WAMONO NIGHTS

Wamono Nights, Vol. 24! May 31st, 8pm to midnight! Time flies when you are dancing and having fun with your best friends. This marks two years of Wamono! The records keep spinning at @ladylovedallas 💃 Come boogie with us as we serve you our monthly crop of curated Japanese wax! KEEP POSTED for our upcoming 2-year anniversary blow out celebrations(with surprises)! ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ),٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡ Film by @ganlu_ Sisters @lure.n @cla.iresong

We’re shaking up our regular @ladylovedallas programming a little to deliver your doctor recommended allowance of groove. First, this month ends with the usual last Sunday soirée (vol 24!!!) on May 31. For Vol 25 in June, however, we’re hitting warp drive and accelerating the festivities to June 14 to celebrate Japan’s first round in the World Cup! That means Vol 26 on July 26 will be our Second B-Day Blowout! Expect Noobow on the dance floor, extra special tunes for the occasion, and new WAMONO merch (!?!?!?). Don’t miss it! ⁠♡ wamono mgmt ⁠♡

wamono nights is running it back again at @boogiesdtx this sunday! may 10, 8pm-midnight! special guest set by @ltracks !! new japanese vinyl selections in rotation !!! @chineseknees oliver garden 8-11pm @ltracks 11pm-midnight let’s boogie! 踊りましょう！

Our next film @texastheatre Monday, May 11: THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST. Tickets on sale now at link in bio.The second installment of Hayashi’s Maiku Hama trilogy spills out in vibrant, full-blown color as Maiku’s past resurfaces, setting in motion the events of this brooding and exquisitely shot sequel. Taking on puppy rescues during a slump in more weighty investigative work, Maiku hears word of the return of his long-lost mother who abandoned him and kid sister Akane years before. A legendary stripper named Lily-san, she sets up shop along the riverbanks of Yokohama where the presence of an enigmatic “Man in White” (Hiroshima Mon Amour’s Eiji Okada) begins to trouble both police and yakuza. Hayashi’s sequel lives and breathes the occupied history of the port city, its near-mythic riverfront still abiding by a postwar code of omertà. A remarkably emotive middle chapter, The Stairway to the Distant Past plunges Maiku into the darkest depths as he reconciles his past in its eerie final act, a nightmarish tableau vivant of painted faces and silent murmurs.

Wamono Nights vol. 23 is here! This April 26th at @ladylovedallas we are turning up the groove with a special Oliver Garden @chineseknees birthday edition solo set! Come join us on the dance floor 8pm to midnight as we deliver funky fresh Japanese vinyl straight out of the crate and into your earholes! ♪~(˘▾˘~)♪ ☆This months poster art by @aprilrosen 踊りましょう！

Monday, April 13 at 7:30PM: The Most Terrible Time In My Life Tickets at link in bio! Only at @texastheatre The first entry in Hayashi’s trilogy of films about the misadventures of detective Maiku Hama (his name a nod to Mickey Spillane’s hard-boiled antihero), The Most Terrible Time in My Life finds the indefatigable Yokohama gumshoe—played with deadpan cool by Masatoshi Nagase (Mystery Train)—on the trail of a Taiwanese immigrant’s missing brother… and in the middle of a brutal gang war. Newly restored for the trilogy’s 30th anniversary, The Most Terrible Time in My Life is a stylized mashup of ’40s American noir and early ’60s Nikkatsu crime thrillers with an offbeat sense of humor all its own, shot in that seediest of formats, black-and-white widescreen, with Hama, who keeps his office in a rundown movie palace and drives a Nash Metropolitan with California plates, the apotheosis of the hipster-sleuth. Catch all three films as part of our series programming! ★ The Most Terrible Time in My Life: April 13 ★ The Stairway to a Distant Past: May 11 ★The Trap: June 15

Wamono Nights is pleased to announce the next THREE films in its series (April, May, and June) at the @texastheatre : The Maiku Hama Trilogy (courtesy of the wonderful @kani.releasing ). Tickets at link in bio! Launched to stardom by Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train, enigmatic actor Masatoshi Nagase thrives as the hardboiled detective wannabe Maiku Hama in Kaizo Hayashi’s trilogy of the same name, encompassing The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994) (April 13), The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) (May 11) and The Trap (1996) (June 15). Stomping through the bustling-and-hustling port city of Yokohama, Hama operates out of a run-down movie theatre and his office sees every kind of customer: from rich ladies looking for runaway pups to serial murderers who look suspiciously like himself… Equal part American hardboiled detective pastiche, Seijun Suzuki-style Nikkatsu akushon send-up, and Masatoshi Nagase’s own new school comedic charmer, the Maiku Hama Trilogy is a cult phenomena of 90s Japanese cinema, that would go on to inspire many – and spawn its own anthology NTV television series The Private Detective Mike by 2002.

No April foolin’, we’re back at @shyboy.hifi this Sunday, April 5. The very last show before @kylethedesyroya and @chineseknees are (temporarily) separated by an ocean, you don’t want to miss this one! Good tunes, good people, and ice cream: BE THERE!!!

It's a Wamono Wednesday kind of groove Taken on: Portra 400 🎞 #filmphotography #portra400 #filmcamera #citypopレコード #djlife🎧

Our film series trailer for @texastheatre ! See it on the Texas Theatre’s new website (link in bio) where you will find all of our upcoming screenings, and catch it before other movies on the big screen at the Theatre!! (Trailer by world’s greatest Tommy of @thebeaconsea )

Monday, March 23 at 7:30: the 4K remaster of Mamoru Oshii’s THE RED SPECTACLES only at @texastheatre . Tickets at link in bio! “Oshii managing to corral the influences of ‘60s Godard style post-modernism and ‘80s Godard style poetic ennui alongside elements of Seijun Suzuki and Jerry Lewis.” -Letterboxd user TheOwlBlind

Vol. 22: The bell finally tolls for DJ Silph Scope for his final appearance (for now) at @ladylovedallas before his move to Seoul. March 29 is going to be a VERY special night dedicated to the best venue on earth and the community that has so warmly embraced us. Let’s do this send off right! We can’t wait to see you all! This month’s absolutely bonkers flier by @macho_my_dude of @bestufriendoco !!! 踊りましょう！