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Cinema Japan: The Face of Jizo, Feb. 18 2017 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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Date: Saturday, February 18, 2017
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2:00p.m. – Gates Open: 1:30p.m
Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans but prior registration is required

Synopsis
In Hiroshima in 1948, memories of the atomic bombing three years earlier are still fresh in the minds of the people. Mitsue (Miyazawa Rie) works at a library where she meets Mr. Kinoshita (Asano Tadanobu), a shy, young man researching the disaster. They grow close, and Mr. Kinoshita eventually asks for her hand in marriage. However, Mitsue is troubled by her memories of the bombing when she was unable to save her father, Takezo (Harada Yoshio), and her closest friends as well as the many others who lost their lives. She doubts whether she deserves to have survived. Then the spirit of her father appears before her, and asserts that she should be happy. Watching over her budding romance with Mr. Kinoshita, Takezo cajoles and encourages Mitsue into opening her heart again.

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Cinema Japan: The Girl Who Leapt through Time, Jan. 28 2017 @ The Japan Information & Culture Centre

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Date: January 28, 2017
Venue: The Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2 pm
Entry: Free but registration required via email [jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp] or through a phone call [020-2898510]

Synopsis
Makoto Konno has two close friends who are both boys in her class. One of them is Kosuke Tsuda, her childhood friend and the other is Chiaki Mamiya. It’s far better for Makoto to play threesome ball game with them after school rather than to play with girls from her class. It isn’t like they are dating each other or going steady. Their relationship is very casual and easy going. This is a time to spend a compassionate moment reserved for them. Because soon, they must decide their course of future before they become senior in their high school.

But change comes to their relationship. Makoto gained the gift to slip back into time and retrace her steps because of certain turn of events. But once she learns the way to make use of the ability, she exerts it to satisfy her day-to-day desire and discontent of everyday life with no hesitation.

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Cinema Japan: Happy Flight, Feb. 27 2016 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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Happy Flight
The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “Happy Flight” which will be shown on Saturday, February 27, 2016.

Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans but prior registration is required.

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30 p.m.

Synopsis
The story mainly takes place on board the flight No.1980 bound for Honolulu from Japan. For Suzuki Kazuhiro, the co-pilot, this flight is the final test for his promotion to become captain. For Saito Etsuko, a newly recruited cabin attendant, this is her memorable debut on an international flight. However, the aircraft hits a bird soon after takeoff and the aircraft is forced to turn back to Japan due to technical failures. Then they are faced with yet another challenge – difficult landing conditions due to an approaching typhoon. They manage to overcome the challenge with the help of instructions issued by the operation control center on the ground. The young crew in aviation-related occupations grows in experience after this bittersweet but fulfilling flight.

We encourage you to come with a friend(s) for this movie.

To register for the movie screening, kindly provide us with your name, ID Number and contact details (via email [jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp] or through a phone call [020-2898510]).

Deadline for registration is Friday, February 26, 2016 at 4:00pm. If you plan to attend the movie with a friend(s), please provide us with your friend’s name when you register for yourself.

For more information on the movie, please refer the poster attached; call 020-2898510; email jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp or have a look at the Cinema Japan Page on our website (http://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/CinemaJapan.html)

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Cinema Japan: Dora-Heita, Nov. 28 2015 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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Dora Heita
The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “Dora-Heita” which will be shown on Saturday, November 28, 2015.

Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.

Date: Saturday, November 28, 2015
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30p.m.
Prior Registration Required | Entry Free

Synopsis
Dora-Heita features a street-wise magistrate battling a corrupt establishment. The new magistrate is known as Dora Heita, the ‘Alley-cat Magistrate’, on account of his debauched lifestyle. In his unique way which was contrary to the samurai code, he cleans up the town of the yakuza bosses and the courtiers who are in cahoots with them. He is a one of a kind hero people long for today.

