Japanese Film Festival “Eiga Sai ‘08” opens on July 8

[Lady-Rinoa]

i'll try to go rito ^__^ gusto ko rin yung J-Pop Anime Festival ^__^

[Maneki Neko]

Wahh!! ang tagal ko ng hinihintay ang sunod na eiga sai at eto n nga!! sana wla mashadong makaalam nito!! last eiga sai, ang daming may alam, hnd ko tuloy napanood lahat kc may pila na sa shang ung ticket booth!! bulok tlga! >;_<

Hahaha! Ayos sa concern a, hehe. Feeling ko depende rin kasi sa venue yung dami ng tao ^_^

[jurusu]

Tara lets!!! sabado movie marathon!!! teka maneki-sensei di ba may class ka nun? hindi mo maabutan ang linda linda hehehe. Weeeeeeeeeee!!!

[Maneki Neko]

^ Problema ba yun?! E di iwan ang klase, hahaha!

[hirodayuy]

^ Problema ba yun?! E di iwan ang klase, hahaha!

hahah huwaran ka talagang sensei! nako pagnabasa ng mga estudyante mo yan dito wahaha!

ako hindi pa ko nakakapanuod kahit isang beses ng eigasai dahil nga sa pila grrr! sana makapanuod na rin naman sana ko ilang taon ko ng inaasam asam na makapanuod ha hahaha

[Maneki Neko]

Panoorin ang Pacchigi at Linda Linda Linda! Dalhin ko ng ang DS ko para mas feel. Hehe.

[akiya]

un gus2 ko po manood heheh!! have no idea sa films pero gus2 ko to hahaa, and mdyo malapit shang lang heeh

[maro]

i want, i want! kaso hindi ako makakasama sa inyo sa july12 kasi may marathon ako the next day. baka ibang day ako makanood.
naranasan ko na rin yun pila sa shang. 2 movies lang un napanood namin. 3years ago ata un puro horror movies atapinalabas nila.

[moeru]

naranasan ko na rin yun pila sa shang. 2 movies lang un napanood namin. 3years ago ata un puro horror movies atapinalabas nila.

Sa UP ko pinanood ung horror movies... pero may bad experience tlga ako nung time na un.. kaya never na ko nanood nung eiga sai nung time na un kc na trauma ako. So isa lng napanood ko na horror! hehe

Last yr ung pinakamahabang pila tlga ever. 5 lng napanood ko out of 8! T_T Ung Kamikaze Girls tlga na miss ko! malas tlga.

[moeru]

Eto pla ung synopsis ng mga films. Hnd pwd mawala toh!

We Shall Overcome Someday
Japanese Title: Pacchigi

Cast:

Shioya Shun as Matsuyama Kosuke, Takaoka Sosuke as Lee Ang-son, Sawajiri Erika as Lee Kyung-ja, Koide Keisuke as Yoshida Norio, Yanagihara Kyoko as Momoko, Onoue Hiroyuki as Choi-deoki, Namioka Kazuki as Motoki Bang-ho, Maki Yoko as Cheong Gangja,Odagiri Jo as Sakazaki, Yo Kimiko as Kosuke’s mother, Maeda Gin as Motoki’s father, Mitsuishi Ken as Teacher Nunokawa


Synopsis:


This film takes place in 1968 in Kyoto, Japan. The background of the film is the turmoil of the 1960s and the relationship between Japanese and Koreans in Japan. The story begins when members of the karate group of a Kyoto high school insult two girls from a Korean high school. A war breaks out when the Korean girls get the boys from their school, led by a boy named Lee Ang-son, to seek revenge. The Japanese boys are reprimanded by their teacher, and two boys, Kosuke and Norio, are told to go to the Korean high school and make a peace offering: to have the two schools play a friendly match of soccer. While they are at the school, Kosuke hears the sound of a beautiful song of Ang-son’s little sister, Kyung-ja, a non-violent, peaceful, 2nd year high-school student who is part of a band. He finds himself drawn to the young girl and the sound of the Korean folk song, “Imjing River.” He steps over the ethnic divide and becomes friendly with Ang-son and his rough-neck gang.


Ang-son has plans to go back to Korea and has unknowingly gotten his girlfriend pregnant. Kosuke then find’s himself part of the group until an accident kills one of the Korean boys and Kosuke bears the brunt of the family’s anger. Kosuke begins to understand the anger felt by the Korean community toward the Japanese community through the music and words of the folk song. Ang-son finds out he is going to be a father and realizes he has to grow up.

