Sushi Lecture 2017! March 21, 2017 Film Screening of “The Depths” and discussion with the Director

Sushi Lecture 2017! Film Screening of “The Depths” and discussion with the Director on Tuesday March 21 at 5 pm in CAS B12

The Depths Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With Kim Min-Jun, Hoshi Ishida, Soji Arai Japan/South Korea 2010, DCP , color, 121 min. Japanese, Korean and English with English subtitles.

A famous Korean fashion photographer on assignment in Japan discovers a new kind of friendship with a mysterious male escort in Hamaguchi’s delicate character study. Anticipating his masterful epic of love and friendship Happy Hour, The Depths reveals Hamaguchi’s fascination with the unspoken and often indescribable bonds that create real intimacy. A Korean-Japanese coproduction, The Depths gives a new dimension to Hamaguchi’s oeuvre with its study of homosexual desire and the therapeutic potential of art making.

Co-sponsored by the BU Dept. of World Languages & Literatures, the National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship, the Korea Foundation, the BU Center for the Study of Asia, and the BU Japanese Program.