<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Dear KineJapanners,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">The Foreign Correspondents' Club in Yurakucho will be screening the festival-buzzy new film by writer-director-producer-actress Kiki Sugino, followed by a Q&A session with Gugino and her costar, Munetaka Aoki, on February 23.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Screenings Curator Karen Severns: <span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="mailto:kjs30@gol.com" class="">kjs30@gol.com</a>.</span> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Please make sure you book by February 21.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(6, 6, 6);" class=""><b class="">FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING</b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.5px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 at 7:00 pm</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.5px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.3px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">SNOW WOMAN (Yuki Onna)</b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.3px; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Japan, 2016 95 minutes Japanese with English subtitles</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.5px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(6, 6, 6);" class="">Followed by a Q&A session with director-star Kiki Sugino and costar Munetaka Aoki</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.5px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.3px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;" class="">Join the Film Committee for an alluring, elliptical retelling of a haunting tale:<b class=""> </b>Kiki Sugino’s TIFF Competition standout, “Snow Woman.” The writer-director-star leads a stellar cast (and crew) in her gorgeously lensed reinterpretation of the oft-told “Woman of the Snow,” from Lafcadio Hearn’s 1904 anthology “Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.”<b class=""> </b>Shot in Sugino’s home prefecture of Hiroshima, but set in a timeless era when mountaineers sleep in huts under straw mats while factory workers engage in the production of modern electrical products, Sugino’s stylized, enigmatic work is daringly short on dialog and long on metaphor. There are scenes of such trancelike beauty and mesmerizing mystery, that the viewer soon stops puzzling over the many riddles, and succumbs to the film’s stately pace and poetic power. Sugino will be on hand with her costar, Munetaka Aoki, for the Q&A session following the screening. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.3px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.5px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.3px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="color: #060606" class=""><b class="">For more</b>: </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__snowwomanfilm.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=txtLYEMB5JB1yoOyWh8V4In5nT3W5qccrngS1vATxnk&s=ZiPg_EH27qJ_5fgLbhlPok-ef0NsSt5XExk74nR44-U&e=" class="">http://snowwomanfilm.com/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -22.3px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>