**We Shall Overcome Someday was ranked as the best Japanese film of 2005 by the venerable Kinema Junpo. The film is based on the story Boy M’s Imjing River (“Shonen M no Imujin-gawa”) written by Matsuyama Takeshi. The director of the film, Izutsu Kazuyuki, debuted in 1975 in the world of pink films. But he is best known for Gaki Teikoku (1981) and Boys Be Ambitious (“Kishiwada Shonen Gurentai”) in 1996. He focused on young Korean residents in Japan in Gaki Teikoku, and after twenty years he once again took up Korean youth in Japan. We Shall Overcome Someday is said to be realistic and set in the rough and tough world of a people who are set in the margins of Japanese society. He received two Japanese Academy Award nominations for writing and directing this film. He made the sequel to the film in 2007 and has also become a well-known film critic.


Linda Linda Linda
Japanese Title: Rinda Rinda Rinda

Cast:

Bae Doo-na as Song, Maeda Aki as Yamada Kyoko, Kashii Yu as Tachibana Kei, Sekine Shiori as Shirakawa Nozomi, Mimura Takayo as Marumoto Rinko, Komoto Masahiro as Teacher Koyama


Synopsis:

This film about youth is set in modern-day high school just outside of Tokyo. In the days just before the school’s culture festival, a girl’s music group is facing a dilemma. They planned on playing an original piece of music but, three days before the festival, the guitarist appears to have broken her finger (actually she doesn’t want to break her nails) and an argument breaks out between the vocalist and Kyoko. They need to find a new guitarist and a new vocalist. While the remaining three girls are pondering who to ask to be the new vocalist, they hear the song, “Linda Linda Linda” by the famous Japanese
rock band Blue Hearts and decide they want to sing it instead of an original song.

A Korean exchange student, Song, is sitting in the next room and they take the chance to ask her to be their vocalist. Her Japanese is not perfect, and she’s never sung in front of an audience, but she just happens to be listening to the Blue Hearts song. They practice and practice but they don’t seem to be improving. They spend a lot of time at Kei’s ex-boyfriend’s studio and at the school practicing late into the night. They are really tired, but a deep friendship develops among the four girls.

The night before the festival, they practice late into the night and exhaust themselves. They suddenly wake up the next morning and realize that they are late for the festival. They arrive at the school just as the festival is finishing and perform as the last act. The audience loves them and the four girls play their hearts out.

**Linda Linda Linda was ranked as the 6th best film on the 79th Kinema Junpo best ten list for 2005. Director Yamashita Nobuhiro’s other films, Hazy Life (“Donten Seikatsu,” 2001), No One’s Ark (“Baka no Hakobune, 2002) and Ramblers (“Riarizumu no Yado,” 2003) also deal with the lives of youths. In Linda Linda Linda, the film uses minimalism and a level-headed approach to convey his ideas to the audience. The Korean character in the film, Song, is played by a Korean actor, Bae Doo-na. She has starred in such Korean films as Park Chan-Wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Hyeon Nam-Seob’s Saving My Hubby (2002). The actress who plays the role of the bassist, Nozomi, is a real-life musician.


Canary
Japanese title: Kanaria

Cast:

Ishida Hoshi as Iwase Koichi, Tanimura Mitsuki as Yuki, Nishijima Hidetoshi as Izawa, Koda Miyako as Michiko, Ryo as Saki, Tsugumi as Kozue, Mizuhashi Kenji as Tsumura, Toda Masahiro as Yoshioka, Inoue Yukiko as Yoshie, Shinagawa Toru as Iwase Ryuji


Synopsis:


Iwase Koichi has just escaped from a juvenile detention center. The 12-year-old boy had been placed there because the religious cult his mother Michiko had joined, called Nirvana, along with Koichi and his younger sister Asako, had committed murderous attacks on the general public. His grandfather had taken custody of Asako, but had left Koichi in detention, giving up on him as too brainwashed by the cult to live in normal society. As he flees, he runs in front of a car on a country road, causing it to crash. It just so happens that Yuki, a girl just his age, is in that car and the crash saves her from the driver, who had handcuffed her with the intention of molesting her. Yuki had run away from home after her mother died and was left in the custody of her abusive father. Deciding to pay Koichi back for saving her, she gets some money and clothes from a friend and joins him on his trip to Tokyo to get his sister back.


**Canary is one of several independent fiction films, including Koreeda Hirokazu’s Distance (2001) and Shinozaki Makoto’s Not Forgotten (“Wasurerarenu Hitobito,” 2000), that take as their subject the aftermath of the religious cult Aum Supreme Truth’s attacks on the general populace in 1994-1995. Like Koreeda’s film, or even the two documentaries, A (1998) and A2 (2001), by Mori Tatsuya, Canary considers the perspective of those in the cult, thus questioning the clear line between victim and victimizer drawn by the mass media. But uniquely it does that through the eyes of children, a gaze Shiota had taken up in earlier films such as Harmful Insect (“Gaichu,” 2002), Moonlight Whispers (“Gekko no Sasayaki,” 1999), and Don’t Look Back (“Doko made mo Iko,” 1999). There, as here, the push is toward depicting the communities young people can make as an alternative to a corrupt adult world.


