Events

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Directed by Jeong Yoon-cheol. South Korea. 2017. Starring Yeo Jin-Goo, Lee Jung-jae, and Kim Mu-yeol. Korean with English subtitles. 130 mins.  This star-studded historical epic takes place during the I...

Join docent Lizzy Lowrey for a tour featuring the exhibition Maki Haku and Poetry of Form, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Directed by Lee Joon-ik. South Korea. 2017. Korean with English subtitles. 129 mins. During the era of Japanese occupation of Korea, Koreans living in Tokyo were severely exploited by Japanese. After the...

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Written and directed by Justin Chon. USA. 2017. Starring Justin Chon, Simone Baker, and David So. 94 mins. Korean American brothers Eli (Justin Chon, The Twilight Saga, Seoul Searching) and Daniel (David...

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Written and directed by Justin Chon. USA. 2017. Starring Justin Chon, Simone Baker, and David So. 94 mins. Korean American brothers Eli (Justin Chon, The Twilight Saga, Seoul Searching) and Daniel (David...

Hawai‘i’s Woodshow, Na Lā‘au o Hawai‘i marks the 25th anniversary of the Hawai‘i Forest Industry Association’s (HFIA) annual juried woodworking exhibition. See heirloom-quality works made from koa...

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Directed by Lee Joon-ik. South Korea. 2017. Korean with English subtitles. 129 mins. During the era of Japanese occupation of Korea, Koreans living in Tokyo were severely exploited by Japanese. After the...

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. South Korean. 2017. 132 mins. Korean with English subtitles. Hana hou screening! The newest film from Ryoo Seung-wan (Veteran, Berlin File) is one of most anticipated releases...

Part of Korean Cinema 2017 Directed by Lee Joon-ik. South Korea. 2017. Korean with English subtitles. 129 mins. During the era of Japanese occupation of Korea, Koreans living in Tokyo were severely exploited by Japanese. After the...

Directed by Frederick Wiseman. USA. 1967. Black and white. 84 mins.  See a brand new 4K restoration of this landmark documentary, which turns 50 this year, along with bonus content. Titicut Follies was the first film to be banned i...

Join docent Lizzy Lowrey for a tour featuring the exhibition Maki Haku and Poetry of Form, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman. USA. 2017. Documentary. 197 min. After covering Paris’s Crazy Horse nightclub, the Metropolitan Hospital Center, Nieman Marcus, and a boxing gym, Frederick Wiseman, 87, devotes his 42nd documentary t...

Directed by Bill Morrison. USA. 2017. Documentary. 120 mins. This New York Times Critics’ Pick is a meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison, that pieces together the bizarre, true history of a long-lo...

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana. USA. 2017. Documentary. 102 mins. This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound—and overlooked—influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North Americ...

Join docent Mary Flynn for a tour of our biggest exhibition of the year Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admi...

Directed by Frederick Wiseman. USA. 2017. Documentary. 197 min. After covering Paris’s Crazy Horse nightclub, the Metropolitan Hospital Center, Nieman Marcus, and a boxing gym, Frederick Wiseman, 87, devotes his 42nd documentary t...

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana. USA. 2017. Documentary. 102 mins. This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound—and overlooked—influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North Americ...

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana. USA. 2017. Documentary. 102 mins. This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound—and overlooked—influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North Americ...

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana. USA. 2017. Documentary. 102 mins. This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound—and overlooked—influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North Americ...

Join docent Mary Flynn for a tour of our biggest exhibition of the year Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admi...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Matthew Heineman. Documentary. USA 2017. English and Arabic with English subtitles. 91 mins. Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew ...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Babak Jalali. USA/Iran. 2017. Farsi, English, Dari, and Assyrian with English subtitles. 91 mins. Radio Dreams looks at the odd yet very real world of PARS-FM—a Farsi-language radio stat...

Rothko, Abe, Pollock, Sato, de Kooning, Takaezu—New York School meets the Metcalf Chateau in Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West! From a time when hep cats ruled. Presented by First Insurance Company of Hawaii. ...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Babak Jalali. USA/Iran. 2017. Farsi, English, Dari, and Assyrian with English subtitles. 91 mins. Radio Dreams looks at the odd yet very real world of PARS-FM—a Farsi-language radio stat...

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana. USA. 2017. Documentary. 102 mins. This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound—and overlooked—influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North Americ...

Join docent Mary Flynn for a tour of our biggest exhibition of the year Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admi...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Matthew Heineman. Documentary. USA 2017. English and Arabic with English subtitles. 91 mins. Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew ...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Babak Jalali. USA/Iran. 2017. Farsi, English, Dari, and Assyrian with English subtitles. 91 mins. Radio Dreams looks at the odd yet very real world of PARS-FM—a Farsi-language radio stat...

Directed by Frederick Wiseman. USA. 2017. Documentary. 197 min. After covering Paris’s Crazy Horse nightclub, the Metropolitan Hospital Center, Nieman Marcus, and a boxing gym, Frederick Wiseman, 87, devotes his 42nd documentary t...

Directed by Bill Morrison. USA. 2017. Documentary. 120 mins. This New York Times Critics’ Pick is a meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison, that pieces together the bizarre, true history of a long-lo...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Matthew Heineman. Documentary. USA 2017. English and Arabic with English subtitles. 91 mins. Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew ...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Matthew Heineman. Documentary. USA 2017. English and Arabic with English subtitles. 91 mins. Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew ...

Part of the Seventh Art Stand. Directed by Matthew Heineman. Documentary. USA 2017. English and Arabic with English subtitles. 91 mins. Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew ...

Presented by Professor C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania Since 1991 Professor Rose has been co-director of the excavations at Troy. In 1988 archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Tübingen, Ge...

