Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in September, 2007
From September of this year, the Japan Foundation is pleased to present
and co-sponsor ongoing screenings of Japanese films at the following
exhibitions and international film festivals around the world.
Regularly-presented Japanese film shows
< Organized >
Touring Japanese Film Festival in East Europe
| Date: |
May, 2007 to March, 2008 |
| Venue: |
September, 2007: Croatia/ Zagreb (9/24-10/2), Greece, Cyprus
(Traveling Screens: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Macedonia,
Lithuania,
Latvia,
Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Greece, Cyprus) |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation,
Budapest |
| Films Screened: |
Ping Pong Bath Station by Gen Yamakawa, Women in
the Mirror by Kijyu(Yoshishige) Yoshida, bright future by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Go by Isao Yukisada, Ramblers by
Nobuhiro Yamashita, Shinkokyu no Hitsuyo by Tetsuo Shinohara, Byplayer by
Kaneto Shindo |
Retrospective of Nobuo Nakagawa
| Date: |
August 10 to 20 (Bogotá), August 23 to September 3, 2007 (Madellín) |
| Venue: |
Colombia /Bogotá: Sala Los Acevedo del MAMBO, Cinemateca
Distrital, Cinemateca de la Universidad Nacional, Madellín: Centro Colombo Americano |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Colombia |
| Films Screened: |
The Ghost of Yotsuya, Jikoku (Hell), Lynch |
Japanese Film Festival 2007
| Date: |
August 23 to 27 (Kuala Lumpur), August 31 to September 2 (Penang) |
| Venue: |
GSC Mid Valley & GSC 1 Utama (New Wing), GSC Gurney Plaza (Penang) |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, Golden Screen Cinemas Sdn. Bhd |
| Films Screened: |
The Milkwoman by Akira gata, Linda Linda Linda by Nobuhiro Yamashita, We Shall Overcome Someday by Kazuyuki Izutsu |
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
| Date: |
August 23 to September 1 |
| Venue: |
Five venues including the Museu da Imagem e do Som |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation, São Paulo |
| Films Screened: |
Japan will feature short animation films of Osamu Tetzuka. |
| Date: |
September 4 to 13 |
| Venue: |
Ayala Malls Cinemas (Manila) |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation, Manila |
| Films Screened: |
In the First International Silent Film Festival, three organizations from Germany, Japan, and Spain will each present one representative silent film from its respective country. The films will be screened to live music performed by Philippine musicians. The Japan Foundation will present "Orochi (A Monster Serpent)," with music by the Makiling Ensemble. |
1st International Silent Film Festival
| Date: |
September 7 to October 26 |
| Venue: |
Cine Qua Non Myeong-dong (Seoul) |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation, Seoul |
| Films Screened: |
The Japan Foundation, Seoul, will co-organize a film series with Cinequanon Korea, in which selections from its film library will be screened. The Shohei Imamura retrospective will feature eight films by the leading Japanese director. On August 31, to mark the opening of the series, the Foundation will invite Daisuke Tengan, Imamura's son and a film director himself, to Korea for a talk show with a Korean film critic. |
CQN Selected Masterpieces of Japanese Cinema: Shohei Imamura Retrospective
| Date: |
September 10 to October 29 |
| Venue: |
The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne |
| Films Screened: |
To coincide with the exhibition of photographer Daido Moriyama to be held at the SK Cultural Foundation in Cologne from September 5 to November 18, the Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne will present two documentary films on Moriyama; the movie "Tobenai Chinmoku (Silence Has No Wings)," in which he provided the still photography; works by the late Shuji Terayama, with whom Moriyama had close ties; and other Japanese films selected by the photographer. |
Daido Moriyama: Films and Photos of the Showa era
| Date: |
September 11 to 23 |
| Venue: |
National Museum of Singapore |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Singapore |
| Films Screened: |
The Ballad of Narayama, Vengeance is Mine by Shohei Imamura, INOCHI by Tetsuo Shinohara |
Japanese Film Festiva
| Date: |
September 11 to 30 |
| Venue: |
Canada/Ottawa, Hamilton, Regina, Banff, Vancouver, Victoria, Montreal, Hari Fox, Toronto, Hamilton |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation |
| Films Screened: |
Hotel Hibiscus by Yuji Nakae, The Twilight Samurai by Yoji Yamada, Kamikaze Girls by Tetsuya Nakashima, The Glass Rabbit by Setsuko Shibuichi |
Touring Japanese Film Festival in Canada
| Date: |
September 25 to October 2 (Moscow), November 23 to 28 (St. Petersburg) |
| Venue: |
Muzei Kino (Moscow), Dom Kino (St. Petersburg) |
| Presented by: |
The Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Russia, Muzei Kino, Consulate-General of Japan in Saint-Petersburg, Dom Kino |
| Films Screened: |
Kinoshita Keisuke's Works: Twelve Pairs of Eyes, Ballad Of The Narayama, Woman, My First Love Affair, The Yotsuya Ghost Story, Morning for the Osone Family, Carmen Comes Home, Carmen's Pure Love, Spring Dreams |
The Ninth Japanese Film Retrospective
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