Authorized films of “Anna Karenina the Musical” and “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Async Live at the Park Avenue Armory” will be shown at Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center this week.

Noblewoman Anna Karenina lives with her respected husband and loving son. She encounters the dashing Count Vronsky among Moscow’s high society and their undeniable attraction for each other forever changes the landscape of her seemingly perfect world.

The dramatic love story found within the pages of Leo Tolstoy’s literary classic is reimagined in this musical brought by Russia’s acclaimed Moscow Operetta Theater. With all-original numbers that will capture your heart, “Anna Karenina the Musical” takes you on an emotional journey through the glitz and glamour of 19th-century Russia.

In April 2017, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto gave a live performance of his album “Async” at the Veterans Room of the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in the United States.

The album was conceived around the time the Oscar-winning avant-classical composer was undergoing radiology treatment for throat cancer, which may explain why much of it is preoccupied with themes of mortality and finite time.

Director Stephen Nomura Schible was on hand to capture the performance for this crisp concert film, which serves as a companion piece to “Coda,” his documentary of Sakamoto.

Playing solo in front of a selected, hushed, reverential audience, Sakamoto alternates between grand piano, vintage synthesizer keyboard and laptop computer. His professorial appearance is as formal and impeccably tailored as the music; his expression furrowed, his silver swoop of hair swishing gently as he bows in concentration. This is a concert movie but unusually intimate and intense, with ultra-sharp high-end acoustics to capture every textural glitch and microtonal quiver in Sakamoto’s deluxe minimalist sound paintings.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Oct. 29 (“Anna Karenina”), Oct. 30 (“Async Live”)

Tickets: 99-199 yuan

Venue: Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center, Nanshan District (南山区南山文体中心)

Metro: Line 1 to Taoyuan Station (桃园站), Exit B(SD News)