2012 Eiga Sai Flyer - The Japan Foundation, Manila
2012 Eiga Sai Flyer - The Japan Foundation, Manila 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.
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eiga<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Japan</strong>ese<br />
<strong>2012</strong><br />
Film Festival<br />
In celebration of<br />
Philippines – <strong>Japan</strong><br />
Friendship Month<br />
sai<br />
© 2010 TOHO CO., LTD. / DENTSU INC. / <strong>The</strong> Asahi Shimbun Company / Sony Music Entertainment(<strong>Japan</strong>)Inc. / NIPPON SHUPPAN<br />
HANBAI INC. / HORIPRO INC. / AMUSE INC. / KDDI / Yahoo <strong>Japan</strong> Corporation / TSUTAYA Group / Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.
© 2010 TOHO CO., LTD. / DENTSU INC. / <strong>The</strong> Asahi Shimbun<br />
Company / Sony Music Entertainment(<strong>Japan</strong>)Inc. /<br />
NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI INC. / HORIPRO INC. / AMUSE<br />
INC. / KDDI / Yahoo <strong>Japan</strong> Corporation / TSUTAYA Group /<br />
Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.<br />
2011 |125min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Osamu KATAYAMA<br />
Producer: Manabu ENDO, Kouji MAEDA<br />
Cast: Shun OGURI, Masami NAGASAWA, Kuranosuke SASAKI<br />
2010 |139 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: LEE Sang-il<br />
Producer: Tomoyo NIHIRA, Genki KAWAMURA<br />
Cast: Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Eri FUKATSU, Masaki OKADA<br />
A gritty social critique, this drama is directed by Lee Sang-il, director of the multi-award winning Hula<br />
Girls. Eri Fukatsu, who won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her role,<br />
takes on challenging and heated love scenes, playing a woman (Mitsuyo) on the run with a murderer.<br />
Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) runs away after killing a woman (Hikari Mitsushima) he met on a dating<br />
website. He then meets Mitsuyo, a sales clerk. While the families of the victim and the assailant are left<br />
in agony, Mitsuyo becomes increasingly entangled in her relationship with Yuichi.<br />
Based on the popular comics by Shinichi Ishizuka, this drama spotlight is on mountain rescue<br />
operations. Oguri was a big fan of the original story, and he attempts ice wall climbing and rappelling<br />
in snow-covered mountains. His genuine performance gets across the severity and wonder of the<br />
mountains. Sanpo (Oguri), who volunteers as a mountain rescuer in the Northern Alps, has climbed the<br />
world’s famous peaks. His flaw is that he can be too easygoing, but, novice Kumi (Masami Nagasawa)<br />
from the Nagano Prefecture mountain rescue squad observes the way he works and learns that he is<br />
someone she can count on.<br />
© 2010 RAILWAYS Film Partners<br />
2010 |130 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Yoshinari NISHIKORI<br />
Executive Producer: Shuji ABE<br />
Cast: Kiichi NAKAI, Reiko TAKASHIMA, Yuika MOTOKARIYA<br />
2008 |103 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Shinobu YAGUCHI<br />
Producer: Daisuke SEKIGUCHI, Yoshino SASAKI, Shintaro HORIKAWA<br />
Cast: Seiichi TANABE, Saburo TOKITO, Haruka AYASE<br />
PEAK –<strong>The</strong> Rescuers<br />
2011 / 132 min / Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Fumihiko SORI<br />
Executive Producer: Kazuya HAMANA<br />
Cast: Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Yusuke ISEYA, Karina SHIRAKI, Teruyuki KAGAWA<br />
Villain<br />
Railways<br />
Known for its previous production, ALWAYS-Sunset on Third Street- (Always San-chome no Yuhi) and<br />
the sequel, ROBOT Communications presents another heartwarming tale on the turning point of an<br />
elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Hajime (Kiichi Nakai)<br />
is next in line as head of a prominent electronics company. He works hard and barely has time for<br />
his family. But one day, his mother in Shimane was ill, and his best friend dies in an accident. Griefstricken,<br />
Hajime returns home—where memories of his childhood came back. He had always wanted<br />
to be a train conductor and drive the local “bataden” Ichibata Electric Railway.<br />
A hit maker Shinobu Yaguchi of Waterboys and Swing Girls unfolds his favorite entertaining group<br />
drama in this latest movie—Happy Flight which cannot be bundled in a usual category of aviation<br />
movies characterized as panic movies.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story deals with flight No.1980 bound for Honolulu from <strong>Japan</strong>. For Kazuhiro Suzuki (Seiichi<br />
Tanabe), the co-pilot, this is the final test to become a captain. For Etsuko <strong>Sai</strong>to (Haruka Ayase), a<br />
newly recruited cabin attendant, it is a memorable debut on an international flight. However, the<br />
aircraft hits a bird after takeoff and is forced to turn back. Faced with yet another challenge - difficult<br />
landing conditions due to an approaching typhoon; finally, they managed to overcome with the help<br />
of the operation control center. <strong>The</strong> young crew in aviation-related occupations grew in experience<br />
