| Start: | Jul 5, '12 |
| End: | Jul 15, '12 |
| Location: | Shang Cineplex |
Presented by theJapan Foundation, Manila, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, UP Film Institute, Film Development Council of the Philippines, ClickTheCity.com and NET 25 TV.
An invitational screening of the film ‘Villain’ on July 5 at Shang Cineplex Cinema 2, EDSA, Mandaluyong City is the kick-off event for the festivity.
Villain is a gritty social critique drama directed by Lee Sang-il, director of the multi-award film—Hula Girls.
Eri Fukatsu who won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2010 and Japan Academy Prize 2011 for her role (Mitsuyo), takes on challenging and heated love scenes, playing a woman on the run with a murderer. Satoshi Tsumabuki (Yuichi) runs away after killing a woman (Yoshino) he met on a dating website. While the families of the victim and the assailant are left in agony, Mitsuyo becomes increasingly entangled in her relationship with Yuichi.
The film was based on the novel "Akunin" by Shuichi Yoshida published in April 2007.
The film has also enjoyed successful runs at various international film festivals and emerged as one of the most acclaimed films from Japan in 2010, earning 15 nominations from the Japan Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture, Director and a variety of acting affirmations.
Completing this year’s roster of exciting films to be featured are thePEAK –The Rescuers,Railways,Happy Flight; Tomorrow’s Joe, In His Chart; Colorful, Abacus And Sword, Permanent Nobara, and Ninja Kids.
All films will be shown in 35mm format with English subtitles.
Screening venues are at:
the Shang Cineplex Cinema 4 (July 5 to 15),
Gaisano South Citimall, Davao City (July 20 to 22),
Ayala Center Cinema 4, Cebu City (August 7 to 12)
and UP Film Institute, Quezon City (August 15 to 21).
For detailed screening schedules and inquiries, please access the Japan Foundation, Manila website: www.jfmo.org.ph or call the JFM telephone numbers (+632) 811-6155 to 58.
- from the Japan Foundation Manila Website
Hmmm...sounds like an interesting movie.
ReplyDeletelumabas yung liking mo for trains...hahaha!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Buti na lang nag-post ka!
ReplyDeletehay naku Fatimwah! parang I remember the only time we attended a film festival is yung sabay pala tayo sa Greenbelt non...hahaha...
ReplyDeletespeaking of which, I really would enjoy sana looking at yung sa Spanish film festival etc. pero wala naman yata dito lately malapit sa akin...
paging Chito...manonood ka ba this weekend sa Shang?
ReplyDeleteVillain
ReplyDelete2010 |139 min | Color | 35mm
Director: LEE Sang-il
Producer: Tomoyo NIHIRA, Genki KAWAMURA
Cast: Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Eri FUKATSU, Masaki OKADA
A gritty social critique, this drama is directed by Lee Sang-il, director of the multi-award winning Hula
Girls. Eri Fukatsu, who won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her role,
takes on challenging and heated love scenes, playing a woman (Mitsuyo) on the run with a murderer.
Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) runs away after killing a woman (Hikari Mitsushima) he met on a dating
website. He then meets Mitsuyo, a sales clerk. While the families of the victim and the assailant are left
in agony, Mitsuyo becomes increasingly entangled in her relationship with Yuichi.
PEAK –The Rescuers
ReplyDelete2011 |125min | Color | 35mm
Director: Osamu KATAYAMA
Producer: Manabu ENDO, Kouji MAEDA
Cast: Shun OGURI, Masami NAGASAWA, Kuranosuke SASAKI
Based on the popular comics by Shinichi Ishizuka, this drama spotlight is on mountain rescue
operations. Oguri was a big fan of the original story, and he attempts ice wall climbing and rappelling
in snow-covered mountains. His genuine performance gets across the severity and wonder of the
mountains. Sanpo (Oguri), who volunteers as a mountain rescuer in the Northern Alps, has climbed the
world’s famous peaks. His flaw is that he can be too easygoing, but, novice Kumi (Masami Nagasawa)
from the Nagano Prefecture mountain rescue squad observes the way he works and learns that he is
someone she can count on.
Railways
ReplyDelete2010 |130 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Yoshinari NISHIKORI
Executive Producer: Shuji ABE
Cast: Kiichi NAKAI, Reiko TAKASHIMA, Yuika MOTOKARIYA
Known for its previous production, ALWAYS-Sunset on Third Street- (Always San-chome no Yuhi) and
the sequel, ROBOT Communications presents another heartwarming tale on the turning point of an
elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Hajime (Kiichi Nakai)
is next in line as head of a prominent electronics company. He works hard and barely has time for
his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane was ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Griefstricken,
Hajime returns home—where memories of his childhood came back. He had always wanted
to be a train conductor and drive the local “bataden” Ichibata Electric Railway.
