Screening: Ganbatte ikimasshoi

[Ito, Michiko]

Dear Kine-Japaners,

The Center for East Asian Studies and Spencer Museum of Art at the
University of Kansas  cosponsor 2002 Asian Film Festival and will screen a
Japanese film, GANBATTE IKIMASSHOI (GIVE IT ALL) at Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union, on February 17, 2pm.  Free admission.  The following is a
short introductory information of this film.

GIVE IT ALL (original Japanese title: Ganbatte Ikimasshoi)
Director: Itsumichi Isomura
Year: 1998
Running time: 120 min.

The film is set in Matsuoka, a small town in Shikoku, in 1976. When
fifteen-year-old Etsuko learns that there is no rowing team for girls at her
new school, she decides to start one. The four other girls she recruits for
the team are absolute non-athletes and have no enthusiasm for the water. Not
surprisingly, Etsuko's team comes in dead last in their first race and the
girls become the laughingstock of the school. This film about the
transformation through sport of five adolescents of the so-called "Age of
Three Nothings" ("Giving nothing, caring for nothing, being moved by
nothing") struck a deep chord in Japan and won 25 film festival awards in
l998. 

Produced by Masayuki Suo, creator of the international hit, "Shall We
Dance?" Soundtrack by the top Korean singer-songwriter, Lee-tzsche creates a
poetic accompaniment to the beautiful vistas of the island landscape. 

For more detail, please visit:

http://www.ganba.to/


If you live near KU, please come to see the film!


Michiko Ito
Japanese Studies Librarian
East Asian Library
University of Kansas Libraries
Watson Library
1425 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence KS 60045-7544
TEL: (785) 864-4669
FAX: (785) 864-5311