Free Entrance
Cape Town:
V&A Mall, Cinema Nouveau Screened by Jameson
26 January – 1 February 2007
Polokwane:
Savannah Mall, Ster-Kinekor Junction
9 February – 11 February 2007
Johannesburg:
Rosebank Mall, Cinema Nouveau Screened by Jameson
23 February –1 March 2007
All the films are in Japanese with English subtitles. Free tickets will be available at the box office on the day of the screening.
This year’s selection includes the following six films. Please note, "Sawada and "A Last Note" will not be filmed on Polokwane
For further information please contact the Cultural and Information Section of the Embassy of Japan.
WaterboysShinobu Yaguchi, 2001 |
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 A comedy about a boys’ synchronized swimming team. Hopelessly bad swimmers, they prepare a routine for the school festival and face the ridicule of their fellow students. Their only support coming from a group of local drag queens and the crazy owner of an aquarium.On the eve of the festival, disaster strikes and they struggle to gain the recognition they deserve. |
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PulseKiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001 |
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BillikenJunji Sakamoto, 1996 |
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Out of this WorldJunji Sakamoto, 2004 |
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It tells the story of a group of young Japanese musicians who find the musical chance of a lifetime playing jazz at American military clubs during the American Occupation of the late 1940’s. |
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Sawada*Sho Igarashi, 1997 |
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* Will not be screened in Polokwane |
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A Last Note*Kaneto Shindo, 2004 |
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Compounding her sorrow, an old friend from the theatre, Tomie, and her husband, Tohachiro, come for a visit. Tomie has grown senile and Tohachiro no longer has the resources to support them. He informs Yoko that, rather than face an uncertain future, the couple plans to kill themselves and that this visit is a final goodbye. * Will not be screened in Polokwane |
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The original Japanese horror tells of strange events that occur after a young man commits suicide. On the wall of his apartment is a black patch, as if there was a short circuit. Searching his apartment, his friends find a computer disk that seems to have a strange virus. Is there a link between the disk and his suicide?
The story centers on the finding of the wooden statue of Billiken, a small cute god with a pointy-head and a mischievous grin, in the Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka.
Out of this World is set against the backdrop of the chaos and hope of the immediate postwar period.
Sawada tells of the life of Japanese UPI photographer Kyoichi Sawada who won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph entitled ‘Flee to Safety’. He was killed in Cambodia in 1970, aged 34, alongside another photographer.
After the death of her husband, Yoko Morimoto travels to her summer home in the mountains of central Japan. Upon arrival, she receives the sad news that her gardener has committed suicide.