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Cinema Japan: ALWAYS Sunset on Third Street (Part 3), Jun. 27 2015 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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Cinema Japan June 2015
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2015
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30pm
Entry: Registration Required | Entry Free

Synopsis: The third installment in a popular comedy-drama series following the lives of residents of a Tokyo neighborhood, this time taking place in 1964. Shot using the same 3D system as James Cameron’s Avatar, it vividly evokes the vitality of the times by interspersing nostalgic CG recreations of the Tokyo Olympics, the bullet train soon after it went into operation, and more.
As the benefits of Japan’s economic boom begin to be felt in Third Street in Sunset Town, novelist Chagawa (Yoshioka Hidetaka) finds himself upstaged by a younger writer and falls into a slump. Then he receives word from his family home in Nagano that his father is seriously ill…

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Cinema Japan: ALWAYS Sunset on Third Street (Part 2), Apr. 25 2015 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of part two of the movie “ALWAYS Sunset on Third Street” which will be shown on Saturday, 25th April 2015.

Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.

Date: Saturday, 25th April 2015
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30p.m.
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill
Registration Required | Entry Free

Screening: ALWAYS Sunset on Third Street (Part 2)

Synopsis: Spring of 1959. Chagawa (Yoshioka Hidetaka) still thinks of Hiromi (Koyuki) who took off without a word, while living with Junnosuke (Suga Kenta), a boy Hiromi left in his care. At Suzuki Auto, where Suzuki Norifumi (Tsutsumi Shinichi) and his wife Tomoe (Yakushimaru Hiroko) live, Mutsuko (Horikita Maki) is established enough to stand on her own two feet. Then the Suzukis gain a new family member – their relatives’ daughter whom they are going to look after. To Chagawa, Junnosuke’s biological father, Kawabuchi, comes to take back his son. In order to keep Junnosuke with him, the father imposes conditions upon him to give the boy a decent life. To secure a stable life and also to prove himself to Hiromi, Chagawa starts writing again to win the Akutagawa award, a once abandoned

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Cinema Japan: Always Sunset on Third Street (Part 1), Feb. 28 2015 @ JICC – Embassy of Japan

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The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of part one of the movie “Always Sunset on Third Street” which will be shown on Saturday, 28th February 2015.

Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.

Date: Saturday, 28th February 2015
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30pm
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill

Synopsis:
Set in a working class district of Tokyo in 1958, the year when Tokyo Tower was built. Norifumi (Tsutsumi Shinichi) runs a garage in Yuuhi-machi 3-chome. A woman named Mutsuko comes to the garage to work, but she is disappointed to find that it is such a small place. Norifumi’s son, Ippei, cheers her up by telling her that they are getting a TV at home soon. Meanwhile, the owner of the Sweet Shop opposite the garage, Chagawa (Yoshioka Hidetaka) drunkenly agrees to look after a boy named Junnosuke. Yuuhi-machi 3-chome welcomes the two new inhabitants. Everyone is in a festive mood with the coming of TV, Christmas and other happy news. The years roll by, then Junnosuke’s father turns up in town. There is already a strong bond between Chagawa and Junnosuke, but Chagawa, thinking about the boy’s future, sends him off with his father.

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CINEMA JAPAN: The Garden of Words, Jan. 31 2015 @ Japan Information & Culture Centre

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The Japan Information & Culture Centre invites you to the screening of the movie “The Garden of Words” which will be shown on Saturday, 31st January 2015
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Admission is free of charge and the movie screening is open to all film fans.

Screening: The Garden of Words
Date: Saturday, 31st January 2015
Time: 2:00p.m.
Gates Open: 1:30pm
Venue: Japan Information & Culture Centre, Embassy of Japan, Mara Road, Upper Hill

Synopsis
When Takao, a high school student dreaming of becoming a shoemaker, skips school one day in favor of sketching shoes in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters the mysterious Yukino. Older, but perhaps not much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. The two strike up an unusual relationship through chance meetings in the same garden on each rainy day. But the rainy season is coming to a close, leaving many things left unshared between them…

For more information on the movie, please refer the poster; call 020-2898510; Email jinfocul@nb.mofa.go.jp or have a look at the Cinema Japan Page on http://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/JICC/JICC_e/CinemaJapan.html