You can now get your copy of Time Out Tokyo magazine delivered - we ship internationally too!
Time Out Café & Diner is the sophisticated Ebisu area's newest global meeting place.
Discover Tokyo's best shopping, restaurants, nightlife with Time Out GuideBooks.
Our newsletters get the best of Tokyo delivered straight to your inbox.
Each year, Higashi-Nakano art house cinema Pole-Pole marks the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster by screening a selection of nuclear-themed films. Given the understandable interest in all things atomic at the moment (and, lest we forget, that 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl), they're pulling out the stops this time around. The two-week program consists mostly of documentaries, with work by filmmakers including Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Masato Koike, Seiichi Motohashi and Hitomi Kamanaka – most of whom will also appear at special 'teach-in' talk events. Pole-Pole well be dusting off a couple of Soviet-era classics, too. Mikhail Romm's Nine Days of One Year (1962) offered audiences a rare insight into nuclear physics research, telling the story of a young researcher who is exposed to a potentially deadly dose of radiation. Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) is a far more ambiguous work, but its vision of a futuristic wasteland, The Zone, appears to foreshadow the aftermath of Chernobyl.
Open April 23-May 6
Time Screenings from 2.20pm, 4.40pm, 7pm
Admission One screening, 1,400 yen; three screenings, 3,600 yen; five screenings, 5,000 yen
Venue Theater Pole-Pole
Address B1F, 4-4-1 Higashi-Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo
Transport Higashi-Nakano Station (Chuo-Sobu, Oedo lines)
Leave Higashi-Nakano Station, and nearby you’ll find this small shop which has just counter and ...
Don't have a kitchen in your apartment but still want to cook with friends in a fun atmosphere? ...
‘Hisamaru’ is the first name of the owner, a former professional wrestler who has swapped the ...
Copyright © 2014 Time Out Tokyo