Aichi International Women's Film Festival

FOREVER THE MOMENT -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

3 Sep.(Wed.)10:00 Will Hall
4 Sep.(Thu.)10:00 Conference Room
6 Sep.(Sat.)13:00 Kitanagoya City Culture Labor Hall
7 Sep.(Sun.)13:30 Komaki Manabi Creative Center

Korea/2007/124min.
Director: Yim Soon-rye

A great handball player Mi-sook(So-ri Moo) is now working at a supermarket to live with her child. At that time, she is offered to join the Korean National Women's Handball Team. She and her teammates get over inconsideration of a male coach (Tae-woong Eom) and intergenerational conflicts between two generations, and are active in the Athens Olympics. This film is based on the true story and impressed four million audiences in Korea.

SINGAPORE DREAMING -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

©Media Luna Entertainment

3 Sep.(Wed.)14:00 Will Hall
7 Sep.(Sun.)10:00 Conference Room
6 Sep.(Sat.)13:30 Integrated Social Education Center, Yatomi City

Singapore/2004/105min.
Directors: Woo Yen Yen, Colin Goh

When a woman's husband wins the lottery which was a dream for years and is about to be rich, he dies suddenly. This film describes incisively and humorously each dream and setback of the bereaved wife, daughter, daughter's husband, son, and son's girlfriend. This became a big hit which recorded the largest box office profits in independent films for the past eight years in Singapore.

KOUME,THE LEGENDARY SINGER -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

©Committe of KOUME,THE LEGENDARY SINGER

3 Sep.(Wed.)14:00 Conference Room

Japan/2007/76min.
Director: Hiko Yamamoto

A national singer, Koume Akasaka dominated the world of the folk songs, such as "Kuroda-bushi" and "Komoro-magouta", and appeared on the Year-End Grand Song Festival, four times including the first festival. This documentary film describes her life featuring her wonderful singing voice with locations such as her hometown chikuho, where she was born and raised.

THE STONE ANGEL -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

3 Sep.(Wed.)18:50 Will Hall

Canada/2007/115min.
Director: Kari Skogland

Have I ever been happy in my life? -Hagar looks back to her uninhibited youth and difficult married life on the way to the institution for the aged with her son and daughter-in-law. This film is the impressive life drama and describes that she comes to accept her fate in her old age with the vast nature for the background. You will be attracted the great acting by Oscar winning actress Ellen Burstyn.

NICHIJOU -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

3 Sep.(Wed.)18:30 Conference Room

Japan/2006/75min.
Director: Kaori Sasabe

All cast members are comedians belonging to Talent Agency Yoshimoto Kogyo. This film is a little surreal and heartwarming group's comedy which current popular Yoshimoto young comedians, such as Kendo Kobayashi and Jicho-Kacho, play in Osaka and daily scenes sketched.

BINGAI -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

4 Sep.(Thu.)10:00 Will Hall

China/2007/114min.
Director: Feng Yan

Before the threat of the submergence is imminent due to, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam that is China National Project, one million farmers who live along the banks of the Yangtze River are to be relocated. This documentary film follows seven years of a woman Bingai. She fights with officials who order her to relocate and consistently refuses to relocate while she supports her sickly husband and frazzle their children's education.

FIGHTER -will be shown for the first time in Japan

4 Sep.(Thu.)18:30 Will Hall
6 Sep.(Sat.)10:00 Conference Room
7 Sep.(Sun.)13:30 Nisshin Citizens Hall

Denmark/2007/97min.
Director: Natasha Arthy

A high school girl Aicha starts training at a kung fu club. But her parents, who are Turkish immigrants and devout Muslims, oppose her idea of joining the mixed kung fu club. Aicha begins to find her lifestyle through value conflicts, her family and her love.

