A CENTURY IN SOUND

LONDON PREMIERE + Q&A

CALLING ALL AUDIOPHILES!

Press play on Japan’s Ongaku Kissa - listening cafés where music is treated with near-religious devotion.
Visiting three shrines to sound, devoted to classical, jazz and rock, this film meets the obsessive audiophiles who run them and the loyal regulars who listen in silence. Tracing post-war Japan to the late ’80s, it’s a love letter to craft, culture, and turning it up by sitting very, very still.

DIRECTOR Q&A HOSTED BY FILM WRITER AND FORMER TOKYO RESIDENT BECCA VOELCKER

In Partnership with the Barbican film season - The Old Ways

Nick Dwyer, Tuataroa Rapana | Japan/Sweden| 2024 | 106 min