OSAKA ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2017

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Bringing the Best of Asian Film to Osaka

Venue(s): ABC Hall, Cine Libre Umeda, Umeda Burg 7, Hankyu Umeda Hall, National Museum of Art Osaka
March 3 (Fri) to 12 (Sun), 2017: visit official site: http://www.oaff.jp/2017/en/schedule/index.html
Language: Multilanguage with Japanese and English subtitles
Official website: www.oaff.jp/2017/en/index.html
Theater website: www.asahi.co.jp/abchall/map/
Advance tickets: Available from the end of February, 2017
Talk event: Many events and guests, please check the official site: http://www.oaff.jp/2017/en/event/index.html

Title: 第12回大阪アジアン映画祭 (Osaka Asian Film Festival 2017)

For those of you with a yen for Asian cinema, the place to be in early March is the Osaka Asian Film Festival. Now in its 12th year, OAFF will be presenting a lineup of nearly 60 films, including 16 in its main Competition section, representing the best new work from around the region — and by region, we mean a fairly extensive area, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Bhutan, Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Qatar. (They will also show Asian-focused films from Greece, France, the Netherlands and the US, for you completists out there.)

Under the leadership of founding Programming Director Sozo Teruyama, the festival continues to earn international accolades for its depth and breadth, from its cutting-edge Indie Forum films to its Competition, Special Screening and New Action! Southeast Asia titles —  all of which will be screened with English subtitles. This year, OAFF boasts 16 world premieres, four international premieres and one Asian premiere (all others are Japan premieres, of course).

For Japanese film fans, the most exciting world premiere is the Closing Film, Parks, by Natsuki Seta (A Liar and a Broken Girl), marking her long-awaited return to feature filmmaking. An incredibly inventive celebration of the 100th anniversary of Inokashira Park in Kichijoji, the film stars Ai Hashimoto as a college student and Mei Nagano as a high-school girl she meets near the park. Together, they follow clues in a love letter that eventually lead them to Shota Sometani, who then finds an old reel-to-reel tape recording of a love song. But the tape is damaged, the song stops in the middle, and the trio becomes obsessed with trying to recreate the missing portions. Soon, the past, present and future start converging in the park, in a charming, bittersweet, music-fueled story filled with touches of magical realism.

CL_Parks-01
Closing Film:  PARKS パークス Director: SETA Natsuki (瀬田なつき) 2017｜Japan｜118 min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: Japanese, English

In the Competition section, Japanese filmmaker Daisuke Miyazaki will premiere his Yamato (California), about a troubled female rapper who lives near a US military base in Japan (played by popular actress Hanae Kan). When the daughter of her mother’s American-GI boyfriend comes to visit from California, despite initial misgivings, the young women find ways to bond over their shared enthusiasm for music.

16.YAMATO (CALIFORNIA)[大和（カリフォルニア)] Director: MIYAZAKI Daisuke(宮崎大祐)/2016/Japan, USA, Netherlands, Taiwan
Competition Film: YAMATO (CALIFORNIA) 大和（カリフォルニア）Director: MIYAZAKI Daisuke (宮崎大祐) 2016｜Japan, USA, Netherlands, Taiwan｜119min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
The local highlight of every OAFF is the Indie Forum section, which this year features 12 films by emerging Japanese talent, including three supported by CO2 (Cineastes Organization Osaka). New York City’s venerable Japan Society will be bestowing the Japan Cuts Award on one of the Forum films, along with an invitation to screen the winner at the Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film in New York in July.

Among the titles in the Forum lineup is the new film by Shumpei Shimizu, Breathless Lovers. Shimizu earned widespread acclaim and won several awards for his 2015 short Kim, which screened at Rotterdam, among other festivals. Also in the lineup is Ronan Girre of France with I Want to Be Loved, a Japan-set romance that apparently attracted “gods, spirits and ghosts” to the set during its production.

