FOCUS ON ASIA FUKUOKA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018
Showcasing Recent Japanese Masterworks — and a New One
Venue(s): United Cinema Canal City13, CANAL CITY HAKATAOpening: Sept. 14 (Fri). Screenings: Sept. 15 (Sat) to Sept. 23 (Sun), 2018
Language: Most films will be with Japanese and English subtitles
Theater website: canalcity.co.jp/english/shop/detail/31
Tariff: Single ticket: ¥1,300, 5 ticket pack: ¥5,500, Pass: ¥13,000, Students (day tickets only): ¥500
Advance tickets: Single ticket: ¥1,100, 5 ticket pack: ¥4,400, Pass: ¥11,000. Check the official website.
Talk event: Many talk event after screenings
Title: アジアフォーカス・福岡国際映画祭 2018 (Asian Focus Fukuoka Kokusai Eigasai 2018)
Thanks to our friends at the Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival, Tokyo Filmgoer once again has 5 pairs of screening tickets to give away! If you’re living in or visiting Fukuoka between Sept. 14 and 23 — or you’re a diehard cinema lover who has been looking for a reason to visit the beautiful southern cultural capital in Kyushu — this is your incentive.
Simply click on the following link,
fill in a few details and if you’re fast enough,
one pair of tickets will be yours.
The 28th year of the Focus on Asia-FIFF offers another impressive lineup of films showing with both English and Japanese subs. As always, the Japanese films are limited, with the festival instead selecting over a dozen “new and much talked-about” works from Asia for its competition, including titles from Iran, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Myanmar.
The sole Japanese film competing for the Fukuoka Audience Award is the multi-award-winning Japan-Myanmar coproduction Passage of Life, the story of a Myanmarese refugee family in crisis in Japan. Told with unusual poignancy and empathy, and featuring extraordinary performances by a cast of unknowns, the docufiction paints in broad strokes the final weeks before a loving family is separated, perhaps permanently. The first film from director Akio Fujimoto, it wonboth the Spirit of Asia Award and the Best Asian Future Film Award at the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival— the first time a Japanese director had been so honored — and has scooped up other awards during its ongoing overseas festival run.
Passage of Life, 僕の帰る場所
Special Screening
2017｜Japan, Myanmar｜100min
Director: FUJIMOTO Akio (藤元明緒)
In Passage of Life, Khin and Issace, arrive in Japan after their two sons, Kuang and Htet are born, finding illegal work and creating a happy life with their boys, whom they raise as Japanese. After several years of residency, Issace files an application for political refugee status, but the request is denied, as happens all too frequently in Japan. When Immigration shows up at the door and warns Issace to stop working, the writing’s on the wall. While her husband stays on to file another request, Khin takes the boys to Myanmar, and the family grapples with its uncertain future — in ways both charming and tragic.
Alas, some of the festival’s biggest treats will be screened in Japanese only. If your language skills are up to snuff, do notmiss the Special Feature of Japanese Filmssection, focusing on “The Family as Fragile and Breakable,” highlighting masterworks grappling with the collapse of Japan’s extended family system. This is a beautifully curated selection, featuring some of the most memorable recent. Included are Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first feature, Maborosi (1995), Shinji Somai’s Moving (1993), Jun Ichikawa’s Tony Takitani (2004), Takeshi Kitano’s Hanabi (1997) and Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s All Around Us (2008).
FIFF is also promoting new work from the Philippines, commemorating a century of Philippine cinema by showcasing 5 films that are all Japan premieres. Dubbing the special section “Drawn and Attracted to the Sacred Chaos,” it introduces four new titles by promising young filmmakers, as well as the 1976 masterpiece Speck in the Waterby Ishmael Bernal, belatedly making its international premiere.
CANAL CITY HAKATA
Thanks to our friends at the Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival, Tokyo Filmgoer once again has 5 pairs of screening tickets to give away! If you’re living in or visiting Fukuoka between Sept. 14 and 23 — or you’re a diehard cinema lover who has been looking for a reason to visit the beautiful southern cultural capital in Kyushu — this is your incentive.
Simply click on the following link,
fill in a few details and if you’re fast enough,
one pair of tickets will be yours.
The 28th year of the Focus on Asia-FIFF offers another impressive lineup of films showing with both English and Japanese subs. As always, the Japanese films are limited, with the festival instead selecting over a dozen “new and much talked-about” works from Asia for its competition, including titles from Iran, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Myanmar.
The sole Japanese film competing for the Fukuoka Audience Award is the multi-award-winning Japan-Myanmar coproduction Passage of Life, the story of a Myanmarese refugee family in crisis in Japan. Told with unusual poignancy and empathy, and featuring extraordinary performances by a cast of unknowns, the docufiction paints in broad strokes the final weeks before a loving family is separated, perhaps permanently. The first film from director Akio Fujimoto, it wonboth the Spirit of Asia Award and the Best Asian Future Film Award at the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival— the first time a Japanese director had been so honored — and has scooped up other awards during its ongoing overseas festival run.
Passage of Life, 僕の帰る場所
Special Screening
2017｜Japan, Myanmar｜100min
Director: FUJIMOTO Akio (藤元明緒)
In Passage of Life, Khin and Issace, arrive in Japan after their two sons, Kuang and Htet are born, finding illegal work and creating a happy life with their boys, whom they raise as Japanese. After several years of residency, Issace files an application for political refugee status, but the request is denied, as happens all too frequently in Japan. When Immigration shows up at the door and warns Issace to stop working, the writing’s on the wall. While her husband stays on to file another request, Khin takes the boys to Myanmar, and the family grapples with its uncertain future — in ways both charming and tragic.
Alas, some of the festival’s biggest treats will be screened in Japanese only. If your language skills are up to snuff, do notmiss the Special Feature of Japanese Filmssection, focusing on “The Family as Fragile and Breakable,” highlighting masterworks grappling with the collapse of Japan’s extended family system. This is a beautifully curated selection, featuring some of the most memorable recent. Included are Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first feature, Maborosi (1995), Shinji Somai’s Moving (1993), Jun Ichikawa’s Tony Takitani (2004), Takeshi Kitano’s Hanabi (1997) and Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s All Around Us (2008).
FIFF is also promoting new work from the Philippines, commemorating a century of Philippine cinema by showcasing 5 films that are all Japan premieres. Dubbing the special section “Drawn and Attracted to the Sacred Chaos,” it introduces four new titles by promising young filmmakers, as well as the 1976 masterpiece Speck in the Waterby Ishmael Bernal, belatedly making its international premiere.
CANAL CITY HAKATA
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