For those of you in Tokyo

[drainer@mpinet.net]

I hope it pasted correctly, I don't have access to my computer right now, so this is strictly webmail!

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>From :  Yoko Fujioka <fujioka at tuj.ac.jp> 

JAPANESE CINEMA ECLECTICS

A Multi-part Series Devoted to Unexplored Tangents of the Japanese Film

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Hosted by Super Deluxe 

Sponsored by The Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS), Temple Universiy, Japan Campus

 



SWAY (Yureru)  

Written and Directed by Miwa Nishikawa, 2006, 120 mins.

 

An accident (murder?) on a rural rope bridge brings together past and present and two perhaps guilty brothers. 

But this winner of the Mainichi Concours ?Best Film? for 2006 is not a mystery 

except in the sense that life is a very mysterious business indeed.

http://www.yureru.com/top.html

 

Thursday, September 13th @ Super-Deluxe 

20:00 (start) / 1,500yen

Map: http://www.super-deluxe.com/map/



Curated by Donald Richie

 



 

Named by TIME magazine, "the dean of Japan's art critics," and acknowledged as the foremost authority on Japanese cinema, 

Donald Richie has also written widely - some forty books in all - on other aspects of the country and its people. 

The Inland Sea has been called a classic and its film version has won prizes at international film festivals 

as well as the National Geographic Earth Award. His Public People, Private People has been called "unforgettable" by Tom Wolfe and 

of his two collections of essays, A Lateral View and Partial Views, Susan Sontag has said:

 "Donald Richie writes about Japan with an unrivaled range, acuity, and wit.." In addition to writing a column for The Japan Times, 

lecturing around the world, and continuing to lend his distinctive voice to Japanese studies, 

Donald Richie teaches film at Temple University?s Japan Campus.

 

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For information, please contact: 

Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ICJS)

Temple University, Japan Campus 

Tel: 03-5441-9800   e-mail: icjs at tuj.ac.jp  web: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icjs