清水
Indie Forum: BREATHLESS LOVERS 息ぎれの恋人たち Director: SHIMIZU Shumpei (清水俊平) 2017｜Japan｜20min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

I WANT TO BE LOVED [海の底からモナムール/ Besoin d’ amour] Director: Ronan GIRRE/2017/Japan, France｜Language: French, Japanese｜Subtitles: English
OAFF will also present a special package of six films under the moniker In & Out of Work: Looking at Asia through the Prism of Employment. Two of the films are from Japan: Yoichi Tanaka’s Ping Pang, about a young woman who finds relief at the ping pong table when she’s sexually harassed at work, and Yoshitaro Nomura’s The Refugee (1955), featuring Keiji Sada and Keiko Kishi as lovers — he, Chinese; she, Japanese — during wartime.

Special Program: In & Out of Work: Looking at Asia through the Prism of Employment

PING PANG[ピンパン] Director: TANAKA Yoichi(田中羊一)/2016/Japan
PING PANG ピンパン Director: TANAKA Yoichi (田中羊一) 2016｜Japan｜15min｜Language: Japanese, Chinese｜Subtitles: English
THE REFUGEE[亡命記] Director:NOMURA Yoshitaro(野村芳太郎)/1955/Japan
THE REFUGEE 亡命記 Director: NOMURA Yoshitaro (野村芳太郎) 1955｜Japan｜135min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

Housen Cultural Foundation: Support for film study and production

There are also Japanese titles in a section presented by the Housen Cultural Foundation, which supports film study and production in graduate schools around Japan.

Hosen_H26_Uminomura COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY 績（う）みの村 Director: IKEDA Keishiro (池田佳史郎) 2015｜Japan｜51min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English Hosen_H27_Renkon_1
COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY 績（う）みの村 Director: IKEDA Keishiro (池田佳史郎) 2015｜Japan｜51min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Hosen_H26_Icarus_main
ICARUS AND THE SON イカロスと息子 Director: SANADA Kohei (眞田康平) 2015｜Japan｜34min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Housen_kodomotachi main
PROMISES 子供たち Director: ENDO Mikihiro (遠藤幹大) 2015｜Japan｜85min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Hosen_H27_Renkon_1
BRIGHT NIGHT レンコーンの夜 Director: KONNO Yasumasa (今野恭成) 2016｜Japan｜43min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Hosen_H27_SweetestTruth_1 (1)
SWEETEST TRUTH スイーテスト・トゥルース Director: Evdoxia KYROPOULOU 2015年｜Japan, Greece｜58min｜Language: Japanese, Greek｜Subtitles: English

Indie Forum

DYNAMITE WOLF[おっさんのケーフェイ] Director: TANIGUCHI Kohei(谷口恒平)/2017/Japan/13th CO2 Grant-recipient Film [WP]
DYNAMITE WOLF (おっさんのケーフェイ)
Director: TANIGUCHI Kohei (谷口恒平)/2017/Japan/13th CO2 Grant-recipient Film ｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
WP] Director: KIMURA Asagi(木村あさぎ)/2017/Japan/13th CO2 Grant-recipient Film[WP]
HIZUME 蹄 Director: KIMURA Asagi (木村あさぎ) 2017｜Japan｜76min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

IF_CO2_Kashikasuru_01
VISUALIZED HEARTS 可視化する心たち Director: IGARASHI Akiko (五十嵐皓子) 2017｜Japan｜76min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Film[WP] 4. BAMY[バーミー] Director:TANAKA Jun(田中隼)/2016/Japan[WP]
BAMY バーミー Director: TANAKA Jun (田中隼) 2016｜Japan｜100min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
IF_Goodbye_01
GOOD-BYE さよならも出来ない Director: MATSUNO Izumi (松野泉) 2016｜Japan｜76min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
HER MOTHER HER MOTHER Director: SATO Yoshinori (佐藤慶紀) 2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
HER MOTHER
Director: SATO Yoshinori (佐藤慶紀)
2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
LOVE AND GOODBYE AND HAWAII 恋とさよならとハワイ Director: MATSUMURA Shingo (まつむらしんご) 2017｜Japan｜94min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
POETRY ANGEL ポエトリーエンジェル Director: IIZUKA Toshimitsu (飯塚俊光) 2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
POETRY ANGEL
ポエトリーエンジェル
Director: IIZUKA Toshimitsu (飯塚俊光)
2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
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TAMAYURA MARIKO たまゆらのマリ子 Director: SEGAWA Koji (瀬川浩志) 2016｜Japan｜65min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

Symposiums/Talk Events

A number of symposiums and talk events, featuring participating filmmakers, will be  held during the festival. Be sure to check the OAFF website for schedules and other details.

