YIDFF in Tokyo

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival will be holding a 
special series of screenings of its films in Tokyo from April 25 to May 8 
at BOX Higashinakano.  Films from previous festivals as well as some of 
the major works shown at YIDFF 97 will be presented.  Most are 
non-Japanese works, but some of the Japanese films to be shown include:

Hara Masato All Night Special
A music/image performance by the director of _20th Century Nostalgia_.

Mothers
Directed by Kurokawa Yoshimasa (while in prison for a bombing)
Japan/120 min/Japanese
About the mothers of a terrorist group that bombed a Mitsubishi office.

YAMA--Attack to Attack
Directed by Sato Mitsuo
Japan/110 min/English sub.
A documentary about Sanya.  Both directors were murdered by yakuza during 
production.

The Moments We Lived
Directed by Watanabe Yoshimitsu
A former bosozoku member films his former colleagues.

A Movie Capital
Directed by Iizuka Toshio
Japan/98 min/Japanese with English sub.
The Ogawa Productions film on YIDFF '89.

Living on the River Agano
Directed by Sato Makoto
Japan/115 min/Japanese with English sub.
On Minamata disease in Niigata.  Subtitles by KineJapan's Abe Markus 
Nornes!

"A"
Directed by Mori Tatsuya
Japan/135 min
Tokyo premiere of the controversial documentary on Aum Shinrikyo that 
places the camera on the side of the Aum.

A Port in Vain
Directed by Yamazaki Mikio
Japan/80 min
Yamazaki's fictional documentary won an award in New Asian Currents 97.

Memory of the Soil
Directed by Shiozaki Toshiko
UK/47 min/Japanese with English sub.
A documentary on Japanese potters shot by a Japanese documentarist 
studying in England.

I also STRONGLY recommend:

    RELICS--EINSTEIN'S BRAIN

The hilarious BBC documentary about the befuddled Japanese professor 
Sugimoto Kenji's search for the brain of the man himself.

Details are as follows:


YAMAGATA International Documentary Film Festival
  Tokyo

April 25 - May 8, 1998

		Tickets: ?1,100 in advance (at Box Higashinakano, Ticket Pia, and 
Ticket Saison)
			 ?1,300 (students), ?1,000 (over 60) at the door
	      		 ?5,000 for book of 5 tickets
	         		 ?8,000 for book of 10 tickets
   ???????		*One ticket valid for only one screening.
		Tickets for Hara Masato All Night Special: ?2,500 in advance
						           	    ?2,800 at the door
		Tickets for "A": ?1,700 at the door 
??????????	*People will be admitted to  "A" in order based on 
the numbers handed out starting at 12:00 pm 				on the day of the 
screening.
		Place: Box Higashinakano
		For details call: Box Higashinakano at 03-5389-6780

 ?schedule?

Sat. April 25
11:00 - Alpine Ballad
Directed by Erich Langjahr
Switzeland/100 min/Swiss German with Japanese sub.
13:00 - Private Wars
Directed by Nick Deocampo
Philippines/67 min/English, Hiligaynon with Japanese sub.
14:20 - Homesick Eyes
Directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming
Taiwan/85 min/Thai, English with Japanese sub.
16:00 - Fragments Jerusalem
Directed by Ron Havilio
Israel/358 min/English, Hebrew with Japanese sub.
24:00 - Hara Masato All Night Special

Sun. April 26
11:00 - London Brief
Directed by Jon Jost
USA/91 min/English
13:00 - Africas: How Are You Doing with the Pain?
Directed by Raymond Depardon
France/164 min/French with Japanese sub.
16:10 - Paper Heads
Directed by Dusan Hanak
Slovakia/96 min/Slovak, Czech with Japanese sub.
18:00 - Amsterdam Global Village
Directed by Johan van der Keuken
The Netherlands/245 min/Dutch, English, Russian etc. with Japanese sub.

Mon. April 27
11:00 - When Mother Comes Home for Christmas...
Directed by Nilita Vachani
India, Greece, Germany/107 min/Sinhala, English with Japanese sub.
13:10 - Lines from the Heart
Directed by Christina Olofson
Sweden/75 min/Swedish with Japanese sub.
14:40 - Canticle of the Stones
Directed by Michel Khleifi
Belgium/105 min/Arabic with Japanese sub.
16:40 - Losses to be Expected
Direced by Ulrich Seidl
Austria/118 min/German with Japanese sub.
19:00 - Metal and Melancholy
Directed by Heddy Honigmann
The Netherlands/80 min/ Spanish with Japanese sub.
20:50 - Mothers
Directed by Kurokawa Yoshimasa
Japan/120 min/Japanese


Tue. April 28
11:00 - The Eye above the Well
Directed by Johan van der Keuken
The Neterlands/91 min/Dutch, Malayalam with Japanese sub.
12:50 - Children of Mini-Japan
Directed by Chalam Bennurakar
India/60 min/Tamil with Japanese sub.
14:10 - In the Name of God
Directed by Anand Patwardhan
India/91 min/English, Hindi with Japanese sub.
16:00 - Father, Son and Holy War
Directed by Anand Patwardhan
India/120 min/Hindi, English with Japanese sub.
18:20 - Memories and Dreams
Directed by Lynn-Maree Milburn
Australia/58 min/English with Japanese sub.
19:40 - Relics?Einstein's Brain
Directed by Kevin Hull
England/65 min/English with Japanese sub.
21:00 - YAMA?Attack to Attack
Directed by Sato Mitsuo
Japan/110 min/English sub.

