2012 Eiga Sai Flyer - The Japan Foundation, Manila

eiga 

The Japanese 

2012 

Film Festival 

In celebration of 

Philippines – Japan 

Friendship Month 

sai 

© 2010 TOHO CO., LTD. / DENTSU INC. / The Asahi Shimbun Company / Sony Music Entertainment(Japan)Inc. / NIPPON SHUPPAN 

HANBAI INC. / HORIPRO INC. / AMUSE INC. / KDDI / Yahoo Japan Corporation / TSUTAYA Group / Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.

© 2010 TOHO CO., LTD. / DENTSU INC. / The Asahi Shimbun 

Company / Sony Music Entertainment(Japan)Inc. / 

NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI INC. / HORIPRO INC. / AMUSE 

INC. / KDDI / Yahoo Japan Corporation / TSUTAYA Group / 

Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. 

2011 |125min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Osamu KATAYAMA 

Producer: Manabu ENDO, Kouji MAEDA 

Cast: Shun OGURI, Masami NAGASAWA, Kuranosuke SASAKI 

2010 |139 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: LEE Sang-il 

Producer: Tomoyo NIHIRA, Genki KAWAMURA 

Cast: Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Eri FUKATSU, Masaki OKADA 

A gritty social critique, this drama is directed by Lee Sang-il, director of the multi-award winning Hula 

Girls. Eri Fukatsu, who won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her role, 

takes on challenging and heated love scenes, playing a woman (Mitsuyo) on the run with a murderer. 

Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) runs away after killing a woman (Hikari Mitsushima) he met on a dating 

website. He then meets Mitsuyo, a sales clerk. While the families of the victim and the assailant are left 

in agony, Mitsuyo becomes increasingly entangled in her relationship with Yuichi. 

Based on the popular comics by Shinichi Ishizuka, this drama spotlight is on mountain rescue 

operations. Oguri was a big fan of the original story, and he attempts ice wall climbing and rappelling 

in snow-covered mountains. His genuine performance gets across the severity and wonder of the 

mountains. Sanpo (Oguri), who volunteers as a mountain rescuer in the Northern Alps, has climbed the 

world’s famous peaks. His flaw is that he can be too easygoing, but, novice Kumi (Masami Nagasawa) 

from the Nagano Prefecture mountain rescue squad observes the way he works and learns that he is 

someone she can count on. 

© 2010 RAILWAYS Film Partners 

2010 |130 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Yoshinari NISHIKORI 

Executive Producer: Shuji ABE 

Cast: Kiichi NAKAI, Reiko TAKASHIMA, Yuika MOTOKARIYA 

2008 |103 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Shinobu YAGUCHI 

Producer: Daisuke SEKIGUCHI, Yoshino SASAKI, Shintaro HORIKAWA 

Cast: Seiichi TANABE, Saburo TOKITO, Haruka AYASE 

PEAK –The Rescuers 

2011 / 132 min / Color | 35mm 

Director: Fumihiko SORI 

Executive Producer: Kazuya HAMANA 

Cast: Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Yusuke ISEYA, Karina SHIRAKI, Teruyuki KAGAWA 

Villain 

Railways 

Known for its previous production, ALWAYS-Sunset on Third Street- (Always San-chome no Yuhi) and 

the sequel, ROBOT Communications presents another heartwarming tale on the turning point of an 

elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Hajime (Kiichi Nakai) 

is next in line as head of a prominent electronics company. He works hard and barely has time for 

his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane was ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Griefstricken, 

Hajime returns home—where memories of his childhood came back. He had always wanted 

to be a train conductor and drive the local “bataden” Ichibata Electric Railway. 

A hit maker Shinobu Yaguchi of Waterboys and Swing Girls unfolds his favorite entertaining group 

drama in this latest movie—Happy Flight which cannot be bundled in a usual category of aviation 

movies characterized as panic movies. 