Hanging Garden
Japanese Title: Kuchu Teien

Cast:

Koizumi Kyoko as Eriko, Itao Itsuji as Takashi, Suzuki Anne as Mana, Hirota Masahiro as Ko, Okusu Michiyo as Kinosaki Satoko, Sonim as Kitano Mina, Nagasaku Hiromi as Iizuka Asako


Synopsis:


Living in a suburban area in present-day Japan, the Kyobashi family looks like they are happy, but on the inside the reality is different. The family rule is that no one has any secrets, yet each member has their own secrets. The film is a character driven drama pertaining to the story of a family struggling to find the way to happiness. It is alternately funny, touching, and in some places quite frightening. It is also an exploration of the problems that plague a modern Japanese family, giving us a unique view that can be appreciated by those both within and outside of the Japan’s culture.


**The director of The Hanging Garden has made a number of waves. In 2005, he was arrested for drug use and became the bad boy of the Japanese film world. The Hanging Garden is his first film since then. The film is based on a novel written by Kakuta Mitsuyo. It is his fourth full feature film. In the past, his films centered with hostile men [Pornostar (1998), Blue Spring (“Aoi Haru,” 2001) and 9 Souls (2003)]. In this film, it uses a hanging basket to portray the rootlessness of society and how it affects people.


A Stranger of Mine
Japanese Title: Unmei ja nai Hito

Cast:

Nakamura Yasuhi as Miyata Takeshi, Kirishima Reika as Kuwata Maki, Yamanaka So as Kanda Yusuke, Yamashita Kisuke as , Itaya Yuka as Kurata Ayumi, Majima Hidekazu as Kaji Tetsuya, Chikamatsu Jin as Maruo Seiji, Sugiuchi Takashi as Fujimoto Kiyoshi, Kitano Tsuneyasu as Yamauchi Shigeru


Synopsis:


The film begins with unmistakable sense of dull drama between two strangers who had their share of misfortunes. Maki (Kirishima Reika), an introverted woman who just decided to leave her fiancee when she found out about his infidelity and Miyata (Nakamura Yasuhi), a timid office worker, is finding it hard to get his life back on track after being dumped by his fiancée. These two characters destinies become entwined when Kanda (Yamanaka So) - an unlucky detective and childhood friend of Miayata’s- makes them share a table in a restaurant.


**A Stranger of Mine was ranked as the 5th best film at the 79th Kinema Junpo best ten list for 2005, and is the feature debut of Uchida Kenji, one of the rare Japanese directors who studied abroad, at San Francisco State University. He won several awards at the Pia Film Festival for his short film Weekend Blues (2001), which helped him get a PFF Scholarship to make this movie, which in turn earned several prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Uchida is known as a director who emphasizes the script, and A Stranger of Mine features a quite complicated set of intricately interrelated stories that revolve around the axial restaurant scene that is shown several times from different perspectives. What functions as the real center, however, is the relationships between men and women, contrasting the idealistic Takeshi with the realistic Yusuke and the cynical Ayumi. The title, which is better translated as “A Person Who Is Not My Fated Partner,” asks, in a story full of coincidences, whether any of these chance encounters can be considered fate, romantic or not.


Juvenile Jungle
Japanese Title: Kurutta Kajitsu

Casts:

Ishihara Yûjirô, Tsugawa Masahiko, Kitahara Mie, Okada Masumi


Synopsis

This film is about a bunch of young men who live the good life (none have jobs, but they have money) in post-war Japan. The film focuses on two brothers and their mutual affection for a young lady named Eri. I don’t blame them for being infatuated with her, she is next to beautiful. First its the younger brother Haruji who is able to woo her. Then the older brother Natsuhisa goes for her, out of both desire and jealousy. Eri turns out to be married to an American who spends very little time with her, so she is able to be involved in these affairs.


Kurutta Kajitsu, is a story about two brothers competing for the affection of one woman. The brothers are part of a group of teenagers who congregate around their wealthy American friend. Things take a turn for the worse when each brother realizes that the object of his affection is not as innocent as she seems. The film is directed by Nakahira Ko and was adapted from the novel made by Ishihara Shintaro, a novelist and a politician, who is Governor of Tokyo
Metropolitan Government now.


Chibi Maruko Chan (Movie)

Casts:

Sakura Momoko as Chibi Maruko-chan (voice), Mizutani Yuko as Sakiko Sakura (voice)


Synopsis


As the second term commences, Maruko and her classmates return to their small groups. Maruko’s group includes two naughty boys and Maruko is forced to be one of their subordinates. She seems to face a lot of pressure at school. As the school’s athletic meet approaches, all the classmates are busy exercising. Maruko is no exception, although her laziness means that she is late sometimes. Maruko realizes that the two boys rival each other in everything they do, and that their friendship is deep and strong.


Chibi Maruko Chan is an animated series about Maruko and her life in the third grade and has been a mainstay in many Asian televisions for many years. This is a fun-loving and enjoyable anime that portrays the many simple things in life.

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