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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 34pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">The Foreign Correspondents' Club in Yurakucho will be screening Hitomi
Kuroki’s directorial debut, based on the bestselling novel “Nasty Piece of
Work” on May 23, with Kuroki appearing at the Q&A.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 34pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through
Screenings Curator Karen Severns: <u><a href="mailto:kjs30@gol.com">kjs30@gol.com</a>.</u><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,8)">FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">DESPERATE SUNFLOWERS (Iyana Onna)</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">Japan, 2016<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  
</span>105 minutes<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">   </span>Japanese with English
subtitles</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,8)">Followed by a Q&A </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">with director Hitomi Kuroki</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">An incorrigible conwoman teaches her uptight
lawyer a thing or two</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:11pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">Busy actress Hitomi Kuroki marks a bold and assured directorial debut
with this delightfully droll adaptation of a best-selling novel about polar
opposites who attract, even as they repel. Tetsuko Ishida (Yo Yoshida) has
always disliked her cousin Natsuko Kotani (Yoshino Kimura), ever since the
childhood morning she ruined her favorite dress with malicious glee. The girls
grow up and willingly lose track of each other… until Tetsuko, now a successful
lawyer, is hired by Natsuko, who turns out to be a natural-born swindler.
Yoshida and Kimura are perfectly matched in this clarion call to female
comradeship and empowerment, a moving drama that is cleverly punctuated by
unforgettably off-kilter comic moments and inspired staging. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:11pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">For more (in Japanese)</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"ArialMT",sans-serif">:<span style="color:red"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_VVx0XM&d=DQMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=CeaE6Y25aVvyaTkc0RI5YFkTm2SUycgLzJY0ZYzeD8Q&s=3i_wndHauMuLjDiyc7DXNlpWc-5u1WLrHqzsS5QqSJ8&e=">https://goo.gl/VVx0XM</a></span></p>

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