<html><body><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear kinejapan colleagues,</span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are planning a series of film events for March and April here in the Philadelphia area.</span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Highlights include a screening of the documentary A2-B-C with director Ian Ash and a guest lecture by Nagoya University Prof. Hideaki Fujiki, happening just after the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Philadelphia.</span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">--------</span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“Japan at the Brink: Precarity of Youth in Films of Disaster and Dystopia”</b></span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A series of four films presented at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute</b></span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>www.brynmawrfilm.org</b></span></p><p class="normal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Selected to represent a range of forms and moments in Japanese cinema history this series curated by local Tri-College students takes as its theme the depiction of Japanese youth during social upheaval in real and imagined worlds. “Precarity of youth” refers to children’s roles in these momentous times. Shifting between positions of vulnerability and influence, children in these films tell stories displaying contradictory points of hope and hopelessness. While the extensive record of natural and man-made disasters has altered Japan’s landscape, the impact of disasters on younger generations is revealed as a mechanism of social critique and potential transformation.</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Twenty Four Eyes</i></b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, March 3, 7:00 pm, Bryn Mawr Film Institute</b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">(NR) Japan - 2 hr 36 min</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">1954 · d. Kinoshita Keisuke <a href="http://www.criterion.com/films/745-twenty-four-eyes" data-mce-href="http://www.criterion.com/films/745-twenty-four-eyes">http://www.criterion.com/films/745-twenty-four-eyes</a></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Starring Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu, Toshiko Kobayashi, Yumeji Tsukioka</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Set in 1928, <i>Twenty-Four Eyes</i> follows Hisako Oshi, a young schoolteacher guiding twelve innocent students from childhood to adulthood as they are forced to face war and society’s problems. Through the eyes of these twelve children and their teacher, the film bears witness to fragility and moral responsibility amidst events and circumstances of World War II.</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Akira</i></b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, March 17, 7:00 pm, Bryn Mawr Film Institute</b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">(R) Japan – 2 hr 4 min</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">1988 · d. Ōtomo Katsuhiro <a href="http://www.funimation.com/shows/akira/anime" data-mce-href="http://www.funimation.com/shows/akira/anime"><span style="color: #1155cc;" data-mce-style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.funimation.com/shows/akira/anime</span></a></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Starring Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Tesshô Genda, and Hiroshi Ôtake</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">In this animated feature set in the dystopian world of Neo-Tokyo, a teenage outcast biker develops supernatural powers and retaliates against corrupt authorities but risks losing a part of himself. Filled with visceral imagery and dark themes full of adolescent angst, the film is a cult classic and widely recognized as a landmark of Japanese anime.</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Himizu</i></b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, March 24, 7:00 pm, Bryn Mawr Film Institute</b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan – 2 hr 9 min</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 · d. Sion Sono <a href="http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/himizu" data-mce-href="http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/himizu">http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/himizu</a></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Starring Shota Sometani, Fumi Nikaido, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshihi, Megumi Kagurazaka, and DenDen</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Based on Minoru Furuya’s manga of the same name <i>Himizu</i> illustrates consequences of cataclysmic disaster. With filming interrupted by 3.11, Sono’s vision of a post-disaster world became prophetic of actual chaotic circumstances. Told from the perspective of two teenagers the story of parental neglect and unspoken love asks if the corrupt may still be redeemed.</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>A2-B-C</i></b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monday, March 31, 7:00 pm, Bryn Mawr Film Institute</b></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan – 1 hr 11 min</span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">2013 d. Ian Thomas Ash <a href="http://www.a2documentary.com/" data-mce-href="http://www.a2documentary.com/">http://www.a2documentary.com/</a></span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Eighteen months after the 3.11 nuclear disaster, children of Fukushima Prefecture have begun developing thyroid abnormalities. Although declared harmless, the ambiguity of official medical test reports and the decrease in children’s overall health have left mothers to take radiation monitoring into their own hands. Please join Professor of Film, Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University) and Director Ian Thomas Ash for discussion and conversation after tonight’s screening.</span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" data-mce-style="page-break-before: always;"> </span><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><strong><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Related event:</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Audience and Action: Recent Citizen Activism and Cinema" </b></span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>a lecture by Hideaki Fujiki,</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Professor of Cinema, Nagoya University</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday, April 1, 4:30 pm</span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Center for Visual Culture</span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thomas 154</span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bryn Mawr College</span></p><p style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; margin: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br> <br> Professor Fujiki, the author of <i>Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan</i>, will give a talk on recent citizens' use of cinema as a tool for activism against nuclear technologies. In light of continued international impact and developing effects of the Fukushima 3.11 Triple Disaster, Fujiki will present on how screening events by citizens function as a vital point of convergence and divergence in the formation of multilayered networks in the anti-nuclear movement after the nuclear catastrophe. </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">-------</span></div><div><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">This series is an independent study project by</span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">the students of Bryn Mawr’s 360° Course Cluster</span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">“Perspectives on Sustainability: </span><span style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;">Disasters and Rebuilding in Japan,”</span></span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">funded by the Japan Foundation.</span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">The independent study is directed by Prof. Tienfong Ho (Bryn Mawr College/Temple University),</span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">with support from Profs. Will Gardner (Swarthmore College), Carola Hein (Bryn Mawr College),</span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomoko Sakomura (Swarthmore College), and Erin Schoneveld (Haverford College). </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://brynmawr.edu/360/previous/SustainabilityJapan.htm" data-mce-href="http://brynmawr.edu/360/previous/SustainabilityJapan.htm">http://brynmawr.edu/360/previous/SustainabilityJapan.htm</a></span></p><p class="normal" align="right" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="normal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p></div></div></body></html>