Love and loss in the land of the rising sun
JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING FILM PROGRAMME QUAD, DERBY, FEBRUARY 8-10
A WEEKEND of new Japanese Cinema comes to Quad in Derby on Friday to Sunday.
The season, entitled ‘People Still Call It Love: Passion, Affection and Destruction in Japanese Cinema’ includes eleven films, with a love theme.
The films include recent releases, anime and classics and look at how the theme of love has remained an inspirational source for the country’s filmmakers. Films are screened in Japanese with English subtitles.
The films are:
TREMBLE ALL YOU WANT (12A) follows a young office worker who has a secret crush on her former junior high school classmate, but then is asked out by her work colleague. She throws a reunion party and is then faced with a choice, dreams verses reality. Shows Friday at 6.15pm.
MY FRIEND “A” (18): Masuda is a previously successful journalist but after one of his articles unexpectantly causes tragedy, he ends up working at a factory. When he suspects his colleague is a convicted murderer, he sees a way back into the world of journalism. Screens on Friday, February 8, 8.40pm.
WHERE THE CHIMNEYS ARE SEEN (12A): Heinosuke Gosho’s 1953 film of post-war marriage and family life shot on 35mm film. Saturday at 11.00am.
THICKER THAN WATER (15) is a drama about a love-hate relationship between two pairs of siblings. Saturday at 1.30pm.
DAD’S LUNCH BOX (PG) is based on a true story. A newly divorced dad starts preparing his teenage daughter’s lunchbox - through trial and error the cooking brings them closer together. This story broke on Twitter and was retweeted 80,000 times. Saturday at 4.15pm.
DESTINY: THE TALE OF KAMAKURA (PG) is about a woman who moves to a new town after marrying a mysterywriter. One morning she disappears leaving her husband to embark on a journey to the Underworld to bring her home. Saturday, 6.25pm.
THE SCYTHIAN LAMB (15) follows six people who move to the declining seaport of Uobuka, where a city official is shocked to find out they are all former murder suspects. Saturday, 9.00pm.
HER LOVE BOILS BATHWATER (12A) is the story of a single mother who receives a diagnosis of a terminal illness, so she aims to use the brief amount of time she has left to bring back her husband, restart the family’s bathhouse business and set her daughter on the path to independence. Sunday, February 10, 1:25pm.
TONIGHT, AT THE MOVIES (12A) is set in 1960s where an aspiring young director spends his days at his favourite theatre watching old black and white films. One day lighting strikes the theatre and the princess of his dreams steps from the screen into his world. Sunday, 4.00pm.
PENGUIN HIGHWAY (12A) is a brand new anime getting its first UK screenings. A young boy investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village. Sunday, 6.35pm.
YURIGOKORO (18). A diary is discovered in the study of a dying father. Within its pages is a passage confessing to a murder in the past. Is it fact or fiction? Sunday, 9.00pm
Ticket prices: £9.50/£7.00 concessions, or see all eleven screenings for £50.00/£45.00 concessions and £35.00 for 16-25 year olds. Book online www.derbyquad.co.uk from QUAD Box Office: 01332 290606.