Film Screening: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

Join us for a screening of the 1939 film The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum by Kenji Mizoguchi. This story follows an onnagata—a male actor specializing in playing female roles—struggling for artistic mastery, offering a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of kabuki theater in late nineteenth century Japan.

The screening will be prefaced by remarks from Monique D'Almeida, curator of our exhibition Scandal & Virtue: Staging Kabuki in Osaka Prints, and Rob Buscher, Associate Director of Organizational Culture at the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia.

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Organized in partnership with Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia and in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.