Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2013

Aficionados of the gunslinger genre will want to mosey on down to Shibuya’s Cinema Vera (1-5 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku; www.cinemavera.com) to catch a program of rarely-seen Western films, March 30-April 26. Highlights include the only film directed by Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks (1961; pictured), Sam Peckinpah’s The Deadly Companions (1961), and early silents starring the first Hollywood cowboy, Tom Mix.

Vive les femmes du cinéma! A trio of films representing the French Female New Wave is running March 30-May 10 at Shibuya’s Image Forum (2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku; www.imageforum.co.jp). The lineup includes the family drama Le Skylab, directed by and starring Julie Delpy. http://mermaidfilms.co.jp/ffnw.

It will be an international night of the living dead when Shin-Bungeiza in Ikebukuro (3F, 1-43-5 Higashi-Ikebukuro Toshima-ku; www.shin-bungeiza.com) hosts an all-night marathon of zombie flicks kicking off at 10:30pm on March 30. Cockneys and Zombies starts off the program of films featuring the undead shuffling through London, Cuba, Africa, and Taiwan.