Please note the earlier than usual start time of 4:45pm
"Lee Sang-il's heartfelt and muscular epic (whose title means 'national treasure') was a box-office smash on its Japanese home turf, winning a host of festival awards and an Oscar nomination. It's a mighty Cain-and-Abel drama spanning five decades, set in the rarefied world of kabuki theatre where some of the most exotically prized performers are the onnagata, the men who have mastered the rigorously observed discipline of playing women in classical kabuki roles, a convention which arose from Japan's 17th-century banning of women on stage, rather as they once were in England 100 years before" - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.