[KineJapan] Zen and Bones (new documentary)

Fri Apr 1 03:55:04 EDT 2016

Dear Lorenzo,

Thanks for your interest. 
DVD and online release would be coming up after the Japanese theatrical
release (much later this year). 
This version is just brand new. The LA screenings are mainly a thank you to
the friends, family, and community that helped this film be made. 
The trailer will be available in a week. Asako 

Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:38:13 +0000
From: Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano <ljth2006 at gmail.com>
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Zen and Bones (new documentary)
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Looks great!
There will be a DVD, Bluray or online commercial release?
Best,

Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano Profesor Titular / Professor Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicaci?n Despacho 22, Edificio
Departamental Camino del Molino s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada (Madrid, Spain)
lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es 34-657565507

El vie., 1 abr. 2016 a las 9:24, Fujioka Asako (<fujiokasako at gmail.com>)
escribi?:
Dear Kinejapaners,

Announcing the North American premiere screenings of ZEN AND BONES????????
????
Japan / 2016 /126 min / in English and Japanese with director Takayuki
Nakamura and Gretchen Mittwer in attendance / special thanks to Duncan
Williams and CJRC

ZEN AND BONES is a kaleidoscopic portrait of an unconventional 93-year-old
Japanese-American Zen monk, his dramatic history and turbulent family life.
Fiction and animation add to tell fascinating stories about his childhood in
Yokohama, his wartime in the U.S. Nikkei camps, as a 1960s American
dad-turned-Zen monk, and his lifelong passion for movies. This is director
Takayuki Nakamura's second feature after YOKOHAMA MARY (2005).

The 32nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
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Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at USC
http://dornsife.usc.edu/events /site/192/638030/ FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 7:00 PM
Leavey Library Auditorium University of Southern California, University Park
Campus Admission free / please RSVP see website

At his seasoned age, Henry should be living his remaining days in peace in
his Kyoto temple residence. But his passion and dream is to make a movie.
For years, he has been pitching his project Red Shoes to Kyoto movie studios
and financiers. Apparently, the Buddhist search for nothingness does not
interfere with this obsession of his.

Born in 1918 in Yokohama to an American father who ran United Artists? Far
East Office and a former geisha, Henry grew up in Japan. At 22, he travels
to America by ship to search for his father. Soon World War II breaks out
and he is detained in concentration camps for enemy Japanese. He marries
Sachiko and has three children, two born in the camps. In 1961, he returns
to Japan and becomes a Zen Buddhist monk and emissary for the Urasenke
Tradition of Tea.

Henry falls ill in 2012 and is admitted to the hospital. The documentary
crew continues to film, uncovering evidence and gathering testimonies about
his extraordinary past from movie moguls, U.S. government files, and
interviews with Zen masters. The truth behind Henry?s obsession for
filmmaking slowly takes shape. Meanwhile, actors play out Henry?s life as a
young man, and an animated version of Henry?s dream film comes true.

Director / Takayuki Nakamura ????
Born in 1975, Nakamura?s home town is Yokohama. He started his career in
1997 as an assistant director at Shochiku?s Ofuna studios. From 1999 to
2001, he studied at the Beijing Film Academy majoring in film performing
arts and documentary theory. After returning to Japan, he worked under
Chinese filmmaker Li Ying on feature documentaries Dream Cuisine (co-pro
with NHK) and the controversial Yasukuni. He has worked extensively in TV
documentary and corporate films.
Yokohama Mary (2005), awarded over 11 film prizes in Japan, was his
theatrical debut film as director. It was released in over 50 cinemas
nationwide and grossed over 1 million dollars. He currently teaches at the
Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Zen and Bones is his second feature.

++++++
Asako Fujioka
Associate Producer
ZEN AND BONES / a film by Takayuki Nakamura zenandbones01 at gmail.com

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