TokyoHappening
The few events worth an evening, soonest first. Each leaves the list the day after it ends.
Five events, each checked every 7 days.
Until 13 DecemberThe National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 1E
More than 50 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and decorative works of the 15th and 16th centuries lent by the Musée du Louvre, led by Leonardo da Vinci's La Belle Ferronnière, shown in Japan for the first time.
29 September to 20 DecemberTokyo National Museum, Japanese Gallery (Honkan), 1st floor, Room A
The Tokyo National Museum's first exhibition devoted to Hiroshige, showing all three of his great landscape series complete, in three parts, from the 1,025 prints of the Uchiyama Susumu gift.
26 October to 4 NovemberHibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area
The 39th edition of Tokyo's international film festival, ten days of premieres, a 15-film competition and a Mizoguchi retrospective across the cinemas of Hibiya, Yurakucho, Marunouchi and Ginza.
4 to 8 November55 museums, galleries and spaces across Tokyo; AWT Bar at emergence aoyama complex
Five days of coordinated contemporary art across 55 of Tokyo's museums and galleries, organised with Art Basel and linked by free buses.
23 November to 5 DecemberNew National Theatre, Tokyo, Opera Palace
Robert Carsen's La Scala production of Britten's Peter Grimes, new to Tokyo, five afternoons at the New National Theatre with Brandon Jovanovich in the title role and Kazushi Ono conducting.
