Children of Revolution at FCCJ

Eija Niskanen eija.niskanen at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 04:08:23 EST 2011


Dear KineJapanners,

We have another screening opportunity at the Foreign Correspondents'
Club of Japan on Monday, Dec. 5, followed by a Q&A with the director
and the star, whose mother is the Japanese Red Army leader, Shigenobu
Fusako.

The FCCJ is a private club, so you must reserve through Karen Severns
if you’d like to attend the screening: kjs30 at gol.com

http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/7063

SPECIAL SCREENING
Followed by a Q&A session with director Shane O’Sullivan and star May Shigenobu

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5   7 pm  20th floor

CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
Ireland/UK/Germany 2011  92 minutes  In English/German/Japanese with
English/Japanese subtitles

Director-producer: Shane O'Sullivan
Starring:  Ulrike Meinhof, Fusako Shigenobu, May Shigenobu, Bettina
Röhl, Astrid Proll,
		Masao Adachi, Klaus Rainer Röhl, Leila Khaled, Takaya Shiomi, Kyoko Ohtani

Film courtesy of Transmission Films

With capitalism in crisis and revolution sweeping the Arab world, this
acclaimed documentary revisits the period following the student
upheavals of the late 1960s, when Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu
emerged to become the leading female revolutionaries of their time,
and asks: What were they fighting for and what have we learned?

Appalled by the killing in Vietnam, among other injustices (in
Shigenobu’s case, her activism began with protests against student
tuition hikes), the two women eventually sought to destroy capitalist
power through world revolution, as leaders of the German Baader
Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. Both groups headed to the
Middle East to train with Palestinian freedom fighters and attack
imperialism, and although Meinhof died in prison in 1976, Shigenobu
remained at large until her arrest in 2000 upon her return to Japan.

Deploying riveting archival footage and revealing interviews,
"Children of the Revolution" peels away the layers of historical dross
to get behind the chilling Wanted poster images of these notorious
women, providing fresh insights into their lives through their
daughters, Bettina Röhl and May Shigenobu. On the run or kidnapped
when their mothers went underground, May and Bettina have emerged from
extraordinary childhoods to forge successful careers as journalists
and authors. In this balanced, illuminating film, their eloquent
testimony provides a unique perspective on a period of global upheaval
that often feels very close to today.

Please join the Movie Committee for this Must See special screening
and post-screening Q&A. Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7tgJ06BHe4

Prior to the screening, please join Mr. O’Sullivan and Ms. Shigenobu
for a glass of wine and light snacks at our Meet the Filmmakers
Cocktail Party, from 6:00 – 6:55 pm. The cocktail party is ¥1,260
(incl. tax). Space is limited to the first thirty (30) people to sign
up. Cancellations received after noon on the day of the screening will
be charged in full.

All movie screenings are private, noncommercial events restricted to
FCCJ members and their guests.
Karen Severns, Edwin Karmiol, Movie Committee

-- 
Eija Niskanen
080-3479-8475
Kichijoji Honcho 4-12-6
Musashino-shi
Tokyo 180-0004



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