Go Out! Weekday events can be fun

Japanese pop-punk trio Shonen Knife plays the Hi-Tone Cafe on Wednesday.

TUESDAY

All Hail the King!

International garage rock duo The King Khan & BBQ Show returns to Memphis for a concert at the Hi-Tone Café on Tuesday. Tennessee girl country combo Those Darlins and Oakland pop outfit Shannon and the Clams open up.

Japanese pop-punk trio Shonen Knife plays the Hi-Tone Cafe on Wednesday.

Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo appear in the Japanese classic "Rashomon," from 1950. Showing Thursday at Malco's Studio on the Square.

Cover is $10. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are available at the door or at hitonemephis.com. The Hi-Tone is at 1913 Poplar. For more information, call 278-8663.

Moe. Music

Long-running jam band moe. returns to Memphis for a concert at Minglewood Hall on Tuesday night. The group, founded in upstate New York in the early-'90s, has become a staple of the festival circuit and created a small cottage industry with its moe. music ocean cruises.

Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets for the concert are $23. They're available at the Minglewood Hall box office (1555 Madison Ave.) online at minglewoodhall.com or by calling 1-866-609-1744.

WEDNESDAY

Made in Japan

Though they recently marked their 25th year together, the Japanese all-girl pop-punk trio Shonen Knife still retains the doe-eyed sweetness -- part '60s girl group preciousness, part Ramones-style spunk -- of their youth. The Osaka-based threesome, featuring founding member Naoko Yamano and new members Etsuko Nakanishi and Ritsuko Taneda, have released the new album Super Group, the band's 16th, and are bringing their sunny, quirky style stateside for a show Wednesday at the Hi-Tone Café. Jeff the Brotherhood and Modern Convenience open.

Doors open at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance, $13 day of show. Advance tickets available at hitonememphis.com. For more information, call (901) 278-8663.

THURSDAY

Samurai Cinema

If you enjoy "Pulp Fiction" or "The Usual Suspects" or any other film that moves back and forth in time, to show events from different points of view, then you need to see the international hit that introduced the technique to moviegoers and also made the West aware of Japanese cinema: Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950), the story of an investigation into the murder of a samurai and the rape of his wife. What makes this event particularly noteworthy is that this masterpiece will be screened in a newly restored 35-mm film print, from the original camera negatives. Hosted by Indie Memphis and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the screening takes place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Malco's Studio on the Square.

Tickets: $7, or $5 for Indie Memphis and Brooks members.

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