[KineJapan] Sending Off premier in Tokyo

[Kyoko Omori]

Dear KineJapan members,

(Someone else might have already posted the information — If so, I apologize for the redundancy!)

With the permission of the documentary filmmaker, Ian Thomas Ash, I provide below information about an upcoming event at the National Film Archive in Tokyo. Please contact Ian < documentingian at gmail.com <mailto:documentingian at gmail.com>> with any inquiries you may have.

Best,

Kyoko
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Kyoko Omori

Associate Professor of Japanese
East Asian Languages and Literatures Department
Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323, USA


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> Documentary about death and dying in Japan to hold premier in Tokyo on September 7
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> The Japan Premier of the documentary「おみおくり〜Sending Off〜」, about an amazing home care doctor and her team of nurses in a small town in rural Japan, will be held on September 7 at 14:30, the opening day of the Pia Film Festival.    Taking place at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, Dr. Konta, the film's subject, and the film's director, Ian Thomas Ash, will be present to take part in a post-screening discussion.
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> The documentary received the Nippon Docs Award (prize for best documentary) at the World Premier in Frankfurt's Nippon Connection Film Festival, the world's largest festival of Japanese film.  More about the documentary is on the official website: http://www.sendingoffdoc.com/ <http://www.sendingoffdoc.com/>
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> The film will screen with English subtitles, and more information about the screening on September 7 is here (in Japanese):
> https://pff.jp/41st/lineup/sugoi.html <https://pff.jp/41st/lineup/sugoi.html?fbclid=IwAR1TCkndOaaX-rE1IX9xQVvBX5SFAVg6zwv1_euNrdgbCgRfoIXunCRKN_w>
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> On Aug 13, the documentary and director Ian Thomas Ash were featured on NHK World's J-FLICKS, a program about the Japanese film industry.  That episode is now available to watch for free On Demand until Aug 27 (WATCH <https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2036056/?fbclid=IwAR2NtmkdIyJzU_VLt7_eveNEZJiTOWalyR4_UzPguL1MYjUxLuIoRyb1wQU>).
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> www.documentingian.com <http://www.documentingian.com/>

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