Join us at 8:30pm on Wednesday, 29th July 2015, for an evening of Japanese New Wave cinema at the Rosemont underpass just west of St. Denis: we will be just off the bike path north of the train tracks in Rosemont, just next to 5795 av. De Gaspe.

The sweltering Tokyo summer serves as the setting for GOOD-FOR-NOTHING (1960), a stunningly photographed riff on the “bad youth” genre that gripped audiences living in the spiritual and material ruins of postwar, post-Occupation Japan. Shooting in razor-sharp B&W and cutting with sly, deadpan wit, Yoshida Kijū – arguably the most formally rigorous of Japan’s New Wave directors – plays out his love story between an independent-minded woman and a sensitive nihilistic hunk as a series of cons and games, probing the boundaries between impersonation and identity, imitation and reality, the jokey and the deadly serious as it builds to its rivetingly tense conclusion. An underseen classic of New Wave cinema that echoes Godard’s BREATHLESS despite being released simultaneous to that film, GOOD-FOR-NOTHING seedily, stylishly celebrates a summer gloriously misspent, asking, what else is summer—and youth—good for? And answering: nothing.