THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

CONTACT
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance e-mail

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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MERCURY for hire

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are available for hire. We offer highly competitive rates for your screening, conference, lecture or party. We can screen just about anything from 35mm CinemaScope to your Powerpoint or web based presentation. AND we can look after your catering and liquor requirements with the minimum of fuss!

YAKUZA LIFE: THE FILMS OF SEIJUN SUZUKI

Tues 29 Apr – Sat 3 May 2008

Presented by the Media Resource Centre and the Japan Australia Friendship Association to celebrate Golden Week in Japan.

Unknown to many in Australia, Seijun Suzuki (b. 1923) forged a long and successful career in Japan with a series of yakuza films made predominantly through the fifties and sixties. Suzuki’s unique style combines stark imagery, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and a warped sense of logic. His influence on a whole new generation of filmmakers throughout the east and west is indisputable. Essential viewing for fans of Lone Wolf & Cub, Lady Snowblood and Hanzo the Razor.

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A Tattooed Life || Tokyo Drifter || Branded To Kill || Pom Poko

7.30pm Tuesday 29 April

A TATTOOED LIFE (M)

Dir. Seijun Suzuki Japan 1965 87mins
Some men are marked for life.
Hired killer Tetsu wants to retire from life as a hit-man but the partners of his last kill have other ideas. Tetsu's brother Kenji tries to help, but when a yakuza is killed both brothers flee to China and hide as workers on a construction site. The yakuza will not rest until the brothers are found and bloody vengeance follows. With one of the screen's best final showdowns, maverick director Suzuki Seijun takes on a yakuza underworld adventure.

7:30pm Friday 2 May

TOKYO DRIFTER (M)

Dir. Seijun Suzuki Japan 1966 80mins
Mayhem and madness on the mean streets of Tokyo.
Warned by studio bosses to play it safe, maverick Japanese director Suzuki Seijun crafted one of the most bizarre and influential gangster films of all time.Explosive violence, tripped out colours, saucy jazz and ultra cool Yakuza - this is TOKYO DRIFTER. Former killer Tetsu has a plan to go straight and leave his violent life behind. When his past won't leave him alone, Tetsu answers the only way he knows how - in decisive and deadly fashion.

7:30pm Saturday 3 May

BRANDED TO KILL (M)

Dir. Seijun Suzuki Japan 1967 98min
Insane, surreal, violent film noir at its best.
Hanada is the 'Number 3' killer in the Japanese underworld. Hired by a mysterious woman, the scheduled hit goes very wrong and Handa is launched into a deadly cat and mouse game with the sexually perverse rice sniffing 'Number 1' killer. Filled with bizarre imagery, eroticism and brutal violence in a world where everyone seems insane - it's not hard to see why BRANDED TO KILL has been heralded by many as a masterpiece of film-noir and surreal cinema.

2:00pm Saturday 3 May

pom poko (PG) - special children's screening

Dir. Isao Takahata Japan 1994 119min 35mm
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back by perfecting the ancient Tanuki art of transformation. Able to disguise themselves as anything, even humans, they use their powers in an attempt to scare off the advancement of civilization. But will it be enough?

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