after this bittersweet but fulfilling flight.<br />
© 2011 ASAO TAKAMORI, TETSUYA CHIBA /<br />
”ASHITANO JOE” Film Partners<br />
PG<br />
12<br />
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Happy Flight<br />
© 2011 TOHO CO., LTD. / TV ASAHI CORPORATION /<br />
SHOGAKUKAN INC. / Tristone Entertainment INC. /<br />
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. / KDDI /<br />
HAKUHODO DY MEDIA PARTNERS INC. / THE MAINICHI<br />
NEWSPAPERS / NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI<br />
INC. / Asahi Broadcasting Nagano Co., Ltd.<br />
© 2005 Shinichi Ishizuka / Shogakukan<br />
© 2008 FUJITELEVISION / ALTAMIRA PICTURES / TOHO<br />
/ DENTSU<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe<br />
A live-action adaptation of Takamori Asao and Chiba Tetsuya’s eponymous comic, regarded as a<br />
brilliant achievement in <strong>Japan</strong>ese manga history. Two boxing rivals engage in a fierce battle that<br />
will determine of their fate. <strong>The</strong> director is Fumihiko Sori, who helmed the sports manga adaptation<br />
Ping Pong. In the late 1960s, a slum-dwelling delinquent named Joe Yabuki (Tomohisa Yamashita) is<br />
scouted by former boxer Danpei Tange (Teruyuki Kagawa) for his exceptional pugilistic ability, but<br />
he gets into trouble and is sent to a juvenile reformatory where he meets professional fighter Toru<br />
Rikiishi (Yusuke Iseya).<br />
Film rating is based on EIGA RINRI IINKAI a.k.a. EIRIN (Film Classification and Rating Committee)<br />
G
2011 | 128 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA<br />
Producer: Kenzo ABE, Masaya SHIBUSAWA, Takahiro KAWADA<br />
Cast: Sho SAKURAI, Aoi MIYAZAKI, Jun KANAME<br />
Medical drama based on the debut novel by practicing physician Sosuke Natsukawa. It is a penetrating<br />
look at healthcare in <strong>Japan</strong>’s provinces through the personal growth of an honest young doctor. It is<br />
acclaimed as the film soundtrack debut for the blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii. Ichito (Sho Sakurai) is an<br />
internist at a small hospital in Shinshu that needs physicians, and handles his heavy workload with<br />
support from his photographer wife Haruna (Aoi Miyazaki). One day he encounters Azumi (Mariko<br />
Kaga), who has terminal cancer, and he starts questioning the very existence of medicine.<br />
© 2010 Fuji Television Network, Inc. / Sunrise Inc. /<br />
Dentsu Inc. / Aniplex Inc. / Sony Music Entertainment<br />
(<strong>Japan</strong>) Inc. / Toho Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.<br />
2010 | 129 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Yoshimitsu MORITA<br />
Producer: Masayuki MOTOMOCHI<br />
Cast: Masato SAKAI, Yukie NAKAMA, Keiko MATSUZAKA<br />
A film adaptation of the book by Michifumi Isoda, in which he paints a picture of life in the final<br />
days of the Tokugawa shogunate, based on his painstaking analysis of the household accounts left<br />
behind by a low ranking samurai. Director Yoshimitsu Morita, portrays the inner workings of a samurai<br />
household fighting to tighten finances. <strong>The</strong> Inoyama family has been in the service of Kaga clan as<br />
expert accountants and reckoners. <strong>The</strong> 8th head of the Inoyama family, Naoyuki (Masato Sakai), is<br />
so phenomenally gifted in numbers that he was called “abacus maniac.” To cope with the increasing<br />
expenses that come with trying to move up, he works together with his wife Koma (Yukie Nakama)<br />
and family to do all they can to economize.<br />
© 2010 “Permanent Nobara” Film Partners<br />
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2011 | 100 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Takashi MIIKE<br />
Cast: Seishiro KATO, Roi HAYASHI, Futa KIMURA<br />
In His Chart<br />
2010 | 126 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Keiichi HARA<br />
Animation Director: Masahiro SATO<br />
Voice: Kazato TOMIZAWA, Aoi MIYAZAKI, Akina MINAMI<br />
Ninja Kids<br />
Colorful<br />
Directed by Keiichi Hara, highly regarded for Crayon Shin-chan Arashi o Yobu Moretsu Otona Teikoku<br />
no Gyakushu. His realistic style as seen in Summer Days with Coo (Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi) is<br />
taken one step further, and creates a unique world where the backdrop is so real you would think it<br />
might have been shot live. Someone has just died, but his soul is put into the body of Makoto Kobayashi<br />
(voice: Kazato Tomizawa), a boy in junior high school who has just committed suicide. Regaining life,<br />
the soul inhabits the boy’s body and soon finds the true reason behind his suicide.<br />
Abacus And Sword<br />
2010 | 126 min | Color | 35mm<br />
Director: Daihachi YOSHIDA<br />
Producer: Sei MATSUMOTO, Yuji ISHIDA,<br />
Yutaka SUZUKI, Yosuke NAKAMURA, Shigeo FUJITA<br />
Cast: Miho KANNO, Yosuke EGUCHI, Eiko KOIKE<br />
Permanent Nobara<br />
This is based on popular manga artist Rieko <strong>Sai</strong>bara’s manga series. As in his FUNUKE Show Some Love,<br />
You Losers! (Funukedomo, Kanashimi no Ai wo Misero), director Daihachi Yoshida’s films have all sorts<br />
