<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><div>"Slow Boat to China"</div><div>Director Kaizo Hayashi talks about filmmaking and Japan's search of new cultural identity through the interaction with other Asian film cultures at Seikei University.</div><div> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Place: Main Hall 2nd Floor, Seikei University, Tokyo</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Time: June 9th 2009 from 4:30 to 6 PM.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">(Map of Seikei attached as following</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="x-msg://15/">http://www.seikei.ac.jp/gakuen/access.html</a> )</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div>Brief Description:</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The title of the event is "Slow Boat to China: In Search of Japan's Cultural Identity" and it consists of two parts. In the first part Kaizo Hayashi will share his experience as an independent filmmaker working in both Japan and Pan-Asian regions. The second part would be a dialogue exploring the topics related to Japan's search of new cultural identity from perspectives within Asia (instead of the West) by Kaizo Hayashi, Toshifumi Miyawaki and Leo C. Chen. </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">(Please see attachment of the event poster.)</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div></body></html>