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<p style="margin:0cm 34pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:11pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">The Foreign Correspondents' Club in Yurakucho will welcome screen
legend Tatsuya Nakadai on May 31, with director Masahiro Kobayashi, with their
new film “Umibe no Lear.” The screening will be followed by a Q&A session
with both men.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 34pt 0.0001pt 0cm;line-height:11pt" class="MsoNormal"><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:karenseverns@gmail.com">karenseverns@gmail.com</a>.</u><span> </span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:11pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">Be sure to reserve at least two days before the
screening, as seats are limited.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,8)">FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">WEDNESDAY,
MAY 31 at 7:00 pm</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:13pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">LEAR ON THE SHORE (Umibe no Lear)</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">Japan, 2017<span> </span>105 minutes<span> </span>Japanese with English subtitles</span></p>
<p style="line-height:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,8)">Followed by a Q&A session with screen legend Tatsuya
Nakadai</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,8)"> and </span></p>
<p style="line-height:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"helvetica",sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,8)">director Masahiro Kobayashi</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"helvetica",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">In this lean, elegiac tragicomedy, Chokitsu Kuwabatake (Nakadai) is
trying to escape from the luxury nursing home where his daughter Yukiko (Mieko
Harada) and son-in-law Yukio (Hiroshi Abe) have stashed him, after forcing him
to write a will leaving them everything. Chokichi has dementia and only
fleetingly recalls their betrayal. But he is a thespian to the core, and can
still recite great chunks of dialog from heralded performances (like his King
Lear). He is determined to find his adoring audience, wherever they are. When
he comes across Nobuko (Haru Kuroki), on the beach, he isn’t sure if she is an
assistant, a fellow actor or, as she claims, his estranged younger daughter.
Does it matter? Chokitsu is free to discourse at will, and that he does,
delivering what may be his penultimate performance. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height:11pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">For more </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"arialmt",sans-serif">(in Japanese): <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__umibenolear.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=9TXshbCZXD5Ct714N1CNEWKXYre6UCmEpq9-RWZ9SRg&s=JKNsLeSLGDzys_WDeN5wO6oHPkDb7H96RfGV_M22q3A&e=">http://umibenolear.com</a></span></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">posted by Eija Niskanen<br></div><div class="gmail_signature">University of Helsinki<br></div><div class="gmail_signature">+358-50-355 3189<br><br></div>
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