This Wednesday, in conjunction with 26 other countries and under the auspices of the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of that country, an exhibition of classic and modern titles begins
Good news for those who love to watch Japanese movies without leaving the couch: this Wednesday begins, here and in 26 other countries, the 3rd Japanese Film Festival Online. There are titles for all tastes, from the classic, tender and innocent “Kimba, the white lion”, by Osama Tezukain the original version from 1966, to a very crazy action comedy, “Baby Assassins”of Yugo Sakamoto (clumsy young women but with great ability to kill people), so successful that it already has two sequels. In between, “Single 8”a cheerful evocation of some kids so fascinated by the premiere of “Star Wars” that they decided to make their own version with a family camera.
For convenience, titles are announced in English. Comedies abound about gastronomy businesses, anime, wedding planning or recovery of a medieval fiefdom (“We’re Broke my Lord”). There are also many stories of sentimental, romantic relationships (“We made a Beautiful Bouquet”), unconventional (for example “I am what I am”), of teacher and disciple, of mother and autistic son (“The Lone Ume Tree”, by Kotaro Wajima) and of father and son, like melodrama “Father of the Milky Way Railroad” by Izuru Narushimaabout the family of Buddhist poet Kenji Miyazawa, author of children’s books that became better appreciated only after his death.
More stripped down, “The Zen Diary”, by Yuji Nakae, with Kenji Sawadaa thoughtful story of a widower who lives apart and only eats what he grows or collects from the forest, and the documentary “I go gaga: Welcome to Home, Mom”, by Nobutomo Naokowho records with affection and pain the decrepitude of his own parents.
Sidebar, for a sweet and melancholic gem, considered among the best films in the history of Japanese cinema: “24 Eyes” by Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954, which begins set in 1928 and takes 20 years in the life of a rural teacher and her students, who will grow up, and the war will happen to them. interpreters, Hideko Takamine and Chishu Ryuartists who also worked, several times, with the masters Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa.
All of this, including “My Broke Mariko”the drama of a young woman faced with the suicide of her friend, and four horror shorts, runs from Wednesday to Tuesday the 18th, through https://jff.jpf.go.jp/watch/jffonline2024/argentina. And from July 19 to 2, a couple of unpublished series, always free. Small detail: the movies “School Meals Time Graduation”, “Jungle Emperor Leo”That is, “Kimba the white lion”, “The lines that define me”, Wedding high” and “The Zen diary” will have the option of subtitles in Japanese for students and lovers of this language. They organize, Japan Foundation and the Embassy of Japan.
Source: Ambito
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