Monday Happenings

Movies

-- The HFA's Nagisa Oshima retrospective continues. Thought you knew all of the enfants terribles of sixties cinema? The director of In the Realm of the Senses (1976) got an early start shocking the staid world of Japanese filmmaking. His daring 1960 film The Cruel Story of Youth is a tale of high school corruption and lost innocence that launched a subgenre of youth exploitation movies known as taiyozoku. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Choruses

-- The omnipresent centenarian Elliott Carter pops up again on a NEC program as Amy Lieberman conducts three different NEC choruses: the NEC Chamber Singers, the NEC Concert Choir, and the NEC Women's Chorus. The performances include Carter's Musicians Wrestle Everywhere and The Harmony of Morning and works by Barber, Byrd, Messiaen, Brahms, and Tavener. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough, 8 p.m. Free.

Dancing Hipsters

-- Cambridge fixture Beat Research brings low tech dance music from two continents to Mass. Ave. Stu, a Swiss performer, holds the epithet "Don Atari electro," which should let you know what to expect. Argentinian 8GB has assembled an audio-visual performance that makes "danceable beats with old computer data," that sound fresh despite their vintage. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free.