The story deals with flight No.1980 bound for Honolulu from Japan. For Kazuhiro Suzuki (Seiichi 

Tanabe), the co-pilot, this is the final test to become a captain. For Etsuko Saito (Haruka Ayase), a 

newly recruited cabin attendant, it is a memorable debut on an international flight. However, the 

aircraft hits a bird after takeoff and is forced to turn back. Faced with yet another challenge - difficult 

landing conditions due to an approaching typhoon; finally, they managed to overcome with the help 

of the operation control center. The young crew in aviation-related occupations grew in experience 

after this bittersweet but fulfilling flight. 

© 2011 ASAO TAKAMORI, TETSUYA CHIBA / 

”ASHITANO JOE” Film Partners 

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Happy Flight 

© 2011 TOHO CO., LTD. / TV ASAHI CORPORATION / 

SHOGAKUKAN INC. / Tristone Entertainment INC. / 

Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. / KDDI / 

HAKUHODO DY MEDIA PARTNERS INC. / THE MAINICHI 

NEWSPAPERS / NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI 

INC. / Asahi Broadcasting Nagano Co., Ltd. 

© 2005 Shinichi Ishizuka / Shogakukan 

© 2008 FUJITELEVISION / ALTAMIRA PICTURES / TOHO 

/ DENTSU 

Tomorrow’s Joe 

A live-action adaptation of Takamori Asao and Chiba Tetsuya’s eponymous comic, regarded as a 

brilliant achievement in Japanese manga history. Two boxing rivals engage in a fierce battle that 

will determine of their fate. The director is Fumihiko Sori, who helmed the sports manga adaptation 

Ping Pong. In the late 1960s, a slum-dwelling delinquent named Joe Yabuki (Tomohisa Yamashita) is 

scouted by former boxer Danpei Tange (Teruyuki Kagawa) for his exceptional pugilistic ability, but 

he gets into trouble and is sent to a juvenile reformatory where he meets professional fighter Toru 

Rikiishi (Yusuke Iseya). 

Film rating is based on EIGA RINRI IINKAI a.k.a. EIRIN (Film Classification and Rating Committee) 

G

2011 | 128 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA 

Producer: Kenzo ABE, Masaya SHIBUSAWA, Takahiro KAWADA 

Cast: Sho SAKURAI, Aoi MIYAZAKI, Jun KANAME 

Medical drama based on the debut novel by practicing physician Sosuke Natsukawa. It is a penetrating 

look at healthcare in Japan’s provinces through the personal growth of an honest young doctor. It is 

acclaimed as the film soundtrack debut for the blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii. Ichito (Sho Sakurai) is an 

internist at a small hospital in Shinshu that needs physicians, and handles his heavy workload with 

support from his photographer wife Haruna (Aoi Miyazaki). One day he encounters Azumi (Mariko 

Kaga), who has terminal cancer, and he starts questioning the very existence of medicine. 

© 2010 Fuji Television Network, Inc. / Sunrise Inc. / 

Dentsu Inc. / Aniplex Inc. / Sony Music Entertainment 

(Japan) Inc. / Toho Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 

2010 | 129 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Yoshimitsu MORITA 

Producer: Masayuki MOTOMOCHI 

Cast: Masato SAKAI, Yukie NAKAMA, Keiko MATSUZAKA 

A film adaptation of the book by Michifumi Isoda, in which he paints a picture of life in the final 

days of the Tokugawa shogunate, based on his painstaking analysis of the household accounts left 

behind by a low ranking samurai. Director Yoshimitsu Morita, portrays the inner workings of a samurai 

household fighting to tighten finances. The Inoyama family has been in the service of Kaga clan as 

expert accountants and reckoners. The 8th head of the Inoyama family, Naoyuki (Masato Sakai), is 

so phenomenally gifted in numbers that he was called “abacus maniac.” To cope with the increasing 

expenses that come with trying to move up, he works together with his wife Koma (Yukie Nakama) 

and family to do all they can to economize. 

