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color:#1F497D'>Sounds fantastic Jasper,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jasper
Sharp<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 October 2010 15:52<br>
<b>To:</b> kinejapan<br>
<b>Subject:</b> New UK Japanese film festival Zipangu Fest warms up for the
main event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Apologies
for posting this press release, but I figured there's going to be more people
on this mailing list interested in this UK based festival than on any other
mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:black'>Zipangu Fest</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Japanarchy in the UK</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>The first UK</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";
color:black'>‐</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>wide festival devoted to Japanese cinema November 23</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>28
2010 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:blue'>http://zipangufest.com</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Monday October 18th 2010</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>New Japanese film festival Zipangu Fest warms up for the main
event with a string of exclusive lectures and rare archive screenings across
the country</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>The first Zipangu Fest is delighted to announce more details for
its programme of events this autumn. The festival will run from November 23th
to 28th 2010 in London’s East End before touring the country. The full
programme will be announced by Festival Director Jasper Sharp at the Barbican’s
Japanese Halloween Shlockfest Double Bill of RoboGeisha and Big Tits Zombie 3D
+ Augmented City 3D on October 29th.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>To whet audience appetites, Mr Sharp will be presenting a lecture
exploring the history of independent jishu eiga filmmaking in Japan, followed
by an exclusive screening of Annyong Kimchee (1999). The film is Japanese</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Korean
filmmaker Tetsuaki Matsue’s personal enquiry into the importance of ethnic and
cultural roots and what it means to be Japanese. This event will first be held
at the Coventry University East Asian Film Society (CUEAFS) at 2pm on Wednesday
October 20th in Room G34 of the university’s Ellen Terry Building, and then at
the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at 7pm
on Friday November 12th, in the Brunei Gallery lecture theatre.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Zipangu Fest is also proud to announce a special presentation at
the 24th Leeds International Film Festival of Hiroshi Shimizu’s rarely</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>seen
early classic of independent Japanese cinema, Children of the Beehive (1948).
The film relates the journey of a group of war orphans (in real life all
orphans taken in and raised by the director) as they are taken under the wing
of a nameless soldier and set out across a shattered, post</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> war
landscape in search of a more certain future. The film will be showing first on
Saturday 6 November as part of a one</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>day symposium,
Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film, organised by the
University of Leeds, and then at 7pm on Monday November 8th at the Hyde Park
Picture House. Tickets are £6.50/£5.00.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Zipangu Fest has also put together a special programme of Japanese
underground animation in collaboration with the Encounters 16th International
Film Festival in Bristol. The Ero Guro Anime Night programme, a selection of
nightmarishly morbid animations from the Japanese underground, will screen at
the Cube Microplex on Friday November 19th at 8pm. Zipangu Fest festival
director Mr Sharp and Man</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";
color:black'>‐</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'> Eater Mountain sound designer Takuro Kochi will be there to
introduce the programme. The screenings will be followed by a Late Night
Japanese Pink Double Bill of Sexy Timetrip Ninjas (1984) and Groper Train:
Search for the Black Pearl (1984), two deliriously tasteless comic classics of
the pink film genre directed by Yojiro Takita, now famous as the winner of the
2008 Best Foreign Film Academy Award for the drama</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Departures. Doors open at 11pm. The Late Night Japanese Pink
Double Bill has been made possible by Pink Eiga.</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Leading up to Zipangu Fest’s much</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>awaited
London festival dates, Zipangu Fest has worked with Close</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Up to
present the Nippon Year Zero programme of 1960s Japanese experimental films on
Tuesday November 23th, at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Zipangu Fest has confirmed the festival venues of Café 1001 in
Brick Lane and the Genesis Cinema on Mile End Road. Guests can expect two full
nights of entertainment from 6pm on November 24th and 25th, for the modest
ticket price of £5.00 per evening. Zipangu Fest will launch into full swing for
the weekend from November 26th to 28th at the Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel.
Tickets will be £7.50/£5.00.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Following this, a selection of the Zipangu Fest festival programme
will be screened at the Arnolfini in Bristol between December 16th and 19th,
with further venues to be announced at a later date.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Jasper Sharp comments: “I’m really excited about these upcoming
events across the country, because the goal with Zipangu Fest was always to
reach out to new audiences and introduce Japanese cinema to as wide and diverse
a crowd as possible. We’re really happy to be partnering up with so many
respected film festivals and other organisations to this end, and I really hope
this is something we will be able to expand on in the future. I also can’t wait
to announce the main programme. We’ve got a really strong set of films and a
host of guests already confirmed, and there’s going to be plenty more going on
around the actual festival dates than just the screenings.”</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>For further press information please contact:
Michelle@zipangufest.com</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>Visit the Zipangu Fest website at </span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://zipangufest.com</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>. </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> END </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:black'>‐</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>About Zipangu Fest</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>The first UK</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";
color:black'>‐</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>wide festival devoted to Japanese film, Zipangu Fest will introduce
works new and old, previously unseen by mainstream UK film audiences, to
demonstrate the many identities of Japan as depicted by some of the country’s
most exciting and revered talents.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
color:black'>For its main event this year, Zipangu Fest will be holding around
15 screenings and other related events at venues across London’s vibrant East
End. Cinema venues include the Barbican, Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel, Café
1001 in Brick Lane and the Working Men’s Club in Bethnal Green. The main body
of film events will take place in London from November 23rd to 28th 2010, with
regional events currently arranged in Bristol, Leeds and Coventry, and more to
be confirmed.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p><