►Arabic
Japanese Cinema Program
Schedule 2019
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November
Thursday, Nov. 14
From 6 P.M.
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Fireworks from the Heart
Five years ago, the Sudo family moved to Katakai, Niigata
Prefecture for the recuperation of their daughter Hana who
was suffering from some health issues.The small town of
Katakai boasts some of the biggest fireworks displays in the
world. Hana is released from the hospital on the day of the
annual Katakai fireworks festival and learns that her older
brother, Taro has become a social recluse. At the festival
later that evening, Hana sees the town’s Young Adult Group
enthusiastically planning for the following year when they
would turn twenty and sponsor their own fireworks. Hana
resolves to get her brother more involved in the community
and forces him out of seclusion. She drags the reluctant
Taro to the Youth Group Office. Later, Hana has a relapse
and is hospitalized, but this time, her condition
deteriorates and she passes away. Following Hana’s tragic
death, Taro quits the Youth Group and takes on more
part-time work with the intention of independently
sponsoring his own fireworks display for Hana. He asks the
head of the fireworks factory to help him create a special
creation in memory of his sister.
Directed by Kunimoto Masahiro / Production Year:
2010 / Running Time: 119 min
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October
Thursday, Oct. 17
From 6 P.M.
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After the Flowers
Spring in the Unasaka region. The area within the second
enclosure of the castle is full of young girls delighting in
the cherry blossoms. As she is enthralled by the cherry
blossoms, Ito is suddenly greeted by a young samurai, Eguchi
Magoshiro. Trained
in swordsmanship by her father, Ito
is said to have successively defeated the best students at
the dojo Sonshiro attends and he has come to challenge her
to a duel someday. At some point, Ito had grown fond of
Sonshiro as a polite as well as skilled swordsman, but Ito’s
father has chosen a fiance for her, Saisuke. Meanwhile,
engagement talks move forward for Sonshiro also; the
individual is Kayo, Ito’s uninhibited senior who is known
have had experience with men. Yet, the engagement will
elevate the status of Sonshiro’s family and if this makes
him happy, then that is Ito’s hope; however, she catches
Kayo together with a samurai with whom she is rumored of
having an affair, Fujii Kageyu. Furthermore, a year later,
Ito’s hope is mercilessly betrayed…
Directed by Kenji Nakanishi / Production Year: 2009 /
Running Time: 107 min
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September
Thursday, Sept. 19
From 6 P.M.
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Hankyu Railway - A 15-minute Miracle
An ordinary train commute. A familiar landscape.
Whether riding to work, to school, to shop, or to meet
someone special…
the train is a medium for people’s lives and stories.
When you look up from the words on the page, when you put
away your cell phone or take off your headphones, a little
sliver of magic – a life-changing “encounter” -- may be
waiting for you.
A slight shift in your viewpoint can make your ordinary,
everyday life sparkle.
Directed by Yoshishige Miyake / Production Year: 2011 /
Running Time: 119min
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August
Thursday, August 8
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Youth and School Club Activities"
Swing Girls
At a rural girl's high
school in northern Japan, remedial math classes are being
held during the summer break. Looking for a way out, Tomoko
and two of her classmates volunteer to deliver lunches left
behind by the school's brass band on the way to support the
baseball team at a crucial game. However, when the band
subsequently suffers a bout of food poisoning, Tomoko and
her companions seize the chance to ditch summer school as
replacement musicians. Despite a severe lack of talent, they
gradually succumb to the infectious rhythms of big band jazz
and start to take the music seriously. Just as they are
about to perform in public for the first time, the band
members they replaced return and the ring-ins are shunted to
the sidelines. However, this fails to dampen the girls'
newfound spirit, and they take up part-time jobs and
practice in the streets to achieve their dream of playing at
the school's music festival.
Directed by Shinobu
Yaguchi / 2004 / 105min.
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July
Thursday, July 25
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Youth and School Club Activities"
Water Boys
It’s springtime in Japan and the Tadano High
School swim team is barely keeping afloat. When a pretty new coach turns up with the
nutty idea of creating a top synchronized swimming team of
her own, she has just a few problems to overcome. First,
she's teaching at an all-boys school; second, the 5 boys who
have committed to the team are all hopelessly bad swimmers;
third, she suddenly discovers she’s 8 months pregnant and
due for maternity leave.
Inspired by their darling coach’s dream, the
boys bumble through the spring and summer, preparing a
routine for Tadano High’s festival.
Will the Waterboys hard work be wasted, or
can they paddle their way to the success and recognition
they've worked so hard to win?
Directed by Shinobu
Yaguchi / Production Year: 2001 / Running Time: 91min
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June
Thursday, June 20
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Continue what you believe in!"
The Wife of
Gegege
A love story
depicting the younger days of Mizuki Shigeru, author of
"Gegege no Kitaro," the well-known comic on 'yokai'
(supernatural beings), and his wife Mura Nunoe, who
supported him through the years. Like the hit TV drama
version, the film is based on Nunoe's autobiography, but it
focuses mainly on their days as newlyweds when they lived
through extreme poverty, and provides a heart-warming
account of their struggles as they start a life together. In
Shimane prefecture, 1961, 29 year-old Nunoe and Shigeru, a
manga artist who lost his left arm in the war, get married,
just five days after being introduced at a matchmaking
meeting. They move to Tokyo and endure a life of abysmal
poverty.
Director: Takuji Suzuki / Production: 2010 / Duration:
119
minutes
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May
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No Film Show During Ramadan. |
April
Tuesday, April 9
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Continue what you believe in!"
The Village
Album
In the village of Hanatani, Tokushima, there
are plans for a dam to be built. When the dam is built, the
village of Hanatani will be changed forever. The village
asks Takahashi Ken’ichi, the village photographer, to make a
collection of a photos of all the families in the village.
They decide to do this to preserve the memory of the
beautiful village.
Ken’ichi’s son, Takashi is an assistant photographer in
Tokyo. His father asks him to come back to help him, but
they don’t get along with each other...
Director: Mihara Mitsuhiro / Production: 2004 / Duration:
111
minutes
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March
Tuesday, March 19
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Anime Movie"
Crayon Shin Chan: The Battle of the Warring States
Shinichi is often blamed by others for his
actions. He time travels by chance to the sixteenth century,
the era of warring states, and saves the life of a samurai.
He discovers that he loves the princess "Ran", who is the
daughter of his master. But her beauty becomes popular among
neighboring areas, and the Lord "Takatora" proposes to marry
her. But the princess refuses and a war breaks out between
the two areas.
Director: Keiichi Hara / Production: 2002 / Duration: 95
minutes
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February
Tuesday, February 12
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Anime Movie"
Pop
In Q
Third year middle-schooler, Isumi finds a "fragment of time"
at the ocean. Upon picking it up, she sees an unknown world
stretching out before her and encounters a strange life-form
calling itself a Pokon. The Pokon tells her the world's time
is in danger of breaking down, and so with four other girls,
attempts to circumvent the crisis.
Director: Miyahara Naoki / Production: 2016 / Duration: 95
minutes
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January
Thursday, January 17
From 6 P.M.
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Special
Feature "Studio Ghibli Anime Movie"
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
During a forbidden excursion to see the surface world, a
goldfish princess encounters a human boy named Sosuke, who
gives her the name Ponyo. Ponyo longs to become human, and
as her friendship with Sosuke grows, she becomes more
humanlike. Ponyo's father Fujimoto brings her back to their
ocean kingdom, but so strong is Ponyo's wish to live on the
surface that she breaks free, and in the process, spills a
collection of magical elixirs that endanger Sosuke's
village. A story of love, responsibility, nature and life.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki / Production: 2008 / Duration: 103
minutes
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Feature films are preceded by
documentary films, and subtitled in
Arabic. Free Admission.
Venue: Information and Culture Center,
Embassy of Japan
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inform us your attendance with your name, occupation,
organization name and phone number & address.
E-mail:
culture@ca.mofa.go.jp
/ Tel: 02-25285903
*Program might change without advance
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