Wed. April 29
11:00 - Choice and Destiny
Directed by Tsipi Reibenbach
Israel/118 min/Yiddish with Japanese sub.
13:20 - Black Harvest
Directed by Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson
Australia/90 min/English, Pidgin and Temboka with Japanese sub.
15:10 - Stubborn Dreams
Directed by Bela Szobolits
Hungary/93 min/Hungarian with Japanese sub.
17:00 - The Crossroad Street
Latvia/85 min/Latvian with Japanese sub.
18:50 - Route One / USA
Directed by Rober Kramer
France/103 min/English with Japanese sub.

Thu. April 30
11:00 - Over the Threshold
Directed by Christine Lloyd-Fitt & Tezuka Yoshi
England/60 min/English, Japanese with Japanese sub.
12:20 - Once There Were Seven Simeons
Directed by Herz Frank & Vladimir Eisner
Russia/89 min/Russian with Japanese sub.
14:10 - Nobody Listened
Directed by Nestor Almendors & Jorge Ulla
USA/117 min/Spanish, English with Japanese sub.
16:50 - The Square
Directed by Zhang Yuan & Duan Jinchuan
China/100 min/Chinese with Japanese sub.
18:30 - Dreams of Ice
Directed by Ignacio Aguero
Chile/56 min/Spanish with Japanese sub.
19:50 - One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train
Directed by Ignacio Aguero
Chile/58 min/Spanish with Japanese sub.
21:10 - The Moments We Lived
Directed by Watanabe Yoshimitsu
Japan/86 min

Fri. May 1
11:00 - Locked Up Time
Directed by Sibylle Schonemann
Germany/90 min/German with Japanese sub.
12:50 - Screenplay:The Times
Directed by Barbara & Winfried Junge
Germany/284 min/German with Japanese sub.
18:00 - Last Farewell USSR
Directed by Alexander Rodnyansky
Ukraine/60 min/Russian with Japanese sub.
19:20 - Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
Directed by Helena Solberg
Brazil, USA/92 min/English, Portuguese with Japanese sub.
21:10 - Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story
Directed by Arthur Elgort
USA/81 min/English with Japanese sub.

Sat. May 2
11:00 - A Movie Capital
Directed by Iizuka Toshio
Japan/98 min/Japanese with English sub.
13:00 - Living on the River Agano
Directed by Sato Makoto
Japan/115 min/Japanese with English sub.
15:10 - In the Land of the Deaf
Directed by Nicolas Philibert
France/99 min/French with Japanese sub.
17:10 - Out of Phoenix Bridge
Directed by Li Hong
China/110 min/Chinese with Japanese sub.
19:20 - "A"
Directed by Mori Tatsuya
Japan/135 min
23:00 - Fregments Jerusalem

Sun. May 3
11:00 - Amsterdam Global Village
15:40 - Homesick Eyes
17:20 - Private Wars
19:00 - A Port in Vain
Directed by Yamazaki Mikio
Japan/80 min

Mon. May 4
11:00 - Lines from the Heart
12:30 - When Mother Comes Home for Christmas...
14:40 - Alpine Ballad
16:40 - London Brief
18:30 - Neon Goddesses
Directed by Yu Lik-wai
Belgium, Hong Kong/46 min/Chinese with Japanese sub.
 - Devil Bridge
Directed by Temirbek Birnazarov
Kyrgyz/10 min/No dialogue
 - Lullaby
Directed by Ernest Abdyjaparov
Kyrgyz/10 min/No dialogue
 - Memory of the Soil
Directed by Shiozaki Toshiko
UK/47 min/Japanese with English sub.

Tue. May 5
11:00 - Africas: How Are You Doing With the Pain?
14:10 - Paper Heads
16:00 - Pictures of the Old World
Directed by Dusan Hanak
Slovakia/117 min/English with Japanese sub.
15:30 - Dreams of Changjiang
Directed by Feng Yan
China/85 min/Chinese with Japanese sub.
19:10 - Chen Tsi-gen and His Neighbors
Directed by Wu Yii-feng
China/90 min/Chinese with Japanese narration

Wed. May 6
11:00 - Nobody Listened
13:20 - The Crossroad Street
15:10 - Stubborn Dreams
17:00 - Metal and Melancholy
18:40 - Crumb
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
USA/119 min/English with Japanese sub.

Thu. May 7
11:00 - Black Harvest
12:50 - Losses to be Expected
15:10 - Carmen Miranda
17:00 - Texas Tenor
18:40 - Choice and Destiny

Fri. May 8
11:00 - The Square
13:00 - Route One / USA
17:30 - Living on the River Agano
19:40 - Relics?Einstein's Brain













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