SUN MAR 8, 2026 2:00 PM THE NAKED ISLAND $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission) ; $16.00 (student) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Aero Theatre | ‘Transcendental Appointments’ This event has passed Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP. * All fields are required First Name * Last Name * Email * Quantity * Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM: In Japanese with English subtitles. A trailblazing (and enormously influential) hybrid of documentary and fiction, Shindô’s independently financed work of lyrical ethnography records the daily travails of a family—non-professional actors all, performing staged recreations of scenes from their own lives—scraping out a subsistence living through backbreaking toil on a remote, windswept island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Almost entirely eschewing spoken dialogue and featuring an eloquent modernist score by Hikaru Hayashi, THE NAKED ISLAND is cinema stripped down to the barest of essentials, the widescreen black-and-white cinematography of Kiyomi Kuroda magnificent in its stark beauty, lending Shindô’s film something of the quality of a fable. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Japan