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Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in January, 2009
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 | |||
| Bangkok, Thai | Jakarta, Indonesia | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Sydney, Australia |
< Organized >
| Date: | January 5 to March 12 |
| Venue: | Germany/ Berlin (Kino Arsenal), Cologne (The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne, January 5 to March 5), Italy/ Rome (The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome January 8 to March 12) |
| Presented by: | Japan Foundation, National Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Kawakita Memorial Film Institute, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art |
| Films Screened: | Akira Kurosawa:Stray Dog, Rashomon, Ikiru, Nagisa Oshima: Violence at Noon, Boy, The Ceremony, Kaneto Shindo: The Island, Onibaba, A Last Note, Shohei Imamura: Intentions of Murder, Vengeance is Mine, Black Rain, Sumiko Haneda: Ode to Mt. Yahachine, Akiko-Portrait of a Dancer, Into the Picture Scroll, Kon Ichikawa: A Full-Up Train aka Crammed Streetcar, Conflagration, Her Brother, Yoji Yamada: Where Spring Comes Late, Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset, The Yellow Handkerchief, Seijun Suzuki: The Tokyo Wanderer, Branded to Kill, Zigeunerweisen |
| Date: | January 18 to Feburary 26 |
| Venue: | Myanmar/ Yangon, Mandalay |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Myanmar |
| Films Screened: | Nabbie’s Love by Yuji Nakae, Waterboys by Shinobu Yaguchi, Linda Linda Linda by Nobuhiro Yamashita, Ping Pong Bath Station by Gen Yamashita |
| Date: | January 19 to 28 |
| Venue: | Indonesia/ Jakarta |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, Kineforum |
| Films Screened: | Bright Future, License to Live, Cure and others by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Violent Cop, Sonatine, Kikujiro and others by Takeshi Kitano |
| Date: | January 22 to Feburary 1 |
| Venue: | Turkey/ Istanbul (Levent Onat Kutlar Sinema Salonu, January 22 to 25), Ankara (January 31 to Feburary 1) |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, Consulate-General of Japan in Istanbul, Embassy of Japan in Turkey |
| Films Screened: | Kamikaze Girls by Tetsuya Nakashima, Summer Days With Coo by Keiichi Hara, Floating Cloud with Mikio Naruse |
| Date: | January 23 to 29 |
| Venue: | Czech/ Prague |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Czech, Japan Czech Friendship Association |
| Films Screened: | Billiken by Junji Sakamoto, Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2/Duo by Nobuhiro Suwa, The Twilight Samurai by Yoji Yamada, The Stars Converge by Kiyoshi Sasabe, Futaribiyori by Keiichi Nomura, Always-Sunset on Third Street- by Takashi Yamazaki |
| Date: | January 27 to March 18 |
| Venue: | United States/ Eckerd College (St. Petersberg), University of Georgia (Atlanta), University of Florida (Gainsville), Duke University (Durham) |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, New York |
| Films Screened: | Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Killer’s Age by Kihachi Okamoto, Postman Blues by SABU, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs by Mikio Naruse, Mind Game by Masaaki Yuasa |
| Date: | January 30 to Feburary 1 |
| Venue: | Uganda/ Kampara |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, Embassy of Japan in Uganda |
| Films Screened: | A Stranger of Mine by Kenji Uchida, Breath In, Breath Out by Tetsuo Shinohara, Madadayo (Not Yet) by Akira Kurosawa |
| Date: | January, 2009 |
| Venue: | India/ Calcutta |
| Presented by: | The Japan Foundation, Calcutta Consulate-General of Japan |
| Films Screened: | The Scent of Incense (Koge), Twenty-Four Eyes, Spring Dreams by Keisuke Kinoshita |
< Supported >
| Date: | September, 2008 to June, 2009 |
| Venue: | U.S.A., Canada/ Pacific Cinematheque (January 16 to Feburary 15), The Screen (January 16 to March 8), Madison Cinematheque (January 23 to March 6), Gene Siskel Film Centre (January 31 to Feburary 28) |
| Presented by: | Cinema theque Ontario |
| Films Screened: | Nagisa Oshima:Street of Love and Hope, Boy, Naked Youth, The Sun’s Burial, and other films |