Happy Flight
ReplyDelete2008 |103 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Shinobu YAGUCHI
Producer: Daisuke SEKIGUCHI, Yoshino SASAKI, Shintaro HORIKAWA
Cast: Seiichi TANABE, Saburo TOKITO, Haruka AYASE
A hit maker Shinobu Yaguchi of Waterboys and Swing Girls unfolds his favorite entertaining group
drama in this latest movie—Happy Flight which cannot be bundled in a usual category of aviation
movies characterized as panic movies.
The story deals with flight No.1980 bound for Honolulu from Japan. For Kazuhiro Suzuki (Seiichi
Tanabe), the co-pilot, this is the final test to become a captain. For Etsuko Saito (Haruka Ayase), a
newly recruited cabin attendant, it is a memorable debut on an international flight. However, the
aircraft hits a bird after takeoff and is forced to turn back. Faced with yet another challenge - difficult
landing conditions due to an approaching typhoon; finally, they managed to overcome with the help
of the operation control center. The young crew in aviation-related occupations grew in experience
after this bittersweet but fulfilling flight.
Tomorrow’s Joe
ReplyDelete2011 / 132 min / Color | 35mm
Director: Fumihiko SORI
Executive Producer: Kazuya HAMANA
Cast: Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Yusuke ISEYA, Karina SHIRAKI, Teruyuki KAGAWA
A live-action adaptation of Takamori Asao and Chiba Tetsuya’s eponymous comic, regarded as a
brilliant achievement in Japanese manga history. Two boxing rivals engage in a fierce battle that
will determine of their fate. The director is Fumihiko Sori, who helmed the sports manga adaptation
Ping Pong. In the late 1960s, a slum-dwelling delinquent named Joe Yabuki (Tomohisa Yamashita) is
scouted by former boxer Danpei Tange (Teruyuki Kagawa) for his exceptional pugilistic ability, but
he gets into trouble and is sent to a juvenile reformatory where he meets professional fighter Toru
Rikiishi (Yusuke Iseya).
Ashita no Joe (あしたのジョー Ashita no Jō) is a critically acclaimed boxing manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba in 1968 that was later adapted into an anime series and movie.
It was adapted into a live-action film starring popular actor/singer Tomohisa Yamashita as Yabuki Joe and Yūsuke Iseya as Rikishi. The movie premiered in Japan on February 11, 2011.
In His Chart
ReplyDelete2011 | 128 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA
Producer: Kenzo ABE, Masaya SHIBUSAWA, Takahiro KAWADA
Cast: Sho SAKURAI, Aoi MIYAZAKI, Jun KANAME
Medical drama based on the debut novel by practicing physician Sosuke Natsukawa. It is a penetrating
look at healthcare in Japan’s provinces through the personal growth of an honest young doctor. It is
acclaimed as the film soundtrack debut for the blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii. Ichito (Sho Sakurai) is an
internist at a small hospital in Shinshu that needs physicians, and handles his heavy workload with
support from his photographer wife Haruna (Aoi Miyazaki). One day he encounters Azumi (Mariko
Kaga), who has terminal cancer, and he starts questioning the very existence of medicine.
Colorful
ReplyDelete2010 | 126 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Keiichi HARA
Animation Director: Masahiro SATO
Voice: Kazato TOMIZAWA, Aoi MIYAZAKI, Akina MINAMI
Directed by Keiichi Hara, highly regarded for Crayon Shin-chan Arashi o Yobu Moretsu Otona Teikoku
no Gyakushu. His realistic style as seen in Summer Days with Coo (Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi) is
taken one step further, and creates a unique world where the backdrop is so real you would think it
might have been shot live. Someone has just died, but his soul is put into the body of Makoto Kobayashi
(voice: Kazato Tomizawa), a boy in junior high school who has just committed suicide. Regaining life,
the soul inhabits the boy’s body and soon finds the true reason behind his suicide.
It won the award for Excellent Animation of the Year at the 34th Japan Academy Prize and is nominated for Animation of the Year.
It also won the Animation Film Award at the 65th Mainichi Film Awards.
