Events & Gatherings
Cinema at the Museum: Mermaid Legend
This July, Cinema at the Museum presents a series of films that depict the summertime, along with all of its complexities. From obsession to revenge, and desperation to racial tension, these films present the heat and heightened intensity of summer and its potential for passion, justice, and camaraderie.
Friday, July 25, 7 PM
Film: Mermaid Legend
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda
Year: 1984
Runtime: 110 minutes
Country: Japan
Rating: 18A
Japanese cult filmmaker Toshiharu Ikeda (EVIL DEAD TRAP) brings his genre-bending vision to the world of revenge cinema in the melancholy and brutal Mermaid Legend. Framed for the murder of her husband and left for dead, diver Migiwa undergoes a dark campaign of subterfuge and violence to take her righteous vengeance against the ones who took everything from her. Loaded with gorgeous underwater photography, surprising environmentalist themes, and topped with a blood-soaked climax for the ages, revenge has never tasted sweeter than it does in Mermaid Legend.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Special thanks to the American Genre Film Archive for assisting with this screening.
Event/Exhibition meta autogenerated block.
When
July 25 at 7:00PM–9:00PM
Where
SaskTel Theatre
July 25 at 7:00PM – 9:00PM
Film tickets are $10 at the front desk; free admission for members and youth under 18. Seating is first come, first served. Talks, tours and other events are admission by donation or free with membership.