Eiga Sai 2011: The Japanese Film Festival

[clinically.dead]

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I'm looking forward to watching Departures (since it won an Academy Award and all). Oh wait, it's not in the list. Darn.

[dcheyenne]

Wala ma'y nausab sa Japan Foundation, dcheyenne. Bantay lang 'sab unya sa ilahang Japan Foundation
News and Events section, Ma'am.

thanks TS.

[clinically.dead]

Tomorrow at 7pm: THE CHEF OF SOUTH POLAR

Synopsis:

A heart-warming comedy based on the famous essay written by a chef who went to the South Pole in 1997. The films depicts with humor the hilarious and touching story about a meal and the South Pole experienced by an 8 men research team dispatched at Dome Fuji Station in Antarctica. The station is 1,000km away from the Antarctic coast, wherein neither animals nor viruses to survive.

Mr. Nishimura is a chef of the team. He misses his family in Japan, but he always tries to make a delicious meal every day to make the research team members happy. But, without being able to procure fresh supplies, maintaining variety in the daily menu is a Herculean task. The team is comprised of a Captain who is addicted much to ramen, the Doctor, Moto-san who he himself tries to train to participate in a triathlon event when he returns back to Japan, and the other young support members wherein Nishimura had to push himself to a great length to keep the table filled with delectable meals. Several unique characters have to live together for one and a half years. How would life be in the South Pole?

[vjay01]

unsay title aning anime?

[code_blue]

Oh no! I missed two great films already, must watch tonight! Grrrr!

Thanks TS for the infos...

[clinically.dead]

unsay title aning anime?

Summer Days with Coo. It will be played this Saturday at 4:30 PM.

Tonight at 7 PM: Yunagi City, Sakura Country

Synopsis:

The film is based on a manga comic by Fumiyo Kono, portraying the tragedy that the atomic bomb carries beyond generations depicting the viewpoint of two women in two-frame stories, one from the past and the other from the present day.

Thirteen years after the bombing incident in Hiroshima. Hirano Minami feels happiness when her colleague, Uchikoshi expresses his love for her. However, the incident has brought her sickness resulting from her exposure to atomic bomb and the pain of that emotional scar also returns.

Nanami, the leading female character in the contemporary part of the film, is the daughter of Minami’s brother, Asahi, who had evacuated to Ibaraki Prefecture when Hiroshima was bombed. Nanami, an ordinary 28-year-old, follows her father who travels to Hiroshima secretly had no idea about her dad’s past or the existence of her late aunts. Through her father’s conduct, she finds out what the family has been carrying as well as her aunt Minami’s haunting experience. This prompts Nanami to reflect on the ensuing devastation experienced by the Hiroshima people and their descendants in contemporary time and the value of peace.

[vjay01]

ah...thanks...

[lonely_planet]

Boo! I wanted to watch One Million Yen Girl last night but when I got there around 630, they said they had already given out priority numbers (what time they handed out the numbers, I do not know). Wondering if anyone knows where I can get a copy of the movie?

[clinically.dead]

Last day today!

Your Friend 1:30 PM
Summer Days with Coo 4:30 PM
Feel the Wind 7:30 PM

Wondering if anyone knows where I can get a copy of the movie?

Uhh... google?