Japanese Film Festival is back! Movie fans can now enjoy another series of Japanese films again in Malaysia at the Japanese Film Festival 2010 which will take place from 17 – 21 June 2010 at GSC Mid Valley and GSC 1 Utama (New Wing), then will move to Penang from 25 – 27 June 2010 at GSC Gurney Plaza. This is the 7th year the Japanese Film Festival is held in Malaysia, and it will open with “Dear Doctor” by NISHIKAWA Miwa, a very talented young female director. Don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity to watch great new Japanese films!
Japanese Film Festival 2010 is organized by The Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur, Golden Screen Cinemas and GSC International Screens. A total of eight (8) films will be showcased during this festival, which include “Dear Doctor”, “THE SUMMIT: A Chronicle of Stones”, “Feel the Wind”, “NORIBEN～The Recipe of Fortune”, “One Million Yen Girl”, “YAMAZAKURA – The Cherry Tree in the Hills”, “Dog in a Sidecar” and “5 Centimeters per Second”. All films are in Japanese with English titles.
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Noriben: The Recipe of Fortune
Dir: Ogata Akira (2009). Casts: Konishi Manami, Okada Yoshinori, Murakami Jun.
Komaki Nagai leaves her useless husband, with her daughter in tow, and looks for work in the town she was raised in. She soon accepts part-time work and bumps into her classmate, Tateo, who takes her to a Totoya tavern. Enraptured by the taste of their mackerel, she becomes determined to open the ultimate box lunch shop.
Feel the Wind
Dir: Omori Sumio (2009). Casts: Koide Keisuke, Jayashi Kento, Nakamura Yuichi
Anyone would agree, that the challenge they undertook was impossible. Haiji was an elite runner until his fateful injury. He encounters Kakeru, a gifted runner who got kicked out from the track team after a trouble with his high school coach. Haiji immediately feels that Kakeru is the runner that will make his dream come true.
Dear Doctor
Dir: Nishikawa Miwa (2009). Casts: Eita, Yo Kimiko, Yachigusa Kaoru.
A Tokyo medical graduate student is assigned as an intern in a tiny under-populated mountain village. There, he becomes friendly with Ino, a helpful veteran doctor who visits the sick in the middle of the night. As the only doctor in the village, its inhabitants regard Ino as a god.
Yamazakura: The Cherry Tree in the Hills
Dir: Shinohara Tetsuo (2008). Casts: Tanaka Lena, Higashiyama Noriyuki, Shionada Saburo, Dan Fumi.
– Set in the Ido period, Noe has lost her husband and married into the Isomura family. Her encounter with a samurai, Tezuka Yaichiro (who desires Noe as his wife), makes her already wretched life miserable. Faced with a drought and severe land tax, Yaichiro makes a decision that will change both of their lives.
Dog in a Sidecar
Dir: Negishi Kichitaro (2007). Casta: Yuko Takeuchi, Arata Furuta, Hana Matsumoto.
This original story tells the tale of Kaoru, a young girl who lives with her obnoxious brother and feckless parents. After her mother abruptly leaves one day, a mysterious woman, by the name of Yoko, shows up at her front door. A walking contradiction to all notions of proper womanhood, Yoko eventually takes the girl under her wing and brings her out of her shell.
One Million Yen Girl
Dir: Tanada Yuki (2008). Casts: Yû Aoi, Mirau Moriyama, Pierre Taki.
A 21-year old girl is recently released from prison and has to put up with local neighbourhood gossip about her. She makes up her mind to save one million yen, move to a different locale and continue doing so. Her travels end up being a journey of discovery about herself.
5 Centimeters per Second
Dir: Shinkai Makoto (2007). Voice of: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondō, Satomi Hanamura.
An animated film about life’s struggles (through time, space, people and love) that begins in the early 1990s and ends in modern day Japan. The title of the film comes from the speed in which cherry blossom petals fall: a metaphorical representation of humans and how people drift apart. Each of the three segment focuses on Takaki Tōno and his struggles to forget the love of his young life: Akari Shinohara.
For screening schedule, please visitwww.gsc.com.my.