In partnership the Georgia E. Morikawa Center (GEM).  Experience the depth and beauty of American Sign Language (“ASL”) through the artistry of Hawai'i’s Deaf performers. Through a kaleidoscope of informative, int...

Part of Abstract Expressionism Public Programs. Butoh emerged in Japan in the aftermath of World War II as a dance based on natural movement of “common folk,” but was also influenced by western art movements such as Sur...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1943. Japanese with English subtitles. 79 min.Kurosawa’s wartime directorial debut is based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita about the rivalry between judo and jiu...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1945. Japanese with English subtitles. 83 min.Kurosawa’s first film, Sanshiro Sugata, was such a success that the studio leaned on the director to m...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1945. Japanese with English subtitles. 60 min.“During the war, I hungered for the beautiful,” said Kurosawa, and his austere yet gorgeous four...

Part of Abstract Expressionism Public Programs. Koichi and Hiroko Tamano—considered the parents of Butoh in the U.S.—perform at the Honolulu Museum of Art on Oct 7. Then they generously offer this workshop Butoh wo...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1946. Japanese with English subtitles. 110 min.Before her career-defining collaborations with Yasujiro Ozu, in which she embodied the female spirit of post-WWI...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1947. Japanese with English subtitles. 109 min. This affectionate paean to young love is also a frank examination by Akira Kurosawa of the harsh realities of p...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1948. Japanese with English subtitles. 98 min.Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune are one of cinema's great director-actor duos, and Mifune’s breakthrough ...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1948. Japanese with English subtitles. 98 min.Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune are one of cinema's great director-actor duos, and Mifune’s breakthrough ...

Part of the 2017 Hawai‘i Belly Dance Convention. In its 3rd year for this year’s convention, enjoy Q&A with headlining artists followed by the Reflection performance review. Starting at 6pm, there will be a Q+A panel wi...

Part of the 2017 Hawai'i Belly Dance Convention. This intimate night of Middle Eastern culture features special guest performers from across North America along with local favorites. Performers include Sadie Marquardt, Simon Lebane...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1949. Japanese with English subtitles. 122 min.In this police procedural, a bad day gets worse for young homicide detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals h...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1950. Japanese with English subtitles. 88 min.A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon is w...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1951. Japanese with English subtitles. 166 min.After finishing Rashomon, which would become his international phenomenon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to ...

Entertainment and art activities end at 3pm. ART ACTIVITIES LEAHI (LEGO Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii): 11:00am-3pm. See castles inspired by those in Europe and Japan made from LEGOs created by members from LEAHI. Kids can als...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1952. Japanese with English subtitles. 143 min.Middle-aged bureaucrat Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) seeks to escape the monotony of his life after a termina...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1952. Japanese with English subtitles. 143 min.Middle-aged bureaucrat Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) seeks to escape the monotony of his life after a termina...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1957. Japanese with English subtitles. 109 min.A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and d...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1960. Japanese with English subtitles. 150 min.A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep...

For centuries, the Indian subcontinent was renowned as a center for the production of cotton textiles. The earliest archaeological fragments, found in the Indus Valley of Pakistan, date back to 3200 B.C. The related industries of process...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1960. Japanese with English subtitles. 150 min.A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1957. Japanese with English subtitles. 109 min.A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and d...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1954. Japanese with English subtitles. 208 min.Kurosawa’s 3.5-/hour action epic is both his longest film and his sturdiest claim to immortality. Seven Sa...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1954. Japanese with English subtitles. 208 min.Kurosawa’s 3.5-/hour action epic is both his longest film and his sturdiest claim to immortality. Seven Sa...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1957. Japanese with English subtitles. 125 min.Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat ...

Doors open at 6pm with beer and wine available for purchase. Show starts at 7pm. Get ready to LOL your pants off! See live performances featuring local comedians along with live music and laugh-out-loud videos. First premiered in 2015,...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1958. Japanese with English subtitles. 139 min.A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifu...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1961. Japanese with English subtitles. 110 min.Toshiro Mifune puts his swagger and expressiveness on full display in his first turn as Sanjuro, a ronin adrift ...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1962. Japanese with English subtitles. 96 min.The adventures of Sanjuro continue in this sequel, in which he is hired by a group of samurai to help them expose...

Part of Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Japan. 1961. Japanese with English subtitles. 110 min.Toshiro Mifune puts his swagger and expressiveness on full display in his first turn as Sanjuro, a ronin adrift ...

At the beginning of the 17th century, the shogun of Japan demanded that the lord (daimyō) of each province, and his retainers, spend half of every year in the capital of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Traffic along highways such as the Tōkaidō...

Come spend the night with some Halloween royalty! All Scream Queens and Kings of Horror welcome. Presented by iichiko  Note: Costumes are encouraged, but be advised that the following will not be allowed on site:• Weapon...

Lopaka Kapanui returns to tell stories about Hawai‘i's spiritual realm. Huaka‘i O Ka Po - Travelers of the Night. The legendary Night Marchers had an actual purpose in life and it is said that they are merely carrying out th...

Part of Abstract Expressionism Public Programs Museum director Sean O'Harrow, Ph.D, who orchestrated a world tour of Jackson Pollock’s famed Mural when he was previously director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will talk ...

MONEY TALKS: But What the Hell is it Saying blends the inspirational aspects of a TED Talk with the glitter and excitement of a Broadway musical. It’s the first show of its kind to shine an empowering light on a subject almost ever...

Between Ocean and Sky: Hana Yoshihata Hawai'i-island artist Hana Yoshihata is inspired by her experiences on traditional voyaging canoes such as the Hokule‘a. Working on sheets of paper placed flat on the floor or table, Yoshi...