07/26, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo

Sakurajima volcano blows on the island of Kyushu as independent cinema Iwanami Hall in Tokyo is days away from its final screening. Meanwhile, the National Film Archive of Japan celebrates 90 years of Toho Studios with “Yowa mushi chin-sen-gumi” (1938), “Kimi no namae wa” (2016), Ishirō Honda’s “Gojira” (1954) and Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (1954) as well as “Nihon chin-botsu” (1973) based on Sakyo Komatsu's disaster novel Japan Sinks which pictures the country as it falls into the sea, beginning with an erupting volcano! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices