Japanese Film Days to be screened in Bucharest

Newsroom 24/02/2014 | 13:41

Japanese Embassy, Japan Foundation and the National Film Archive present between February 25-28 the Japanese Film Days, screening four recent productions of Japanese cinema: two featured-length movies, a documentary and an animation movie. The screening is taking place at Cinemateca Romana, Jean Georgescu room (address 2 Eforie Street), and the entry is free of charge.

Program:

February 25, 19.00

Three for the Road / Yajikita doutyu Teresuko

Japan/2007/108min/ English subtitled

Director: Hirayama Hideyuki

With: Nakamura Kanzaburo, Emoto Akira, Koizumi Kyoko

Synopsis: YAJI lives alone in a ramshackle house, just making a living by sculpting fancy pastries. He is in love with Okino, a popular local courtesan, but she remains frustratingly beyond his reach. Okino decides to lie to Yaji, pleading “Help me run away to see my dying father one last time.” Yaji rises to the occasion and proclaims he will engineer her escape from the pleasure quarters and take her to her native village. Just then, a man appears outside the window. He is KITA, Yaji’s childhood friend. A second-rate actor, Kita has just totally screwed up an important part on stage and has lost his will to live. Kita decides Yaji and Okino’s impending journey is the perfect way out of his predicament and pesters Yaji to let him join them…

 

February 26, 19.00

BRAVE STORY / Bureibu Sutori

Animation movie

Japan/2006/111min/English subtitled

Director: Chigira Koichi

Synopsis: When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the chance. But on his quest to find the Tower of Fortune and be granted any wish, he must conjure up all his bravery to battle a world of demons, his own friends and ultimately himself.

 

February 27, 19.00
Drops of Heaven / Ten no shizuku

Documentary film

Japan/2012/113 min/ English subtitled

Director: Atsunori Kawamura

Synopsis: Documentary delving into the origin of the soup that 88 years old culinary artist Yoshiko Tatsumi keeps on making for her life. Beyond the vapors of Yoshiko Tatsumi’s Soup of Life, you will reminiscence the forgotten days of people nurturing love.

 

February 28, 19.00

Always-Sunset on Third Street-3 / Always-Sanchome no yuhi 64

Japan/2012/142min/ English subtitled

Director: Yamazaki Takashi

With: Yoshioka Hidetaka, Tsutsumi Shinichi, Koyuki, Kenta Suga, Maki Horikita

Synopsis: Tokyo in 1964. The Olympics are set to take place in Tokyo and the country has experienced a period of rapid economic growth. The inhabitants of Third Street live amidst all the change in their usual optimistic ways. Novelist Ryunosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka) is now married to Hiromi (Koyuki) and they live with Junnosuke (Kenta Suga) who is now in high school. Auto mechanic Norifumi Suzuki (Shinichi Tsutsumi) stills run his mechanic shop across the street with his wife Tomoe (Hiroko Yakushimaru), son Ippei (Kazuki Koshimizu) and employee Mutsuko (Maki Horikita). Their shop has experienced growth over the years. A turning point then occurs for the residents on Third Street …

Oana Vasiliu

 

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