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BECK NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
saTURDay, OCTObER 16 | 10:00 Pm | REgal DOlE TUEsDay, OCTObER 19 | 8:30 Pm | REgal DOlE jaPan 2010 | W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs, jaPanEsE | 141 m
DIRECTOR: Yukihiko Tsutsumi sCREEnWRITER: Tetsuya Oishi PRODUCERs: Naoto Fujimura, Shigeaki Yoshida CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Satoru Karasawa CasT: Shiori Kutsuna, Takeru Satoh, Hiro Mizushima
Ryusuke is an ultra talented young guitarist who has recently returned from New York. Koyuki is a bored and bullied student. One fateful day, Koyuki helps rescue Ryusuke’s dog, inspiring Ryusuke to present Koyuki with his precious vintage guitar. The two decide to form a band, calling themselves Beck, after Ryusuke’s pooch. The band is an instant hit with the club crowd, but big-time success proves elusive. When they are offered a chance to play at a rock festival, they finally get their shot, but at what cost?
BECK is a live-action adaptation of the popular anime BECK: MONGOLIAN CHOP SQUAD, based on the blockbuster manga by Harold Sakuishi. Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi (20TH CENTURY BOYS), the film features a hot young cast including Takeru Sato as Koyuki and Hiro Mizushima as Ryusuke. BECK promises to be the J-Rock hit of the year!
CONFESSIONS
KOKUHAKU HAWAII PREMIERE fRIDay, OCTObER 15 | 10:30 Pm | REgal DOlE
jaPan 2010 | jaPanEsE W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 107 m DIRECTOR: Tetsuya Nakashima sCREEnWRITER: Tetsuya Nakashima PRODUCERs:
Genki Nakashima CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Shoichi Ato, Atsushi Ozawa CasT: Takako Matsu, Masaki Okada, Yoshino Kimura
Reigning in his impulse to create surreal candy-colored worlds full of chaos and confusion, director Tetsuya Nakashima (KAMIKAZE GIRLS, MEMORIES OF MATSUKO) opts instead for an intense drama throbbing with dark emotions. Television heroine, Takako Matsu, plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is murdered. Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom, only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter’s death. No one believes her, but she decides that it’s time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty. And it’s true: they are guilty, but not of the crime she thinks they committed.
Nakashima wrote this movie with the idea of turning his lead actresses image on its head, and he said he would not shoot it without her. To select the 33 students in her class he auditioned over 1000 Japanese teenagers. The result is a richly polished, deeply disturbing, emotionally devastating film that we are proud to introduce to American audiences.
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DOGS IN SPACE / LOVE NOISE
HANAMIZUKI / THE HOUSEMAID
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