and specialized in playing feckless rebel characters in films such as A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1973) and Rebel Melody (1970; pictured)… Now in its eighth year, the Latin Beat Film Festival (www.hispanicbeatfilmfestival.com) brings back a slew of Spanish-language films this fall, which can be caught at Shinjuku Wald 9 (3-1-26 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku; www.wald9.com), September 15-19, and Yokohama Burg 13 (1-1-7 Sakuragicho; http://burg13.com), October 7-10. Highlights this year include the animated musical Chico & Rita, (2010) and Even the Rain (2010), which is about a modern-day film crew shooting a movie about Columbus in Bolivia… Martial arts fans will want to head to Shinjuku Musashinokan (3-27-10 Shinjuku; http://shinjuku.musashino-k.jp) to check out Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010) a reboot of the Fist of Legend series started by Jet Li, directed by Andrew Lau and featuring Donnie Yen as the title character, which was first played by Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury (1972).

Unless otherwise noted, Japanese films are shown without English subtitles and non-English language films are shown with only Japanese subtitles.