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Japan Cuts 2008 Feature Film
more info: http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts
Sakuran
by art photographer Mika Ninagawa; Official Selection, Berlin 2007; NY Premiere at Japan Society, NYC.
Japan Cuts – Festival of New Japanese Film
July 2-13, 2008
more info: http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts
Duration : 0:2:8
Film by Midi Onodera
The story unfolds through a Canadian-born Japanese woman’s voice-over as she dreams her way though Japan. Ostensibly searching for an emotional connection with her aging father, the woman contemplates her own inherited culture and familial touchstones. Her North American pop culture sensibility fuses with a distorted Japanese perspective to create a surreal interpretation of a “Japan of the imagination.” This fictional landscape is peppered with invented Japanese myths, ruminations on memory loss, the temporal space of digital photography and the ghosts of inherited imagination.
77 min. experimental narrative, digital video, super 8, Lomographic Supersampler, Barbie Wireless Videocam, Intel Digital camera, Tyco & Trendmaster toy video cameras
Music by Lewis Kaye, Sound Edit and SFX by Chandra Bulucon of Puppy Machine, Sound Mixer by Kevin Tokar.
For more info on this film: www.midionodera.com
Duration : 0:0:57
Posted in japanese landscape photography | 
Tags: bulucon, chandra, documentary, dream, experimental, father, film, hachiko, japan, kaye, lewis, midi, narrative, onodera, video | 
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Dutch filmmaker Peter Delpeut, who inventively embroidered found footage into his own narratives in “Lyrical Nitrate” and “The Forbidden Quest,” uses hand-tinted photographs from the late 19th century to evoke a tine and place in “Felice…Felice…” Shot entirely in an Amsterdam studio, the somber romantic drama’s rather cold formalism may shut out some fest audiences, but those that stick around long enough for it to kick in on an emotional level will find much to admire. Pic was warmly received as the official opener of this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival.
Delpeut’s tragic love story about the cultural chasm between East and West was inspired by the pictures taken by turn-of-the-century Japanese photographers Hikoma Uenoand Renjo Shimooka and Western visitors of the time such as Baron von Stilfried and Felice Beato. The latter is the protagonist of this fictionalized “Madame Butterfly” variant; his hopeless quest to reconjure a lost love is narrated via a letter to his brother back in Holland.
Six years after abandoning his bought bride O-Kiku (Kumi Nakamura) in Nagasaki, photographer and explorer Beato (Johan Leysen) returns to Japan and attempts to track the woman, who has retreated further sand further into his memory. Finding their former home empty he continues on to places they once lived in or visited, traveling across a country now increasingly remote and unfathomable to him. The journey is punctuated by encounters with people who knew them, but the reticence and immovability of the Japanese only adds to Felice’s frustration.
The restraint and lethargic pacing of Delpeut’s direction allow attention to drift to the film’s craftsmanship rather than its drama. Working with actors for the first time, Delpeut elicits intense highly focused performances, most notably from solemn lead Leysen, and from Proett and veteran Yoshi Oida (“The Pillow Book”) as O-Kiku’s troubled father. Similar in some ways to Tran Anh Hung’s “The Scent of Green Papaya,” which also created an Asian environment in a European studio, the film’s artifice is very much part of its spell. Editor Menno Boerema’s work is especially fine in giving a non-static life to the subtly colored photographs that trace Felice’s journey and link the studio scenes.
– Variety, February 23 – March 1, 1998
Director: Peter Delpeut
Screenplay: Peter Delpeut
Production Company: Pieter van Huystee Films/Ariel Film
Producers: Pieter van Huystee/Suzanne van Voorst
Line producer: Hetty Krapels
Photography: Walther Vanden Ende
Musical score: Loek Dikker
Editor: Menno Boerema
Art director: Vincent de Pater
Costumes: Jany Temime
CAST
Johan Leysen: Felice Beato
Toshie Ogura: Ume
Rina Yasima: O-Take
Noriko Sasaki: Hana
Kimu Nakamura: O-Kiku
Yoshi Oida: Matsukichi
Noriko Proett: O-Koma
Netherlands, 1:1.66, colour
(Drama, 1998, color, 99 min)
5 reels, Dolby SR
2850 metres, 25 f/p/s
http://www.pvhfilm.nl
Duration : 0:2:48
Posted in japanese photography book |
Tags: Art, delpeut, drama, film, huystee, japanese, pieter, van |
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NY Premiere
Friday, July 3, 6:15 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 6:30 PM
The July 3 screening is followed by the Exposure Party!
@ Japan Society
333 East 47th St.
NY NY 10017
Part of Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film
June 30 – July 12, 2009
http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts
Q&A with director Sion Sono!