BORN INTO BROTHELS:CALCUTTA'S RED LIGHT KIDS -will be shown for the first time in Japan

5 Sep.(Fri.)10:00 Will Hall

U.S.A., India/2004/85min.
Directors: Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski

Eight children were born and bred in the red lights district in calcutta,India, where a woman photographer found them. She covered their lives closely, and taught them how to use cameras and how to take pictures. This documentary film described the invaluable episodes which happened in the harsh reality.

NEKONADE -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

©Committee of NEKONADE

5 Sep.(Fri.)14:00 Will Hall

Japan/2008/85min.
Director: Mika Omori

Onizuka (Ren Ohsugi), the human resource manager at the IT company, is a pathetic middle manager who is coldly restructuring, while suffering from a stomachache. But the encounter with the abandoned cat brings about dramatic changes in his daily life. The short film, "Heroine" directed by Omori (2005/19min. Staring: Erika Okuda) will be shown before the featune film "NEKONADE".

IF TODAY WAS THE LAST DAY, -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

5 Sep.(Fri.) 18:30 Will Hall

Japan/2007/107min.
Director: Akina Yanagi

The scene is Hachijo Island. Directer Yanagi who graduated from Aichi Prefectural Asahigaoka High School in 2003, describes the story of the twin sister's youth. The twin sisters, Seiko and Maiko, were separated when they were very young children. After 20 years, they go to Hachijo Island to live together for the moment. Hiromi Yanagi who played the twin younger sister Maiko is the director's true younger sister.

TIRAMISU -will be shown for the first time in Japan

5 Sep.(Fri.)18:30 Conference Room
7 Sep.(Sun.)14:00 Will Hall
6 Sep.(Sat.)13:00 Tahara Cultural Park

The Netherlands/2007/90min.
Director: Paula van der Oest

A veteran actress, Anne stands at the crossroads of age, and is also failing financially. But she doesn't want to part with the boathouse where her 12-year-old daughter was brought up. A licensed tax accountant, Jacob makes every effort to help her out, but----. She thinks tenderly of her daughter who is hurt by the parents' divorce while she carves out her life which everything will go against her.

SMELL OF SUNSHINE -will be shown for the first time in Aichi

6 Sep.(Sat.)14:00 Conference Room

Japan/2008/129min.
Director: Yoko Tashiro

Satomi Yamada came to a farm in Shintoku Town, Hokkaido after she graduated from Jiyu Gakuen School. The scenes are described calmly: growing vegetables with disabled people, housekeeping while carrying a child on her back, talking with her husband at table, and producing the movie festival with her friends. This is the documentary film shows the real life which you can't imagine from the Japanese title "KUSO NO MORI".

PSYCHOLOGIST TSURUKO HARAGUCHI MEMORIES OF HER DAYS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE EARLY 1900s

4 Sep.(Thu.)14:00 Will Hall

Japan/2007/95min.
Director: Etsuko Izumi

100 years ago, Tsuruko Haraguchi traveled alone to study at Columbia University in New York, at 22 years old, and was the first Japanese women getting a PhD.in Psychology, but she died at 29 years old without fulfilling her life ambition. This touching documentary firm shed light on the unknown life of pioneer woman.

2DAYS IN PARIS

4 Sep.(Thu.)19:00 Conference Room

France, Germany/2007/101min.
Director: Julie Delpy

Marion, a French photographer and Jack, an American interior designer are a couple living in New York have been going out for two years, and to rekindle their humdrum relationship, they go to Venice on vacation. On their return trip, they spend two days in Marion's hometown Paris. Jack experiences one culture shock after another. What is going to happen in their love?

AWAY FROM HER

6 Sep.(Sat.)19:00 Will Hall

Canada/2006/110min.
Director: Sarah Polley

This is the first feature film directed by Sarah Polley an actress, who earned strong support of female fans as a player in "MY LIFE WITHOUT ME". Fourty-four years after getting maried, the is hit by unexpected situation, which the wife, Fiona is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Her husband supports her solitude. This excellent work is the thought-provoking film what a marital bond is.

