ICE RAIN Kim Eun-sook
◇Korea / 2003 / Color / 104min.
Date: September 8th Wed.10:00September 9thThu.18:50September11th Sat.13:30 SHIKATSU September 12th.13:30 Sun TOKONAME
Lee Sung-jae,"Art Museum by the Zoo", Song Seung-heon," Autumn in My Heart", "summer fragrance ", Kim Ha-Neul" Remember me",　a three top star contest makes the mountains love story. The men who aim toward AshiakuAlaska mountaintop.They are two people who do not know mutual existence; the recollection which each tells in the face of death was the same woman’s thing. The love story drawn on the grand scale of location venture inCanada.

GRANNY  Lidia Bobrova　
◇Russia, France/ 2003 / Color / 97 min.Date: September 8th Wed.14:00 September 10th Fri.18:50 September 12th sun.13:30 kOMAKI
Granny who lives in the country in Russian brought up three sons and two daughters. After all children grow, she becomes the one person, sells the house and stays with the place of the younger sister. But the younger sister hurts her foot, eventually Granny is forced out of the house. As she visited her children’s house, she forms a stark contrast with them who do not welcome Granny. This is road movie of the old woman using "Tokyo story" by the director Ozu as the motif. The excellent work which draws the elderly people’s problem against the background of Russia.

GONE IS THE ONE WHO HELD DEAREST IN THE WORLD　　Ma Xiao Ying　           
◇China / 2002 / Color / 95 min.         Date: September 8th Wed.18:50
This original is the story with the strong autobiography-element of Ms. Chan Zie famous for China. It describes “the affection of parent and child” as female writer; it also calmly asks the universal subject of how old father and mother should be treated, how we have them receive their death without repenting as well as avoiding our own repent. Many prizes in China such as best new director and best supporting actress at the Changchun International Film Festival in 2003.

I LIKE TO WORK  Francesca Comencini　
◇Italy / 2003 / Color / 89 min.
Date: September 8th Wed.18:30　September 9th Thu. 10:00　 September  11th Sat.13:30 INUYAMA
Anna, a single mother with a schoolchild’s girl. Recently the company bought out by a multinational, and she is taken the labor force by new boss. As Anna tends to rest for child-rearing, she is rapidly driven away to sinecure. The restructuring of her will be carried out at last. Anna musters up the courage to talk to someone about what she is going through, she brings an action against unreasonable company. This film portraits the present state of the women with child who work, peace prize award at the Berlin film festival in 2003.

THE KITE  Randa Chahal Sabbag　
◇Lebanon, France/ 2003 / Color / 80 min.
Date: September 9th Thu.13:30   September 12 th Thu.10:00 
16-year-old Lamia must cross the barbed wire barrier that separates her Lebanese villages from that of family, friends, and her favorite toy, a kite to reach her fiance’s village in territories annexed by Israel. Lamia refuses her future husband and instead found her falling for someone on the other side of the barbed wire ? an Israeli soldier. The film portraits the love faced across the boarder and the sadness of a family and a race divided. It awards silver lion prize at the Venetian film festival in 2003.

AUGUSTIN, KING OF KUN-FU    Anne Fontaine
◇France, Spain/ 1999 / Color / 89 min.
Date: September 9th Thu.18:50
Unpopular actor, Augustin takes lesson in kung-fu as influenced by Jackie Chan. Then he meets a beautiful acupuncture and moxa-cauterizer in China town, and he falls in love with her. This is French comedy which is a sequel of “Augustin” called as France version “Mr. Been”. The Director Ms. Anne Fontaine has also good reputation in her new work “Nathalie…”.

THE FLOATING LANDSCAPE  Carol Lai
◇Hong Kong /2003/Color /105 min.
Date: September 10th Fri.10:00
Relying only on a landscape painting by her late lover Sam, Maan sets out in search of that very landscape. She begins to transcribe the diary of Sam in an effort to imprint his memory in her heart constantly. However the memory of the Sam fades as time passes. Maan meets a postman by the name of Lit, he is good cooperator for her, and both of them are in love with each other. But Maan feel resistance for new love. Spring comes, it is the time of separation….Will Mann be able to find the “landscape”?

HEJAR　       Handan ipekci　
◇Turkey / 2001 / Color / 120 min.
Date: September 10th Fri.14:00
Hejar, a five- year-old Kurd girl, had lost her parents and lives with her relatives in Istanbul. One day there are police raids, killing everyone except her. Hejar is now under the guardianship of Rifat, a former judge who is neighbor. Rifat is stubborn at first to stubborn Hejar can speak only Kurd language. The excellent work portraits the serious Kurd people problem in Turkey, using the exchange of the heart of an old man and a child as a motif.

