Movie Screening & Author's Talk
'A Man' Screening and Chat with Keiichiro Hirano

Date:
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Start Time:
7:00pm

Location:
Los Feliz 3 Theatre
1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Talk by Author Keiichiro Hirano
TICKET INFORMATION TO BE ANNOUNCED
 

Join American Cinematheque and The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, at the historic Los Feliz Theatre for a special 35mm screening of A Man (Dir. Kei Ishikawa, 2022). Following the film, there will be a conversation and Q&A with author Keiichiro Hirano, on whose book the film was based. The talk will be moderated by Professor Kerim Yasar.
 

MOVIE DESCRIPTION
After divorcing, Rie has found happiness with her second husband Daisuke and formed a new family. But when Daisuke dies in a tragic accident, she discovers her new husband was not the man she thought he was. Rie calls on the attorney Kido to help her find the truth about the identity of the man she loved. A quest that will open larger questions about the nature of identity itself, and what makes a person real at all.

In partnership with the American Cinematheque.

Author:

Keiichiro Hirano
Keiichiro Hirano is an award-winning Japanese author who debuted with Eclipse and won the Akutagawa Prize at age 23. Renowned for his psychological insight and exploration of universal themes like identity, love, and acceptance, his work spans literary fiction, essays. His novels have been widely translated, At the End of the Matinee, A MAN, and The Real You have been adapted for film. A former cultural envoy to Paris, he has delivered lectures across Europe and appeared in a TED talk on self-love and identity.

His books available in English include A MAN (2020), At the End of the Matinee (2021), and Eclipse (2024). He has also published in Japan, a critical study on Yukio Mishima and, most recently, the short story collection Mt. Fuji. He has been staying in New York for an extended period since the summer of 2025.

Moderator:

Kerim Yasar
Kerim Yasar is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California, where he specializes in modern Japanese literature, East Asian cinema, and media history. His scholarship explores the intersections of technology and culture, most notably in his monograph Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Columbia University Press, 2018). This work provides a groundbreaking look at how auditory technologies reconstructed Japanese language and performance during the modernization era. In addition to this research, he is active as a translator in a variety of genres and media, from contemporary novels to pre-modern poetry to the subtitles for more than a hundred feature films in the Criterion Collection/Janus Films library, including classic works by directors such as Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasujirō, and Ōshima Nagisa. He is also the translator of Hirano Keiichirō’s novella, The Transparent Labyrinth.

He is currently working on a second book project, Gestures in Light, which offers a critical examination of physical expressivity and the body in Japanese cinema. He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.