Internationally, it received the Audience Award and Special Distinction prize at the 2011 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
[parang gusto ko to ah]
Abacus And Sword
ReplyDelete2010 | 129 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Yoshimitsu MORITA
Producer: Masayuki MOTOMOCHI
Cast: Masato SAKAI, Yukie NAKAMA, Keiko MATSUZAKA
A film adaptation of the book by Michifumi Isoda, in which he paints a picture of life in the final
days of the Tokugawa shogunate, based on his painstaking analysis of the household accounts left
behind by a low ranking samurai. Director Yoshimitsu Morita, portrays the inner workings of a samurai
household fighting to tighten finances. The Inoyama family has been in the service of Kaga clan as
expert accountants and reckoners. The 8th head of the Inoyama family, Naoyuki (Masato Sakai), is
so phenomenally gifted in numbers that he was called “abacus maniac.” To cope with the increasing
expenses that come with trying to move up, he works together with his wife Koma (Yukie Nakama)
and family to do all they can to economize.
I also think I'd like to queue up for this film, not just because I like the setting (shogunate era), but because of the thrifty hero - I do a lot of creative ways of penny-pinching too :-)
Permanent Nobara
ReplyDelete2010 | 126 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Daihachi YOSHIDA
Producer: Sei MATSUMOTO, Yuji ISHIDA,
Yutaka SUZUKI, Yosuke NAKAMURA, Shigeo FUJITA
Cast: Miho KANNO, Yosuke EGUCHI, Eiko KOIKE
This is based on popular manga artist Rieko Saibara’s manga series. As in his FUNUKE Show Some Love,
You Losers! (Funukedomo, Kanashimi no Ai wo Misero), director Daihachi Yoshida’s films have all sorts
of lovable, quirky characters. In this love story for grown-ups, woman’s pursuit for love never dies and
Yoshida portrays such feminine strength and compassion with humor. Naoko (Miho Kanno) returns
home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako (Mari Natsuki) runs the only beauty parlor
in town—meeting place for lamenting bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst
to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima (Yosuke Eguchi).
Ninja Kids
ReplyDelete2011 | 100 min | Color | 35mm
Director: Takashi MIIKE
Cast: Seishiro KATO, Roi HAYASHI, Futa KIMURA
A live-action adaptation of Soubei Amako’s cute ninja action manga. A popular animated
television series, it presents the comical slapstick antics of a group of boys training to be
elite ninjas. Director Takashi Miike works in a diverse array of genres, from violent works
to family films. Rantaro (Seishiro Kato), a first grader at Ninja Academy, spends his days
with his fellow students Shinbee (Futa Kimura) and Kirimaru (Roi Hayashi) making all sorts
of blunders. One day, an assassin turns up at the home of fourth grader Takamaru (Takuya
Mizoguchi).
Whee!
ReplyDeleteparang type ko ang
JULY 9 (Monday)
PEAK – The Rescuers 2:00 PM
Railways 4:30 PM
Villain 7:00 PM
coz of Villain...its actually also shown tonight but by invitation only *sigh*
Schedule:
ReplyDeleteJULY 5 (Thursday)
Opening Night by Invitation at Cinema 2
Villain 7:00 PM
JULY 6 (Friday)
Railways 2:00 PM
Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM
PEAK – The Rescuers 7:00 PM
JULY 7 (Saturday)
Ninja Kids 2:00 PM
Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM
Happy Flight 7:00 PM
JULY 8 (Sunday)
Colorful 2:00 PM
In His Chart 4:30 PM
Abacus and Sword 7:00 PM
JULY 9 (Monday)
PEAK – The Rescuers 2:00 PM
Railways 4:30 PM
Villain 7:00 PM
JULY 10 (Tuesday)
Happy Flight 2:00 PM
Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM
Colorful 7:00 PM
JULY 11 (Wednesday)
Ninja Kids 2:00 PM
Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM
In His Chart 7:00 PM
JULY 12 (Thursday)
Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM
Railways 4:30 PM
Villain 7:00 PM
JULY 13 (Friday)
Tomorrow’s Joe 2:00 PM
Happy Flight 4:30 PM
PEAK – The Rescuers 7:00 PM
JULY 14 (Saturday)
Permanent Nobara 2:00 PM
Ninja Kids 4:30 PM
In His Chart 7:00 PM
JULY 15 (Sunday)
Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM
Colorful 4:30 PM
Villain 7:00 PM
Remember, for these films queue early or else the seats are all taken!
tara Tochie :-)
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