Cycle
From 03.10. To 07.10.2016.
Japanese Films Week
Program of Japanese Films
This autumn’s program of Japanese films is focused on a decentered kitchen (let us remember Roland Barthes’ notes on decentered food in Empire of Signs) and return to hometown as a symptom of quest for lost dreams of nostalgia.
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Silver Spoon
(Gin no saji, Japan, 2014)
Directed by: Keisuke Yoshida
PHOTOGRAPHY: Takayuki Shida
Synopsis:
There is an agricultural school on the island Hokkaido that is mostly attended by children from rural areas who want to continue their family business. Yugo is a boy who did not manage to enroll to a school of his choice and is now attending and living at the agricultural school, so he would not have to stay with his family. Since he grew up in the city he has no intention of working in agriculture and needs time to adapt to the new environment. The story gets complicated when he starts to envy...
color, digital, 111 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 03.10.2016 AT 19:30
Sea's Lid
(Umi no futa, Japan, 2015)
Directed by: Keisuke Toyoshima
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yoshihisa Toda
Synopsis:
Mari decides to leave Kyoto where she works as a set designer and returns to her hometown on the coast. She dreams of opening a shop where she will sell her favorite sweets from childhood: ice cubes made of syrup called kakigōri. A teenager Hajime helps her with the preparation of ingredients and with the decoration of the shop before the grand opening.
color, digital, 84 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 04.10.2016 AT 19:00
A Drop of the Grapevine
(Budô no namida, Japan, 2014)
Directed by: Yukiko Mishima
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yuta Tsukinaga
Synopsis:
Ao dreamed of a music career in Europe, but had to return to Hokkaido due to hearing problems. His younger brother Roku grows wheat at the family farm that the brothers inherited from their father. Surrounded by the beautiful nature, Ao begins to grow grapes and wants to have an exquisite sort of pinot noir. Suddenly there appears the charming and mysterious Erika at a neighboring field…
color, digital, 117 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 05.10.2016 AT 19:00
Beyond the Crimson Sky
(Akanezora, Japan, 2007)
Directed by: Masaki Hamamoto
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tatsuo Suzuki
Synopsis:
This is a historical drama about a family that produces tofu. Young Eikichi mastered the art of making tofu in Kyo and arrives to Edo. There he opens a shop and marries a good-natured local girl Ofumi. In time their family grows bigger and his business more successful. Nevertheless, his oldest son seems disinterested in continuing the family business. When he develops a gambling problem, everything that Eikichi and Ofumi created is suddenly in grave danger. The solution to this situation seems t...
color, 120 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 06.10.2016 AT 19:00
Karaage USA
(Japan, 2014)
Directed by: Naoki Segi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yuji Imai
Synopsis:
Karaage is a name for specific Japanese food deep-fried in oil. Also popular are the karaage fast food restaurants that first appeared in the town Usa in Oita prefecture in Japan. This is the hometown of Ayane, one of the daughters of an owner of such popular restaurant. She has never been interested in the family business and left home five years ago. Suddenly she comes back to her hometown together with a girl named Shirley, her ex-husband’s daughter.