"CINEMA PICNIC" THE PINCHCLIFFE GRAND PRIX (The Japanese Dubbed Version)

7 Sep.(Sun.)14:00 Conference Room

Norway/1975/90min.
Director: Ivo Caprino

Though 30 years passed since the release in 1975, this amazing puppet animation holds No.1 attendance record in Norwegian film industry. Adults and children can enjoy this film, particularly the accurate workmanship for backgrounds as well as puppets, lovable characters and powerful car-racing scenes.

THE STORY WRITTEN BY WATER

3 Sep.(Wed.)10:00 Conference Room

Japan/1965/120min.
Director: Kiju Yoshida

A local bank clerk, Matsutani (Yasunori Irikawa) doesn't make up his mind to get married because he suspects that his beautiful mother (Mariko Okada) and father of his fiancee, Yumiko (Ruriko Asaoka) are in love with each other. If that is true, he and his fiancee are siblings. Kiju Yoshida made the original novel by Yojiro Ishizaka which has an incestuous risk into a movie boldly and finely.

STRAY DOG

5 Sep.(Fri.)10:00 Conference Room

Japan/1949/122min.
Director: Akira Kurosawa

This is a criminal mystery in which a new police detective (Toshiro Mifune) chases a stolen gun and robbery homicide caused by the gun with the help of a veteran police detective chief (Takashi Shimura). This is a masterpiece in contemporary dramas directed by Mr.Kurosawa which describes vividly postwar streets, manners and customs, and people who live in Tokyo.

MOTHER

5 Sep.(Fri.)14:00 Conference Room

Japan/1952/98min.
Director: Mikio Naruse

This story was made with a mother of Fukuhara family (Kinuyo Tanaka) who helps her husband to reopen the war-damaged laundry as the central figure. She meets with misfortunes which son's death from sickness follows her husband 's (Masao Mishima) death from sickness, and so on while living admirably with help by her father's former apprentice ,Kimura(Daisuke Kato).This describes delicately such mother and her oldest daughter (Kyoko Kagawa) who watches such mother.

TOKYO TOWER-MAM&ME,&SOMETIMES DAD

6 Sep.(Sat.)10:00 Will Hall

Japan/2007/143min.
Director: Joji Matsuoka

At the age of three, I was taken out from Kokura by my mam (Kirin Kiki) who parted from my prodigal dad (Kaoru Kobayashi) and came back to my mam's parents'house in Chikuho. My mam helps her younger sister's small Japanese restaurant while she starts to raise me (Jo Odagiri) by herself. This is the film version of a best seller written by Lily Franky. This won the Best Film Award of the Academy Award of Japan in 2007.

KABEI-OUR MOTHER

6 Sep.(Sat.)14:00 Will Hall

Japan/2008/132min.
Director: Yoji Yamada

This author, Teruyo Nogami had served as a scripter of all films directed by Mr.Kurosawa since "RASHOMON" (1950), and is a member of the steering committee for this film festival. This director, Yoji Yamada made her original story, "The Requiem for My Father" (1984) into a film under the new title of "KABEI-OUR MOTHER". This describes interchange between the father who is thrown into jail as an offender on thought and the remained family during war. (The cast --- Kayo Nogami:Sayuri Yoshinaga, Shigeru Nogami:Mitsugoro Bando, Toru Yamazaki:Tadanobu Asano)

I JUST DIDN'T DO IT

7 Sep.(Sun.)10:00 Will Hall
with japanese subtitles, voice gaide for visually-impaired

Japan/2007/143min.
Director: Masayuki Suo

This describes that a young man (Ryo Kase) who was mistaken for a molester in an overcrowded commuter train has experienced trials for a year since. Is he ever guilty or not guilty? This is a social drama which the director had gathered materials of his own accord for more than three years, and made the point at issue of Japanese criminal court system clear. This won almost all numerous film prizes in 2007.

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Special Program "CINEMA PICNIC"

Japanese Classics