Tokyo: FCCJ Screening- ONE SHOT ONE KILL 7 June 2010

[Jonathan M. Hall]

Dear KineJapanners,

Karen Severns has announced another screening at the Foreign Correspondents' Press Club of Japan. 
The FCCJ is a private club, so please make a reservation with Karen ( kjs30 at gol.com)  if you'd like to attend. 
There is an informal salon-style gathering of KineJapanners in the Bar of the Club following the screening.

It promises to be an interesting discussion.

Jonathan M Hall


SPECIAL SCREENING: "ONE SHOT ONE KILL"
followed by a Q&A session with the director, Yukihisa Fujimoto
Monday, June 7, 2010. 7:00 p.m. 20th floor FCCJ
http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/5606

ONE SHOT ONE KILL  Japan, 2009. 108 minutes
In English with Japanese subtitles

Directed by Yukihisa Fujimoto
Produced by Asako Kageyama

Film courtesy of Office Kageyama

“At a time when the fate of the U.S. Marines’ Futenma air base in Okinawa Is
dominating headlines,” began a recent Kyodo News article, “a documentary is
shedding light on the troops and the training they undertake before living
on foreign soil.”

That documentary, One Shot One Kill, follows the 12-week training of fresh
U.S. Marine recruits on Parris Island, South Carolina, as these young men
and women, many of them from poor backgrounds, are transformed from
civilians into rifle-toting fighters. For the first 48 hours after their
arrival, they are deprived of sleep, forced to say goodbye to their
families, outfitted with uniforms and weapons, all the while enduring a
stream of abuse from their drill sergeants. They are trained in martial arts
— “You’re going to get hurt, so kill them, injure them. That is the proper
combat mindset, do we understand?” “Yes, sir!” — in bayonet use, and in
rifle handling, the pride of the Marines. Even in bed, they are forced to
recite Marine manuals at the top of their lungs.

By the end of their three months, 90% of male and 85% of female recruits
will graduate from boot camp, and go on to infantry school or other
training. During their service, 80% of them will be sent to the front lines,
including Iraq and Afghanistan, some of them in as early as 6 months. Every
year, 20,000 new Marines are created on Parris Island.

Director Yukihisa Fujimoto, a critic of the U.S. military presence in Japan,
has said he was motivated to make One Shot One Kill in an attempt to
understand the military mindset after spending substantial time in Okinawa.
“You would say ‘no’ when asked whether you can kill somebody,” he told
Kyodo, “But Marines do not. That means the Marines we spot in Japan come
from a world different from ours.”

Please join the Movie Committee for this special opportunity to view and
discuss One Shot One Kill.

Director Yukihisa Fujimoto, a veteran of social-interest and activist films,
began his career working with Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the filmmaker who famously
documented the Minamata Bay disaster. Fujimoto’s own films have been invited
to film festivals around the world, including his 1992 debut Japanese
Invasion/Malay Peninsula, Nature in Perpetual Motion (1998), Mining the Dark
(2000), Marines Go Home—Henoko, Maehyang-ri, Yausubetsu (2005), God Bless
America (2008) and God Help America (2009).

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