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Film Festival Japan 2011

Film Festival Japan! 2011

Festival May 28 & 29 at the Metro Cinema

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Film Festival Japan celebrates Asian Heritage Month. Proceeds go to the Rotary's Japan Disaster Relief Fund 2011. film festival japan 2011 poster

Shows are at the Metro Theatre in the Citadel Theatre Complex

Saturday

Sunday

Tickets on sale ONE hour before showtimes at the Film Festival Japan box office (Metro Cinema)

Prices: $12 ($10 seniors & students)

Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (780) 432-4736 for further information 

2011 is the first year that JETAA, Northern Alberta and the Edmonton Japanese Community Association are able to bring the best of Japanese cinema to Edmonton.

Festival Saturday May 28 6:30 pm

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 Always: Sunset on Third Street

always1poster(Always 三丁目の夕日)
2005, 133 min. 35mm, color. Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Yamazaki Takashi. With Horikita Maki and Yoshioka Hidetaka.
Rated: General Audience

Always: Sunset on Third Street became a social phenomenon that triggered a national wave of nostalgia for Japan’s Showa Era (1926-1989). It won all but one award at the 2006 Japan Academy Prize, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

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Festival Sunday May 29 6:30 pm

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Always: Sunset on Third Street (Part 2)

always2poster(Always 続 三丁目の夕日)
2007, 146 min. 35mm, color, in Japanese with English Subtitles. Directed by Yamazaki Takashi. With Yoshioka Hidetaka and Koyuki.

Rated: General

Part 2 follows up on the events of the previous Always movie, and opens with Godzilla ripping apart Tokyo. This fantasy dream sequence belongs to writer Chagawa (Yoshioka), who is still working on kid's fiction while trying to get more serious assignments. Chagawa’s happiness is put to the test when the estranged father of Chagawa’s young ward, Junnosuke (Suga Kenta), vies for custody.

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Festival Saturday May 28 9:30 pm

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One Million Yen Girl

one-million-yen-girl(百万円と苦虫女)
2008, 121 min. 35 mm, color. Japanese with English subtitles. Written and directed by Tanada Yuki. With Aoi Yu and Moriyama Mirai.

Rated: 14A

From one of Japan's foremost emerging talents, Tanada Yuki, comes a female road movie that touches on the plight of stray animals in Japan and the problem of self-identity in a society that can be unforgiving of those who stray from social norms.

Tanada has earned a reputation for her sensitive portrayal of female protagonist, and popular Japan Academy award winner, Aoi Yu turns in an extraordinary performance of awkward Suzuko, sympathetically conveying the shame that causes her to withdraw from friends, family, co-workers and the transformation she undergoes.

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