OAFF Theaters

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For those of you with a yen for Asian cinema, the place to be in early March is the Osaka Asian Film Festival. Now in its 12th year, OAFF will be presenting a lineup of nearly 60 films, including 16 in its main Competition section, representing the best new work from around the region — and by region, we mean a fairly extensive area, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Bhutan, Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Qatar. (They will also show Asian-focused films from Greece, France, the Netherlands and the US, for you completists out there.)

Under the leadership of founding Programming Director Sozo Teruyama, the festival continues to earn international accolades for its depth and breadth, from its cutting-edge Indie Forum films to its Competition, Special Screening and New Action! Southeast Asia titles —  all of which will be screened with English subtitles. This year, OAFF boasts 16 world premieres, four international premieres and one Asian premiere (all others are Japan premieres, of course).

For Japanese film fans, the most exciting world premiere is the Closing Film, Parks, by Natsuki Seta (A Liar and a Broken Girl), marking her long-awaited return to feature filmmaking. An incredibly inventive celebration of the 100th anniversary of Inokashira Park in Kichijoji, the film stars Ai Hashimoto as a college student and Mei Nagano as a high-school girl she meets near the park. Together, they follow clues in a love letter that eventually lead them to Shota Sometani, who then finds an old reel-to-reel tape recording of a love song. But the tape is damaged, the song stops in the middle, and the trio becomes obsessed with trying to recreate the missing portions. Soon, the past, present and future start converging in the park, in a charming, bittersweet, music-fueled story filled with touches of magical realism.

CL_Parks-01
Closing Film:  PARKS パークス Director: SETA Natsuki (瀬田なつき) 2017｜Japan｜118 min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: Japanese, English

In the Competition section, Japanese filmmaker Daisuke Miyazaki will premiere his Yamato (California), about a troubled female rapper who lives near a US military base in Japan (played by popular actress Hanae Kan). When the daughter of her mother’s American-GI boyfriend comes to visit from California, despite initial misgivings, the young women find ways to bond over their shared enthusiasm for music.

16.YAMATO (CALIFORNIA)[大和（カリフォルニア)] Director: MIYAZAKI Daisuke(宮崎大祐)/2016/Japan, USA, Netherlands, Taiwan
Competition Film: YAMATO (CALIFORNIA) 大和（カリフォルニア）Director: MIYAZAKI Daisuke (宮崎大祐) 2016｜Japan, USA, Netherlands, Taiwan｜119min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
The local highlight of every OAFF is the Indie Forum section, which this year features 12 films by emerging Japanese talent, including three supported by CO2 (Cineastes Organization Osaka). New York City’s venerable Japan Society will be bestowing the Japan Cuts Award on one of the Forum films, along with an invitation to screen the winner at the Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film in New York in July.

Among the titles in the Forum lineup is the new film by Shumpei Shimizu, Breathless Lovers. Shimizu earned widespread acclaim and won several awards for his 2015 short Kim, which screened at Rotterdam, among other festivals. Also in the lineup is Ronan Girre of France with I Want to Be Loved, a Japan-set romance that apparently attracted “gods, spirits and ghosts” to the set during its production.

清水
Indie Forum: BREATHLESS LOVERS 息ぎれの恋人たち Director: SHIMIZU Shumpei (清水俊平) 2017｜Japan｜20min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

I WANT TO BE LOVED [海の底からモナムール/ Besoin d’ amour] Director: Ronan GIRRE/2017/Japan, France｜Language: French, Japanese｜Subtitles: English
OAFF will also present a special package of six films under the moniker In & Out of Work: Looking at Asia through the Prism of Employment. Two of the films are from Japan: Yoichi Tanaka’s Ping Pang, about a young woman who finds relief at the ping pong table when she’s sexually harassed at work, and Yoshitaro Nomura’s The Refugee (1955), featuring Keiji Sada and Keiko Kishi as lovers — he, Chinese; she, Japanese — during wartime.