of lovable, quirky characters. In this love story for grown-ups, woman’s pursuit for love never dies and<br />
Yoshida portrays such feminine strength and compassion with humor. Naoko (Miho Kanno) returns<br />
home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako (Mari Natsuki) runs the only beauty parlor<br />
in town—meeting place for lamenting bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst<br />
to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima (Yosuke Eguchi).<br />
A live-action adaptation of Soubei Amako’s cute ninja action manga. A popular animated<br />
television series, it presents the comical slapstick antics of a group of boys training to be<br />
elite ninjas. Director Takashi Miike works in a diverse array of genres, from violent works<br />
to family films. Rantaro (Seishiro Kato), a first grader at Ninja Academy, spends his days<br />
with his fellow students Shinbee (Futa Kimura) and Kirimaru (Roi Hayashi) making all sorts<br />
of blunders. One day, an assassin turns up at the home of fourth grader Takamaru (Takuya<br />
Mizoguchi).<br />
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© 2011 Live Action Nintama-rantarou<br />
the Movie committee
SHANG CINEPLEX CINEMA 4<br />
EDSA, Mandaluyong City<br />
JULY 5 (Thursday)<br />
Opening Night by Invitation at Cinema 2<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 6 (Friday)<br />
Railways 2:00 PM<br />
Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 7 (Saturday)<br />
Ninja Kids 2:00 PM<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM<br />
Happy Flight 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 8 (Sunday)<br />
Colorful 2:00 PM<br />
In His Chart 4:30 PM<br />
Abacus and Sword 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 9 (Monday)<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 2:00 PM<br />
Railways 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 10 (Tuesday)<br />
Happy Flight 2:00 PM<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM<br />
Colorful 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 11 (Wednesday)<br />
Ninja Kids 2:00 PM<br />
Permanent Nobara 4:30 PM<br />
In His Chart 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 12 (Thursday)<br />
Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM<br />
Railways 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 13 (Friday)<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 2:00 PM<br />
Happy Flight 4:30 PM<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 14 (Saturday)<br />
Permanent Nobara 2:00 PM<br />
Ninja Kids 4:30 PM<br />
In His Chart 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 15 (Sunday)<br />
Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM<br />
Colorful 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
GAISANO SOUTH CITI MALL<br />
Davao City<br />
JULY 20 (Friday)<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 4:30 PM<br />
In His Chart 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 21 (Saturday)<br />
Railways 11:00 AM<br />
Happy Flight 2:00 PM<br />
Ninja Kids 4:30 PM<br />
Permanent Nobara 7:00 PM<br />
JULY 22 (Sunday)<br />
Colorful 11:00 AM<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 2:00 PM<br />
Abacus and Sword 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
Screening Schedules<br />
AYALA CENTER CINEMA 4<br />
Cebu City<br />
AUGUST 7 (Tuesday)<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 8 (Wednesday)<br />
Abacus and Sword 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 9 (Thursday)<br />
Railways 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 10 (Friday)<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 11 (Saturday)<br />
Ninja Kids 1:30 PM<br />
In His Chart 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 12(Sunday)<br />
Colorful 1:30 PM<br />
Happy Flight 4:30 PM<br />
Permanent Nobara 7:00 PM<br />
UP FILM INSTITUTE<br />
UP-Diliman, Quezon City<br />
AUGUST 15 (Wednesday)<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 2:00 PM<br />
Abacus and Sword 4:30 PM<br />
Railways 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 16 (Thursday)<br />
Ninja Kids 2:00 PM<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM<br />
In His Chart 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 17 (Friday)<br />
Colorful 2:00 PM<br />
Happy Flight 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 18 (Saturday)<br />
Permanent Nobara 2:00 PM<br />
Tomorrow’s Joe 4:30 PM<br />
Railways 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 20 (Monday)<br />
Abacus and Sword 2:00 PM<br />
In His Chart 4:30 PM<br />
Permanent Nobara 7:00 PM<br />
AUGUST 21 (Tuesday)<br />
PEAK – <strong>The</strong> Rescuers 2:00 PM<br />
Colorful 4:30 PM<br />
Villain 7:00 PM<br />
For deTaIls, conTacT:<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Japan</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
<strong>Manila</strong> (JFM) located<br />
at the 23rd Floor, Pacific<br />
Star Building, Sen. Gil<br />
Puyat Avenue, cor. Makati<br />
Avenue, Makati City 1226<br />
Tel: (02) 811-6155 to 58<br />
Fax: (02) 811-6153<br />
Email: email@jfmo.org.ph