Japanuary is back! We're serving up New Year helping of Japanese cinematic treats, from a golden age classic to a 90s Palme d'Or winner, via a brilliant kaiju movie and a stunning samurai film. Get tickets to all the films here. 

Kinuyo Tanaka (Forever a Woman, Equinox Flower), one of Japan’s greatest actresses, stars in The Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff), one of Japan’s greatest directors.

Amongst the most highly regarded films of Mizoguchi’s late career run of masterpieces, The Life of Oharu is adapted from Ihara Saikaku’s Edo period work The Life of an Amorous Woman. Tracing Oharu’s fall from noblewoman to prostitute, beginning after a forbidden love affair with a page, Kinuyo Tanaka gives an iconic performance before Mizoguchi’s morally exacting gaze, which uncompromisingly registered the plight of women in feudal and modern Japan.

"One of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Kenji Mizoguchi was the equal of a Murnau or a Rossellini... If poetry appears at every second, in every shot that Mizoguchi makes, it is because, as with Murnau, it is the instinctive reflection of the inventive nobility of its author."

--Jean-Luc Godard

Doors open 30 minutes before advertised start time. All film screenings are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with no more than a 10 min selection of trailers. 

The Cube is a membership venue, please remember to bring your card. You can join on the door for £1.