Sensational indie filmmaker Sion Sono returns to JAPAN CUTS with this much anticipated, gripping four-hour hentai (pervert) epic brimming with absurd gore, cross-dressers, sin and love triangles while exposing the contradictions within human nature. Yu feels compelled to commit sins for his father, who has become a catholic priest and demands daily confessions from him. As a result, Yu joins a local gang and becomes a master of hentai photography. Amidst the chaos that ensues, he falls in love at first sight with Yoko, whom he later discovers will become his new step sister. With an evil religious cult leader determined to convert his family and steal his precious Yoko away, Yu must go to extreme lengths to save the love of his life.
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=6f265ab6
2008, 237 min., 35mm. Directed by Sion Sono. With Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima and Sakura Ando.
Duration : 0:2:11
http://www.japansociety.org
Part 3 of Q&A with director Sion Sono!
Sensational indie filmmaker Sion Sono returns to JAPAN CUTS with this much anticipated, gripping four-hour hentai (pervert) epic brimming with absurd gore, cross-dressers, sin and love triangles while exposing the contradictions within human nature. Yu feels compelled to commit sins for his father, who has become a catholic priest and demands daily confessions from him. As a result, Yu joins a local gang and becomes a master of hentai photography. Amidst the chaos that ensues, he falls in love at first sight with Yoko, whom he later discovers will become his new step sister. With an evil religious cult leader determined to convert his family and steal his precious Yoko away, Yu must go to extreme lengths to save the love of his life.
Part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
co-presented with the New York Asian Film Festival
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=6f265ab6
Duration : 0:9:45
Posted in new japanese photography |
Tags: Ai, and, Ando, answer, bolero, catholicism, city, club, contemporary, cuts, director, discussion, exposure, festival, film, hentai, Hikari, hour, japan, japanese, long, love, Mitsushima, movie, mukidashi, music, new, Nishijima, no, nyaff, panel, panty, pervert, Photo, photography, Q&A, question, ravel, religion, Sakura, shocking, sin, sins, sion, society, sono, story, suicide, Takahiro, Tokyo, video, york, 園, 子温 |
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Part 2 of Q&A with director Sion Sono!
Sensational indie filmmaker Sion Sono returns to JAPAN CUTS with this much anticipated, gripping four-hour hentai (pervert) epic brimming with absurd gore, cross-dressers, sin and love triangles while exposing the contradictions within human nature. Yu feels compelled to commit sins for his father, who has become a catholic priest and demands daily confessions from him. As a result, Yu joins a local gang and becomes a master of hentai photography. Amidst the chaos that ensues, he falls in love at first sight with Yoko, whom he later discovers will become his new step sister. With an evil religious cult leader determined to convert his family and steal his precious Yoko away, Yu must go to extreme lengths to save the love of his life.
Part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
co-presented with the New York Asian Film Festival
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=6f265ab6
Duration : 0:9:20
Posted in new japanese photography |
Tags: Ai, and, Ando, answer, bolero, catholicism, city, club, contemporary, cuts, director, discussion, exposure, festival, film, hentai, Hikari, hour, japan, japanese, long, love, Mitsushima, movie, mukidashi, music, new, Nishijima, no, nyaff, panel, panty, pervert, Photo, photography, Q&A, question, ravel, religion, Sakura, shocking, sin, sins, sion, society, sono, story, suicide, Takahiro, Tokyo, video, york, 園, 子温 |
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http://www.japansociety.org
Part 1 of Q&A with director Sion Sono!
Sensational indie filmmaker Sion Sono returns to JAPAN CUTS with this much anticipated, gripping four-hour hentai (pervert) epic brimming with absurd gore, cross-dressers, sin and love triangles while exposing the contradictions within human nature. Yu feels compelled to commit sins for his father, who has become a catholic priest and demands daily confessions from him. As a result, Yu joins a local gang and becomes a master of hentai photography. Amidst the chaos that ensues, he falls in love at first sight with Yoko, whom he later discovers will become his new step sister. With an evil religious cult leader determined to convert his family and steal his precious Yoko away, Yu must go to extreme lengths to save the love of his life.
Part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
co-presented with the New York Asian Film Festival
http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=6f265ab6
Duration : 0:8:45
Posted in new japanese photography |
Tags: Ai, and, Ando, answer, bolero, catholicism, city, club, contemporary, cuts, director, discussion, exposure, festival, fetish, film, hentai, Hikari, hour, japan, japanese, long, love, Mitsushima, movie, mukidashi, music, new, Nishijima, no, nyaff, panel, panty, pervert, Photo, photography, Q&A, question, ravel, religion, Sakura, sex, shocking, sin, sins, sion, society, sono, story, suicide, Takahiro, Tokyo, video, york, 園, 子温 |
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The Orlando Public Library hosts J-Fair, a celebration of all things Japan. Japanese art, photography, Koto performances, film screenings, exhibits, and, of course, sushi!
Duration : 0:1:38