OPEN HEARTS　  Suzanne Bier
◇Demark / 2002 / Color / 113 min.
Date: September 10th Fri. 18:50
Cecile and Joachim was a happy couple before marriage. Joachim becomes total paralysis by a sudden car accident, He comes to shut his heart and treat Cecile unkindly. In the meantime, Niels, a husband of wrongdoer, who is the doctor of the hospital in which Joachim is hospitalized and he supports Cecile’s mind. This is the excellent work which one person out of eight people weeps after appreciating a film in Denmark.

TAKE CARE OF MY CAT  Jeong-Jae-eun　　
◇Korea / 2001 / Color / 112min.
Date: September 10th Fri.10:00　
This is the story for five female friends after their high school in the city of Incheon. They find a difficulty of keeping good relationship by beginning their new life, not like high school student days. One is self-confident and ambitious in her company; the other has to take care of her grandparents while grappling with her job hunting. Gradually their distance and sense of value change･･･ It is great work that describes sweet-sourness in friendship of girls who go up the stairs to an adult.    

MUSUMEDOJOJI  　Yukiko Takayama
◇Japan/2003/Color/110min.
Date: September 11thSat.14:00  
Its fantastic love story revolves Japanese beautifulness and ultimate man and woman’s love. Ms. Riho Makise plays a dual role about love and hate to Mr. Tomitaro Murakami who is a great actor that plays feminine role. Siori, his female pupil, committed suside. Haruka who is Siori’s twin’s elder sister is apprenticed to him in order to know the reason. Haruka is loved him soon. The ninth kabuki actor Mr. Fukusuke Nakamura’s debut on the film also becomes the topic.

SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE    Nancy Meyers 
◇USA / 2003 / Color / 128 min.
Date: September 11thSat.18:30
Erika is in her middle 50s. By arriving of unexpected love, she becomes to think that there are wonderful possibilities even if she gets older. This film is rich in the wit of life and an exceptionally romantic love story. The female director speaks for all females hearts. The grown- up love is shown by Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson.

SINCE OTAR LEFT   Julie Bertuccelli  
◇France/2000/Color/120min.
Date: September 12th Sun.14:30
Old woman Eka, her daughter Marina and grand daughterAda- three generations of man less family live in theGeorgia.Otar, Eka’s son, is an immigrant worker inFrance whose death forcesMarina and Ada to weave a tale of lies that he lives happily so that Eka may not feel sad. Its admiration work awards the grand prize at Cannes’ International Critics’ Week 2003.

KANEKO         Nobuko Sibuya 
◇Japan / 2003 / Color / 80 min.
Date: September 10th Fri.14:00
This is a documentary film about Ms. Kaneko Yanagi who is the leading Alto vocalist inJapan. After her death, it is the memorial work portrayed over 20 years that she was active in singer to 87 years old. It portraits the reason why she aspires to be a vocalist and an encounter with her husband Mr. Muneyoshi Yanagi as a track of females heart by  pressing her for humanity as well as weaving 20 Japanese songs sung by Kaneko herself.Kaneko’s appearance in a dignified voice and with wearing kimono should not be missed to see.

TAIZO          Takako Nakajima 
◇Japan / 2003 / Color / 96 min.
Date: September 10rd Fri.14:00
This film is documentary of battlefield cameraman Taizo Ichinose who passed away in Angkor wat. 200４ are the 30th anniversary of Taizo after his death. The director Nakajima who was influenced by Taizo’s photograph and his way of life traces his gait in Cambodia again. Nakajima also goes to parent’s left-behind and she carefully follows the feeling of mother who keeps printing Taizo’s photograph.

TON TON GIKO GIKO〜creation time〜 Mariko Nonaka
◇Japan / 2004 / Color / 99 min.
Date: September 11th Sat.10:00
This is the newest documentary that Director Mariko Nonaka of “Children’s Time” photographed by making an elementary school into the stage. The children are looking forward to a drawing and manual arts class of once a week. The figure of the children who are released from restraint of an adult and face their own work freshly earnestly stirs an important thing that we forget as growing up.

DONT & NOT  Aki Funabiki 
◇Japan/ 2003 / Color / 27min.   Date: September 12th Sun.13:30
Dont and Not are under activity, aiming to be Variety show entertainer as doll with the intention of making human laugh. This clay animation awards the audience prize at the D-CINEMA.

KIBA     Ｃaterine ＣADOU    
◇France/ 2004 / Color / 65 min. Date: September 12th Sun.13:30
It is a documentary on which Ms. Katerine KADOU who loves　Japan such as introducing a Japanese film in　France draws Kiba -the downtown area- in　Tokyo from a humanistic view point.