<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#FFFDF0" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: teal; ">Please Mark your Calendar!<br></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(167, 46, 35); "><br></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(190, 35, 12); ">JAPANESE FILM DIRECTOR KOREEDA HIROKAZU AT YALE UNIVERSITY<br></span></b><br><b>The Japanese filmmaker Koreeda Hirokazu, whose films such as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Maborosi</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Nobody Knows</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have captured major awards at Cannes, Berlin, and other festivals, is visiting Yale to present his works. Active in both fiction film and documentary, in directing and producing, Koreeda will also hold two workshops.<br></b><br><b><span style="color: teal; ">FILM SCREENINGS </span></b><span style="color: teal; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br></span>Withney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street<br> <br><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Friday, February 25, 2011, 7:00 PM<br><span style="color: rgb(190, 35, 12); ">Without Memory</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1996, 84 min., video)<br></span><b><i><span style="color: teal; ">In Japanese with English subtitles<br></span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">A penetrating film about a man who came to suffer from severe memory loss (Wernicke's Encephalopathy) due to medical malpractice. A recording medium confronts the condition of inability to remember.<br></span><br><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Saturday, February 26, 2011, 7:00 PM<br><span style="color: rgb(190, 35, 12); ">Still Walking<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">(2008, 114 min., 35mm)<br></span><b><i><span style="color: teal; ">In Japanese with English subtitles<br></span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">Grown children visit their elderly parents in the countryside to commemorate the tragic passing of an elder son. Mixing humor and subtle drama, this fictional work exemplifies Koreeda’s delicate depiction of the tenuousness of familial bonds in the face of death.<br></span><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Both screenings will conclude with a Q & A with the filmmaker<br></span></i></b><span style="color: teal; "><br></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: teal; ">WORKSHOPS<br></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">Two workshops will be held on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Friday at 12 noon</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Saturday at 12 noon.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The first will primarily be directed at undergraduates and conducted with an interpreter; the second is directed at graduate students and will be held in Japanese.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color: rgb(190, 35, 12); ">Registration is required<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>please email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="anne.letterman@yale.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">anne.letterman@yale.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color: rgb(190, 35, 12); ">by Tuesday February 22, 2011<br></span></b></span><br><b><i>Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Film Studies Center, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures<br></i></b><br>For more information <b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: blue; "><a href="http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://eastasianstudies.research.yale.edu</a><br><a href="http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/eastasianstudies/week/20101101/All/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/eastasianstudies/week/20110225/All/</a></span></u></b></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>