Special Program: In & Out of Work: Looking at Asia through the Prism of Employment

PING PANG[ピンパン] Director: TANAKA Yoichi(田中羊一)/2016/Japan
PING PANG ピンパン Director: TANAKA Yoichi (田中羊一) 2016｜Japan｜15min｜Language: Japanese, Chinese｜Subtitles: English
THE REFUGEE[亡命記] Director:NOMURA Yoshitaro(野村芳太郎)/1955/Japan
THE REFUGEE 亡命記 Director: NOMURA Yoshitaro (野村芳太郎) 1955｜Japan｜135min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

Housen Cultural Foundation: Support for film study and production

There are also Japanese titles in a section presented by the Housen Cultural Foundation, which supports film study and production in graduate schools around Japan.

Hosen_H26_Uminomura COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY 績（う）みの村 Director: IKEDA Keishiro (池田佳史郎) 2015｜Japan｜51min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English Hosen_H27_Renkon_1
COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY 績（う）みの村 Director: IKEDA Keishiro (池田佳史郎) 2015｜Japan｜51min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Hosen_H26_Icarus_main
ICARUS AND THE SON イカロスと息子 Director: SANADA Kohei (眞田康平) 2015｜Japan｜34min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Housen_kodomotachi main
PROMISES 子供たち Director: ENDO Mikihiro (遠藤幹大) 2015｜Japan｜85min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Hosen_H27_Renkon_1
BRIGHT NIGHT レンコーンの夜 Director: KONNO Yasumasa (今野恭成) 2016｜Japan｜43min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Hosen_H27_SweetestTruth_1 (1)
SWEETEST TRUTH スイーテスト・トゥルース Director: Evdoxia KYROPOULOU 2015年｜Japan, Greece｜58min｜Language: Japanese, Greek｜Subtitles: English

Indie Forum

DYNAMITE WOLF[おっさんのケーフェイ] Director: TANIGUCHI Kohei(谷口恒平)/2017/Japan/13th CO2 Grant-recipient Film [WP]
DYNAMITE WOLF (おっさんのケーフェイ)
Director: TANIGUCHI Kohei (谷口恒平)/2017/Japan/13th CO2 Grant-recipient Film ｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
WP] Director: KIMURA Asagi(木村あさぎ)/2017/Japan/13th CO2 Grant-recipient Film[WP]
HIZUME 蹄 Director: KIMURA Asagi (木村あさぎ) 2017｜Japan｜76min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

IF_CO2_Kashikasuru_01
VISUALIZED HEARTS 可視化する心たち Director: IGARASHI Akiko (五十嵐皓子) 2017｜Japan｜76min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
Film[WP] 4. BAMY[バーミー] Director:TANAKA Jun(田中隼)/2016/Japan[WP]
BAMY バーミー Director: TANAKA Jun (田中隼) 2016｜Japan｜100min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
IF_Goodbye_01
GOOD-BYE さよならも出来ない Director: MATSUNO Izumi (松野泉) 2016｜Japan｜76min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
HER MOTHER HER MOTHER Director: SATO Yoshinori (佐藤慶紀) 2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
HER MOTHER
Director: SATO Yoshinori (佐藤慶紀)
2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
LOVE AND GOODBYE AND HAWAII 恋とさよならとハワイ Director: MATSUMURA Shingo (まつむらしんご) 2017｜Japan｜94min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
POETRY ANGEL ポエトリーエンジェル Director: IIZUKA Toshimitsu (飯塚俊光) 2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
POETRY ANGEL
ポエトリーエンジェル
Director: IIZUKA Toshimitsu (飯塚俊光)
2016｜Japan｜95min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English
IF_Tamayura_01
TAMAYURA MARIKO たまゆらのマリ子 Director: SEGAWA Koji (瀬川浩志) 2016｜Japan｜65min｜Language: Japanese｜Subtitles: English

Symposiums/Talk Events

A number of symposiums and talk events, featuring participating filmmakers, will be  held during the festival. Be sure to check the OAFF website for schedules and other details.

OAFF Theaters

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