DOCUMENTARY DREAM SHOW — YAMAGATA in Tokyo 2016

YIDFF Showcases Best of Fest in Tokyo

Venue(s): Shinjuku K's cinema and Josai International University
September 17 to October 7, 2016 and September 22 and 23
Language: Japanese with English subtitles or no dialogue
Official website: www.cinematrix.jp/dds2016/
Theater website: www.ks-cinema.com/
Tariff: ¥1,500
Advance tickets: ¥1,300
Talk event: Many — visit the official site for details

Title: ドキュメンタリードリームショー山形inTokyo (DOCUMENTARY DREAM SHOW: YAMATAGA IN TOKYO 2016)
Director: Shin Sasakubo, Sho Ikeda, Kaori Oda, Katsuya Okuma, Takashi Makino

The industry-favorite Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, the first and still largest Asian festival devoted to documentary work, runs every other year in the gorgeous mountain town of Yamagata. On the off-years, YIDFF treats Tokyo audiences to some of the highlights of the previous year’s festival. And by “some,” we mean “oodles.”

Close to 60 titles will be screened during this year’s Dream Show run from September 17 – October 7 — almost all of them with English subtitles, including many from Asia and Japan — and there will be the added attraction of public discussions on cinema with critics Chris Fujiwara, Takashi Kitakoji, Takefumi Tsutsui and Teng Magansakan at separate events hosted by Josai International University.

While you should check the full lineup and plan to attend loads of screenings, you’re reading this because of your interest in Japanese cinema, so let’s focus on the Japan-related titles that appear in several of the sections besides the Japan Program, including New Asian Currents and the International Competition.

Shin Sasakubo explores memories of the dynamiting of Chichibu’s Mt. Buko, which is being destroyed by corporate greed, in his Pyramid: Kaleidoscope Memories of Destruction. Sho Ikeda’s Voyage is a visual record of the popular Bakurocho Band’s live tour in New York City.

Kaori Oda, currently studying with Béla Tarr, is represented by her gorgeously visual Aragane, filmed deep in a Bosnian coal mine.

The India-Japan coproduction Each Story, by Katsuya Okuma, was filmed in the northern Indian region of Ladakh, and focuses on two boys who are assigned to study The Epic of King Gesar, a local legend, for their summer homework. Also by Okuma is Gift, a 2011 Yamagata film in which he explored the life of a homeless man in Okinawa. 2015 YIDFF juror Takashi Makino’s dialogue-free short films still in cosmos and Generator will also be shown.

Dream Show also revives Ko Sakai and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s popular Storytellers, which won awards at the festival’s 2013 edition. The documentary highlights the oral traditions in the Tohoku region, focusing on how locals have passed down their folktales for generations. The film will be showing for free at Josai International University on September 22, followed by a discussion on “Aesthetics and Social Criticism in East and Southeast Asian Cinema,” moderated by critic Chris Fujiwara. The following evening, Fujiwara will appear on a panel with Takashi Kitakoji, Takefumi Tsutsui and Teng Magansakan to address the topic “Film and Criticism.”

International Competition

**Generator**, dir. Takashi Makino, Japan/2011/DCP/19 min, no dialolue

**still in cosmos**, dir. Takashi Makino, Japan/2009/DCP/17 min, no dialolue

New Asian Currents

**ARAGANE（鉱）**, dir. Kaori Oda, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, JAPAN / 2015 / 68 min, Japanese with English subs

Each_Story — Each Story（ラダック、それぞれの物語）, dir. Katsuya Okuma, INDIA, JAPAN / 2014 / 40 min, Japanese with English subs

***Gift（ギフト）***, dir. Katsuya Okuma , JAPAN 2011 40 MINS, Japanese with English subs

Japan Program

**PYRAMID（破壊の記憶の走馬灯）,** Kaleidoscope Memories of Destruction, dir. Shin Sasakubo, JAPAN / 2015 / Japanese / Color, B&W / Blu-ray / 50 min, Japanese with English subs

voyage — **Voyage**, dir. Sho Ikeda, JAPAN / 2015 / Japanese / Color / Blu-ray / 56 min, Japanese with English subs

Shinjuku K's cinema

Josai International University Kioicho #3 building
9/22/2016

**Storytellers（うたうひと）**, dir. Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke, JAPAN/2013/120 mins, Japanese with English subs

Josai International University Kioicho #3 building

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