Neo-Eiga

9/17/04 to 9/19/04

Peep “TV” Show |September 17 |

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Past Films

Red Persimmons
- Sunday, September 19 2pm
An elegaic documentary on the vanishing way of life of Japanese persimmon cultivators.
Women in the Mirror
- Sunday, September 19 4pm
Introduced by Daisuke Miyao. Three generations of women come to grips with Hiroshima's legacy in a meditative, moving work.
A Woman's Work
- Sunday, September 19 7pm
Two couples win and lose love's tangled games in this film reminiscent of Mike Leigh's comedies.
Ramblers
- Saturday, September 18 7pm
Lecture: Japanese Cinema Now
- Saturday, September 18 3:30pm
Admission free. Author and NYU professor Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto discusses contemporary Japanese film.
Shara
- Saturday, September 18 5pm
The director of Cannes awardee Suzaku returns to her hometown for this story of a family overcoming an unbearable loss. "Joyful Japanese values shine brightly."-Variety
Akame 48 Waterfalls
- Saturday, September 18 8:50
This CinemaScope romance recalls Edo-era theater in its doomed love between poet and prostitute. With Shinobu Terajima.
Bokunchi-My House
- Friday, September 17 7pm
A cute kid and his elder sister make ends meet in a backwater village of glue-sniffing gangsters and missing parents. Warm, nostalgic, but wise enough to remember the thorns amidst the roses of childhood.
Peep “TV” Show
- Friday, September 17 9:30pm
This dizzying critique of image media, Internet diaries, reality news, and surveillance cameras roared out of Shibuya's pop-and-punk underground to win Rotterdam's International Critics Prize. Are you watching, or being watched?

Neo-Eiga

9/17/04 to 9/19/04

Our fourth neo-eiga festival brings a new film by a major sixties New Wave director, Kiju Yoshida, together with works by proven younger talents and an influential independent film producer-director. These recent films all explore contemporary characters and modern dilemmas, but represent varied relationships to the past; the perspective of history contrasts with the eternal present of the Internet. Join us for Bay Area premieres of diverse, award-winning works that illuminate the multiple realities of twenty-first-century Japan.

Special additional-feature admission for neo-eiga: New Japanese Cinema: $4 all patrons.

A free program guide will be available at the screenings.

Curated by Mona Nagai. Notes by Jason Sanders.

Special additional-feature admission for neo-eiga: New Japanese Cinema: $4 all patrons.

A free program guide will be available at the screenings.

Curated by Mona Nagai. Notes by Jason Sanders.

Cosponsored by the Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco; NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association); Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley; and the Japan Society of Northern California.

A project of The Japan Foundation.

We would like to express our appreciation to Ken Nakamura, Steven Goldman, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco; Hayato Ogo, Yuko Susa Shono, Kaai Nishida, The Japan Foundation Los Angeles Office; Chi-hui Yang, Taro Goto, NAATA; Kaja Sehrt, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley; Chris Sigur, Eileen Sugai, Japan Society of Northern California; Linda Blackaby, Tod Booth, Kyoko Hirano, Frako Loden, Anne McKnight, Peter Scarlet, Julian Soler.

We also wish to thank Kiju Yoshida, Yutaka Tsuchiya, Peng Xiaolian; Machiko Komatsu, Karsten Kuestner, Micott & Basara Inc.; Yuka Komori, Bitters End, Inc.; Kaho Nakane, Open Sesame Co., Ltd.; Paul Richer, Pyramide International; Mika Umehashi, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation; Yoshio Yasui, Planet Bibliothèque de Cinéma.