© 2010 “Permanent Nobara” Film Partners 

G 

G 

2011 | 100 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Takashi MIIKE 

Cast: Seishiro KATO, Roi HAYASHI, Futa KIMURA 

In His Chart 

2010 | 126 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Keiichi HARA 

Animation Director: Masahiro SATO 

Voice: Kazato TOMIZAWA, Aoi MIYAZAKI, Akina MINAMI 

Ninja Kids 

Colorful 

Directed by Keiichi Hara, highly regarded for Crayon Shin-chan Arashi o Yobu Moretsu Otona Teikoku 

no Gyakushu. His realistic style as seen in Summer Days with Coo (Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi) is 

taken one step further, and creates a unique world where the backdrop is so real you would think it 

might have been shot live. Someone has just died, but his soul is put into the body of Makoto Kobayashi 

(voice: Kazato Tomizawa), a boy in junior high school who has just committed suicide. Regaining life, 

the soul inhabits the boy’s body and soon finds the true reason behind his suicide. 

Abacus And Sword 

2010 | 126 min | Color | 35mm 

Director: Daihachi YOSHIDA 

Producer: Sei MATSUMOTO, Yuji ISHIDA, 

Yutaka SUZUKI, Yosuke NAKAMURA, Shigeo FUJITA 

Cast: Miho KANNO, Yosuke EGUCHI, Eiko KOIKE 

Permanent Nobara 

This is based on popular manga artist Rieko Saibara’s manga series. As in his FUNUKE Show Some Love, 

You Losers! (Funukedomo, Kanashimi no Ai wo Misero), director Daihachi Yoshida’s films have all sorts 

of lovable, quirky characters. In this love story for grown-ups, woman’s pursuit for love never dies and 

Yoshida portrays such feminine strength and compassion with humor. Naoko (Miho Kanno) returns 

home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako (Mari Natsuki) runs the only beauty parlor 

in town—meeting place for lamenting bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst 

to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima (Yosuke Eguchi). 

A live-action adaptation of Soubei Amako’s cute ninja action manga. A popular animated 

television series, it presents the comical slapstick antics of a group of boys training to be 

elite ninjas. Director Takashi Miike works in a diverse array of genres, from violent works 

to family films. Rantaro (Seishiro Kato), a first grader at Ninja Academy, spends his days 

with his fellow students Shinbee (Futa Kimura) and Kirimaru (Roi Hayashi) making all sorts 

of blunders. One day, an assassin turns up at the home of fourth grader Takamaru (Takuya 

Mizoguchi). 

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© 2011 Live Action Nintama-rantarou 

the Movie committee

SHANG CINEPLEX CINEMA 4 

EDSA, Mandaluyong City 

JULY 5 (Thursday) 

Opening Night by Invitation at Cinema 2 

Villain 7:00 PM 

JULY 6 (Friday) 

Railways 2:00 PM 

Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM 

PEAK – The Rescuers 7:00 PM 

JULY 7 (Saturday) 

Ninja Kids 2:00 PM 

Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM 

Happy Flight 7:00 PM 

JULY 8 (Sunday) 

Colorful 2:00 PM 

In His Chart 4:30 PM 

Abacus and Sword 7:00 PM 

JULY 9 (Monday) 




JULY 10 (Tuesday) 




JULY 11 (Wednesday) 




JULY 12 (Thursday) 
















GAISANO SOUTH CITI MALL 

Davao City 





Railways 11:00 AM 





Colorful 11:00 AM 




Screening Schedules 

AYALA CENTER CINEMA 4 

Cebu City 

AUGUST 7 (Tuesday) 


AUGUST 8 (Wednesday) 


AUGUST 9 (Thursday) 


AUGUST 10 (Friday) 


AUGUST 11 (Saturday) 




AUGUST 12(Sunday) 




UP FILM INSTITUTE 

UP-Diliman, Quezon City 

AUGUST 15 (Wednesday) 




AUGUST 16 (Thursday) 




AUGUST 17 (Friday) 




AUGUST 18 (Saturday) 




AUGUST 20 (Monday) 




AUGUST 21 (Tuesday) 




For deTaIls, conTacT: 

The Japan Foundation, 

Manila (JFM) located 

at the 23rd Floor, Pacific 

Star Building, Sen. Gil 

Puyat Avenue, cor. Makati 

Avenue, Makati City 1226 

Tel: (02) 811-6155 to 58 

Fax: (02) 811-6153 

Email: email@jfmo.org.ph

2012 Eiga Sai Flyer - The Japan Foundation, Manila

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