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Japanese Movie Screening with Subtitles in Foreign Languages
Invitation to Film Screenings
The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office hosts Japanese Cultural Film Screenings from September to November, 2009. Out of the Japan Foundation collection, 50 films to introduce Japanese cultures with English subtitles will be shown in 25 screenings (two films per screening).
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Masterpieces of Japanese Traditional Brocade(Nishiki)
and books are displayed in addition to the screening of “The Looms of Time”
- Free Admission
- Reservation Not Required
- Screenings start from 3:00pm.
- Admission is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis
- Venue: Event Hall, Kyoto International Community House
- Presented by: The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office
- Co- presented by: Kyoto City International Foundation
*These screening are presented as part of 20th Anniversary of Kyoto International Community House
Schedule
September, 2009
| Date | Title | Length (min.) |
| Sep. 1 (Tue.) |
Jewels of The Skies: The Fireworks of Japan | 35 |
| Kites of Japan | 28 | |
| Sep. 2 (Wed.) |
Continuity in Craftsmanship: Lacquerware in Tohoku | 30 |
| Maki-e: Gold Lacquer | 31 | |
| Sep. 3 (Thu.) |
Hand-made Japanese Paper | 31 |
| Tsutsumu | 28 | |
| Sep. 4 (Fri.) |
Stencil Dyeing: Edo Komon And Chugata | 30 |
| The Beauty of Japanese Embroidery: A Meeting of Spirit and Technique | 38 | |
| Sep. 8 (Tue.) |
From The Asian Continent: Chinese Characters and Buddhism in Japan | 29 |
| On A Wind from The South: The First European Impact on Japanese Culture | 29 | |
| Sep. 9 (Wed.) |
Buddhist Art | 27 |
| Horyuji Temple | 23 | |
| Sep. 10 (Thu.) |
Zen Culture, Zen Spirit | 29 |
| Zen Temple: The Eiheiji | 50 | |
| Sep. 17 (Thu.) |
Sesshu: Great Landscape Painter of Japan | 30 |
| Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji | 30 | |
| Sep. 18 (Fri.) |
The Bunraku Puppet Theatre | 35 |
| Bunraku: Sonezaki Shinju Journey to The Tenjin Woods | 28 |
October, 2009
| Date | Title | Length (min.) |
| Oct. 7 (Wed.) |
Japanese Dolls | 34 |
| From Karakuri To Modern Technology | 29 | |
| Oct. 8 (Thu.) |
Utamaro: Master of Ukiyo-e | 45 |
| The Townspeople of Edo: An Ukiyo-e Portrait | 20 | |
| Oct. 14 (Wed.) |
The Taiko | 20 |
| The Edo Stage:Kabuki and Bunraku | 29 | |
| Oct. 15 (Thu.) |
Invitation to Kabuki | 33 |
| Koken: Stage Assistants in Kabuki | 44 | |
| Oct. 16 (Fri.) |
Onnagata: The Making of A Kabuki Female Impersonator | 29 |
| The Music of Kabuki: The Almanac of Love | 35 | |
| Oct. 20 (Tue.) |
Kyo-mai: Traditional Kyoto Dance-Yachiyo Inoue IV | 30 |
| Torches of The Todaiji | 40 | |
| Oct. 21 (Wed.) |
The Noh Mask | 35 |
| Zeami and The Noh Theatre | 50 | |
| Oct. 22 (Thu.) |
A Master of Earth and Fire: Uichi Shimizu | 31 |
| Shoen Uemura: Painter of Beautiful Women | 20 | |
| Oct. 23 (Fri.) |
Shiko Munakata, Master of The Wood-block Print | 32 |
| Gyoshu Hayami: Pioneer of Modern Japanese Painting | 20 |
November, 2009
| Date | Title | Length (min.) |
| Nov. 4 (Wed.) |
Kyoto Imperial Palace | 25 |
| Gagaku (Court Music) | 25 | |
| Nov. 5 (Thu.) |
Katsura Imperial Villa | 21 |
| Shugakuin Imperial Villa | 23 | |
| Nov. 6 (Fri.) |
The Rooftiles of Japan: Beauty, Form, And Function | 23 |
| Ise: The Roots of Japanese Architecture | 40 | |
| Nov. 10 (Tue.) |
Choju,Jinbutsu Giga: Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and People | 30 |
| Narrative Picture Scrolls | 28 | |
| Nov. 11 (Wed.) |
The Spirit of Tea: Sen No Rikyu | 47 |
| Wagashi: The Beauty and Spirit of Japanese Confections | 22 | |
| Nov. 12 (Thu.) |
Korin House: A Re-creation | 35 |
| Crafts of Edo | 29 | |
| Nov. 13 (Fri.) |
The Yuzen Silk: The Dyeing Art of Kakoh Moriguchi | 30 |
| The Looms of Time* | 45 |
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*Masterpieces of Japanese Traditional Brocade(Nishiki)
and books are displayed in addition to the screening of “The Looms of Time”
On Friday, November 13, along with the screening of “The Looms of Time”, related brocade and books are displayed by Mr. Koho Tastumura, who is a son of Mr. Heizo Tatsumura II(Kosho), a renowned textile artist of Kyoto.
Mr. Koho Tatsumura is also a textile artist living in Kyoto, not only engaged in producing works of Japanese traditional brocade but also being actively involved in presentation of Japanese textiles as cultural assets. Mr. Tatsumura will show up at the screening of “The Looms of Time”.We hope you visit and join this very special occasion.
“The Looms of Time”
This is the story of a piece of silk…an ancient, tattered fragment of figured brocade that has supplied a long missing link in the history of cultural exchanges between East and West.
At the beginning of this century, a Japanese expedition set out to trace the fabled Silk Road that once crossed Central Asia, linking China with the Middle East and, beyond that, with Europe. On its return to Japan, the expedition took with it a mummy that it had found in a subterranean tomb with at Turfan. The brocade in question lay on the mummy's face, covering it like a mask.
The cloth was faded and rotting, yet for one man who lived in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto it was to come as a revelation. That same brocade, he realized, concealed the long-sought-after key to the origin of another, celebrated piece of broche that since ancient times had been in the possession of Japan's Horyuji temple.
On the basis of that fragile fragment, he set about restoring the original silk in all its brilliance… and, as he did so, there gradually emerged on his loom a piece of the long-lost-fabric of history, a piece of history with threads extending from Japan to China and on to the mysterious depths of Central Asia…
For more information, contact:
The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office
3rd Floor, Kyoto International Community House
2-1 Torii-cho, Awataguchi,
Sakyo-ku Kyoto, 606-8436 JAPAN
TEL: 075-762-1136 FAX: 075-762-1137